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    1. "We are the planet": incipient solidarities in Russell Banks's Continental Drift

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Entin,Joseph (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Mar 2012
    Published:
    Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    WorkingUSA
    Journal Title Details:
    15(1) : 51-66
    Notes:
    Explores the way writers address the formation and fate of the contemporary American working class in an age of neoliberal globalization. Specifically, the essay examines Russell Banks's 1985 novel Continental Drift, which interweaves the stories of two characters who pull up stakes and head to Florida in search of a better life: an oil furnace repair man from New Hampshire and a young, single mother from Haiti.

    5. <A Small Gathering of Bones, by Patricia Powell> (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Adisa,Opal Palmer (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Summer, 1996
    Published:
    Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    African American Review
    Journal Title Details:
    30(2) : 322-324
    Notes:
    A novel about how the plight of gays in Jamaica is linked to an international community through the interjection of the AIDS epidemic

    6. <Beyond the Limbo Silence>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hathaway,Heather (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall, 2000
    Published:
    Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    African American Review
    Journal Title Details:
    34(3) : 552-553
    Notes:
    Hathaway describes the characters and plot of this novel, which is set in the Civil Rights era and focuses on the experiences of a Trinidadian immigrant who has come to the U. S. on a scholarship to a small, Catholic college in the Midwest