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    1. Crossing Stories: Circulating Citizenships in an Americas du Golfe

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hudson,Sara (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2011
    Published:
    Connecticut: Yale University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    667 p., The author locates New Orleans as a cultural and cartographic heart linking the Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America into what she calls Américas du Golfe. The author traces flows of cultures and citizens(hips) through New Orleans and across national borders: physically, culturally, economically, visually, linguistically, and musically, challenging traditional nation-based scholarly frameworks, and reorienting New Orleans as a Gulf, rather than American, city.

    2. Vodou et evangelisation

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Paulemon,Mesina (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Language:
    French
    Publication Date:
    2011
    Published:
    Canada: Universite de Sherbrooke
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    237 p., Arrivé en Haïti avec les Noirs d'Afrique aux 15e et 16e siècles, le vodou est depuis ce temps un élément de la culture haïtienne. Il y a aujourd'hui une coexistence des catholiques, des protestants avec les vodouisants d'où le problème de syncrétisme qui caractérise le vodou. Le silence entretenu à son sujet, dans divers milieux et pour. différentes raisons, renforce les préjugés vieux de plusieurs siècles et rend difficile l'évangélisation. Évangéliser la personne vodouisante suppose de bien connaître sa perception de Dieu et les valeurs véhiculées par le vodou. Un sondage auprès des jeunes et d'adultes a enrichi mes connaissances sur le vodou et les moyens d'une évangélisation en Haïti.

    3. Identity in motion: The symbiotic connection between migration and identity in four 20th century novels by African diasporic women writers

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Sampson-Choma,Tosha Kabara (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2011
    Published:
    Lincoln, Nebraska: The University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    This dissertation examines the migratory experiences of the protagonists from four African diasporic novels: Fruit of the Lemon by Andrea Levy (1999), Kehinde by Buchi Emecheta (1994), Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (1994), and The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982). When analyzed comparatively these texts demonstrate that a completely integrated identity (that merges two cultures) is contingent upon a return to the protagonist's cultural roots either by the protagonist herself or someone who is closely aligned with her. The protagonist or her representative must travel to her ancestral homeland and in the process develop a value system that reflects the duality of her identity.