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Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Mehta,Brinda J. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
27(2) : 542-560
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Murdoch,Adlai H. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
26(1) : 252-272
Notes:
"Any attempt to trace the many resonances that historically have been attached to the creole figure in Caribbean literature and culture will be inflected by the long and pervading presence of colonialism in the region and its attendant corollary of hierarchical social separation and difference based on perceptions of race. Indeed, the ambivalent desire and subjective misrecognition that lay at the heart of historical writing about colonialism and racism have tended to frame the issues of monstrosity and exclusion that produced the creole as part and parcel of wider colonial discourses. Thus, the shifting and increasingly unstable inscription of the creole figure echoes, in a certain sense, certain critical ambiguities of politics and temporality that color the colonial encounter and its aftermath. Specifically, in the contemporary English- and French-speaking Caribbean, the multiplicity, displacement, and creative instability that undergird creole-driven theories of postcolonial performance have supplanted this category's suspect beginnings as colonialism's model for the fearfully unnameable and unplaceable hybrid monstrosity, and now increasingly shape the substance of much of the artistic and creative work emerging from the region." --The Author
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Becel,Pascale (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1995
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
18(3) : 608-615
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Beckles,Hilary (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1997
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
20(4) : 777-789
Notes:
"C.L..R. James' 1938 seminal text, The Black Jacobins, and Eric Williams' 1944 tour de force, Capitalism and Slavery, constitute much more than foundational works in West Indian nationalist historiography. Both authors, born in colonial Trinidad and writing Caribbean history within its Atlantic context, made significant contributions to development discourse within the traditions of Enlightenment Idealism. As critical realists they considered popular historiography indispensable to any attempt to root philosophical ideals within recognizable terms of everyday living. In The Black Jacobins, James documents the struggles of the enslaved peoples of St. Dominique, the mercantile showpiece of French colonial capitalism in the West Indies for freedom and social justice. In addition, he details the transformation of this successful anti-slavery rebellion into something much more elaborate in terms of Atlantic history--the creation of Haiti, the Caribbean's first nation-state. In Capitalism and Slavery, Williams expands and develops the paradigm of African labor enslavement and European capital liberation, first outlined by James in The Black Jacobins, that became the basis of the revolutionary reorganization of productivity for European economic development." (author)
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Chinosole (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Winter, 1995
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
18(3) : 593-601
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Cobham,Rhonda (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 2002
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
25(3) : 868-884
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Cottenet-Hage,Madeleine (Author) and Meehan,Kevin (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Winter, 1992
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
15(1) : 75-89
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Erickson,John D. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Winter, 1992
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
15(1) : 119-130
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Gauch,Suzanne (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 2002
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
25(3) : 910-919
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Gikandi,Simon (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1991
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
14(3) : 727-736
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Gosson,Renee K. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Winter, 2003
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
26(1) : 219-234
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Gregg,Veronica Marie (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 2002
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
25(3) : 920-937
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Hewitt,Leah D. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1995
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
18(3) : 641-651
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Holcomb,Gary E. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 2002
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
25(3) : 969-976
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
King,Jane (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 2002
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
25(3) : 885-909
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Lima,Maria Helena (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 2002
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
25(3) : 857-867
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Luis,William (Author) and James Maraniss (Translator)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Fall, 1992
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
15(4) : 1099-1101
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Morrison,Anthea (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1995
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
18(3) : 616-625
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Mullen,Harryette (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Spring, 1999
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
22(2) : 417-426
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Murdoch,H. Adlai (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1995
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
18(3) : 579-592
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Nyatetu-Waigwa,Wangari wa (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1995
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
18(3) : 551-564
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Paravisini-Gebert,Lizabeth (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 2000
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
23(3) : 983-986
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Rosello,Mireille (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1995
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
18(3) : 565-578
Notes:
"Condé's work seems to elicit a critical discourse saturated with spatial metaphors or reflections on the theme of space and travel. Critics state that is difficult to separate Condé's narrative from her concepts of home, homeland, ancestry." (Rosello)
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Scarboro,Ann Armstrong (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Winter, 1992
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
15(1) : 12-29
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Scott,Helen (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 2002
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
25(3) : 977-989
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Smith,Ian (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 2002
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
25(3) : 801-820
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Smock,Ann (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1995
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
18(3) : 668-680
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Springfield,Consuelo Lopez (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1994
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
17(3) : 701-714
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Tiffin,Helen (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Fall, 1993
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
16(4) : 909-921
Notes:
"Recent West Indian literature by women offers a locus of debate over the retrieval of the body from and within western discursive erasure. This erasure of the female body and its possible reclamation is of course central to contemporary feminist debate, and has its own genealogy within feminist discourse. My interest in this question, however, is in the ways in which colonialism's discursive and institutional apparatuses obliterated and continue to obliterate the colonised (specifically female) body, and the counter-colonial strategies by which this 'lost' body might be reclaimed. In their fiction Erna Brodber and Jamaica Kincaid anatomize the body's erasure under a colonialist scriptive drive and explore potentials for the re/cognition of corporeality and sexuality." (author)
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Wilson,Elizabeth Betty (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Winter, 1992
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
15(1) : 179-189
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Anatol,Giselle Liza (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 2002
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
25(3) : 938-953
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Broeck,Sabine (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 2002
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
25(3) : 821-843
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Chamoiseau,Patrick (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Spring, 1991
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
14(2) : 389-395
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Cobham,Rhonda (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Winter, 1993
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
16(1) : 44-64
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Essar,Dennis F. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Fall, 1999
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
22(4) : 930-946
Notes:
A critical look at the works of fiction of Haitian expatriate author Dany Laferrire, specifically his willingness to mix himself up into his characters without any strict adherence to factual truth of situations
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
MacDonald-Smythe,Antonia (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Winter, 2005
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
28(1) : 88
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Matos,Nicole C. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 2002
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
25(3) : 844-856
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Moudileno,Lydie (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1995
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
18(3) : 626-640
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Murdoch,H. Adlai (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Spring, 1990
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
13(2) : 325-340
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Smith,Arlette M. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Spring, 1991
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
14(2) : 381-388
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Smith,Michelle (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1995
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
18(3) : 602-607
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Soestwohner,Bettina (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1995
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
18(3) : 690-706
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Velez,Diana L. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1994
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
17(3) : 826-833
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Kutzinski,Vera M. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
Baton Rouge, La.: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
31(10) : 161-362
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Tiffin,Helen (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
October, 1993
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
16(4) : 909-921
Notes:
The erasure and denial of the female body and of female sexuality in the fiction of Erna Brodber and Jamaica Kincaid represent the erasure and denial of the colonized Caribbeans by their European colonizers. The female characters of both Brodber and Kincaid, however, retrieve their bodies through various means, from education to a realization of the power of their sexuality. This retrieval of the female body symbolizes freedom of the Caribbean body from colonization.
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Duvivier,Sandra C. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Fall, 2008
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
31(4) : 1104-1121
Notes:
Examines the book Violated by Guitele Jeudy Rahill and the film Dancehall Queen directed by Don Letts. It sites that both works explore the politics of black female sexuality related to upward mobility and economic survival in Caribbean settings. It also examines female sexuality as marketplace and analyzes the use of the black female body for mobility purposes.
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Ngate,Jonathan (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1986
Published:
Baton Rouge, LA: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
9 : 553-563