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2. Postcolonial ghosts (Fantômes post-coloniaux)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Joseph-Vilain,Mélanie (Editor), Misrahi-Barak,Judith (Editor), and Turcotte,Gerry (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Essays from an international conference held at Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier III, in November 2007, organised by the Cerpac (Centre d'étude et de recherches sur les pays du Commonwealth/Research Centre on the Commonwealth)., 481 p., Includes Anthony Carrigan's "Haunted places, development, and opposition in Kamau Brathwaite's The Namsetoura papers," Maurizio Calbi's "Writing with ghosts : Shakespearean spectrality in Derek Walcott's A branch of the Blue Nile," Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère's "Rattling Perrault's dry bones : Nalo Hopkinson's literary voodoo in Skin folk," Prudence Layne's "Reincarnating Legba : Caribbean writers at the crossroads," Timothy Weiss' "The living and the dead : translational identities in Wilson Harris's The tree of the sun," and Kerry-Jane Wallart's "The ghost in Wilson Harris's The Guyana quartet : matter that matters."
3. Rapso warriors: Poetic performance, revolution, and conscious art music in Trinidad and Tobago
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Moonsammy,Patricia A. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 284 p., An anthropological study of music as social activism and postcolonial identity development. The research for this dissertation was conducted in Trinidad and Tobago during an extended period of fieldwork from August 2003-February 2005, and during subsequent research trips from 2005 through 2008. This dissertation is a social history of the evolution of rapso, a genre of music that is heavily oriented toward poetic lyrics that advocate for social justice and the upliftment of the oppressed in Trinidad and Tobago. Grounded in oral and archival history and performance analysis, this study addresses the complex interconnections between the political economy of cultural production in Trinidad and Tobago, the politics of racial, gender, and national identity, and the individual quest for self-affirmation and meaning in life through the pursuit of artistic and activist work.
4. The middle passages of black migration
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sharpe,Jenny (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Atlantic studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 6(1) : 97-112
- Notes:
- In characterizing the desperate journeys undertaken by African and Haitian refugees as today's "middle passages," Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore and Edwidge Danticat's "Children of the Sea" complicate the idea of a single origin to a transatlantic black Diaspora. The term 'middle passage' is more recently used to describe multiple crossings that transform the meaning of Diaspora into a vital and ongoing process.