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    1. Calypso Jews: Holocaust Refugees in the Caribbean Literary Imagination

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Cassteel,Sarah Phillips (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2013-10
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture & History
    Journal Title Details:
    19(2) : 1-26
    Notes:
    A literary criticism is presented on the books "Land of the Living," by John Hearne and "Mr. Potter," by Jamaica Kincaid. Particular focus is given to the portrayal of Jewish Holocaust refugees to the Caribbean Area within the aforementioned Caribbean literature, including the relationship between Jews and black Caribbean people.

    2. The Transnational Frequency of Radio Connectivity in Langston Hughes's 1940s Poetics

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Neigh,Janet (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2013-04
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Modernism/Modernity
    Journal Title Details:
    20(2) : 265-285
    Notes:
    The article critiques several poems by African American poet of the Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes, including "Ballad of Margie Polite," "Broadcast to the West Indies" and "Good Morning." Hughes' depiction of transnational solidarity between African Americans of Harlem, New York City, New York and blacks of the West Indies, including his use of an imaginary radio broadcast to portray this theme in the poem "Broadcast to the West Indies," is discussed.

    4. <Negritude and Literary Criticism: The History and Theory of 'Negro-African' Literature in French, by Belinda Elizabeth Jack>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Arnold,A. James (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1998
    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:
    32(2) : 336-337

    5. West Indian Prose Fiction in the Sixties

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Brathwaite,Edward Kamau (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    September, 1971
    Published:
    Chicago: Johnson Pub. Co
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Black World
    Journal Title Details:
    20(11) : 15-29
    Notes:
    A Review and critical discussion of the West Indian prose fiction in the sixties by one of the best-known poets of the Caribbean

    6. Masks of the Blacks: A Few Hunches on the Presence of Cuban Blacks in Contemporary Cuban Narratives

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Casamayor Cisneros,Odette (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2002
    Published:
    Paris: Mouton
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Cahiers d'etudes Africaines
    Journal Title Details:
    42(1) : 7-29
    Notes:
    Although discussions of race disappeared from Cuban literature after the revolution of 1959, they reappeared as a result of Cuba's difficult economic situation in the 1980's

    7. Sketching a Literature from the French Antilles: From Negritude to Creolite

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Conde,Maryse (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall, 1996
    Published:
    Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire
    Journal Title Details:
    1(1) : 138-163
    Notes:
    A folktale told by the islanders of Guadeloupe and Martinique is relayed and discussed as having all the makings of a myth of origin

    9. Black Women Writers Visit Cuba

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Cortez,Jayne (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    July/August, 1985
    Published:
    Oakland, CA: Black World Foundation
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Black Scholar
    Journal Title Details:
    16(4) : 61
    Notes:
    Cortez' article is part of a Special issue on black literature.