Publication Year: 2012 / Subject Term: Criticism and interpretation / Language: English

Start Over Publication Year 2012 Subject Term Criticism and interpretation Language English

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Linder,Michael (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic University
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 72 p., Examines the recurrence of the image of sugarcane in Caribbean literature and traces a timeline of oppressive discourse. The image of the cane field represents a tension between silencing voice and identity independent of European nation-building ideologies. There is a history of silencing associated with sugarcane, even as Caribbean authors seek a potential to use this history to create a voice. While the authors examined employ the image of the cane field to create a voice outside of the dominant discourse, the voice of the Caribbean is nonetheless restricted.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Carr,Helen (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Tavistock, Devon, U.K; London: Northcote; British Council
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 153 p, Jean Rhys and her critics -- Feminist approaches to Jean Rhys -- The Caribbean question -- Writing in the margins -- Autobiography and ambivalence -- 'The day they burned the books' -- Fort Comme La Mort : the French Connection -- The politics of Good morning, midnight -- The huge machine of law, order and respectability -- Resisting the machine -- The enemy within -- Goodnight, day -- Intemperate and unchaste -- The other side -- The struggle for the sign.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Knepper,Wendy (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Jackson: University Press of Mississippi
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 274 p., Examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. Chamoiseau's work sheds light on the dynamic processes of creolization that have shaped Caribbean history and culture. The author's diverse body of work, which includes plays, novels, fictionalized memoirs, treatises, and other genres of writing, offers a compelling vision of the postcolonial world from a francophone Caribbean perspective.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Amiel,Tricia (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic University
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 68 p, Traditional Caribbean history has been directed by and focused upon the conquerors who came to the region to colonize and seek profitable resources. Native Caribbean peoples and African slaves used to work the land have been silenced by traditional history so that it has become necessary for modern Caribbean thinkers to challenge that history and recreate it. Alejo Carpentier and Michelle Cliff challenge traditional Caribbean history in their texts, The Kingdom of This World and Abeng, respectively. Each of these texts rewrites traditional history to include the perspectives of natives and the slaves of Haiti and Jamaica. Traditional history is challenged by the inclusion of these perspectives, thus providing a rewritten, revised history.

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