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    1. 'She found a way, left the child': 'Child-shifting' as the Plantation's Affects and Love's Paradox in Donna Hemans' River Woman

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Stafe,Suzanne (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2013-06
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Feminist Review
    Journal Title Details:
    104 : 61-79
    Notes:
    Proposes a reading of Donna Hemans' novel River Woman in relation to other contemporary Caribbean women writers and to the early fiction of Toni Morrison. Argues that the complex affects that her representation of 'child-shifting' produces can be articulated in relation to literary texts that re-imagine historical and contemporary practices leaving a child in order to save her and in the context of the plantation.

    2. On a quest to preserve Maroon heritage

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Format:
    Newspaper Article
    Publication Date:
    Sep 19-Sep 25, 2013
    Published:
    Jamaica, NY
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Weekly Gleaner
    Journal Title Details:
    p. 14
    Notes:
    Traditional Maroon culture was, however, determined to be in need of safeguarding and protection because of several factors. Chief among these was the fact that transmission of traditional knowledge from elders to younger generations was not taking place on the scale it was used to and the fact that migration patterns saw large numbers of Maroon youth leaving the traditional sites of settlements. In response, UNESCO was petitioned to assist in safeguarding traditional Maroon culture in Jamaica, in particular, that of the Maroons of Moore Town, who were deemed to be the most remote. In November 2003, UNESCO declared the Maroon Heritage of Moore Town as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. This action facilitated the implementation of measures geared toward documenting, for posterity, traditional Maroon cuisine, language, the Kromanti play and the craftsmanship associated with the creation of tools and implements such as their unique Prentin drum, fishpots, spears and the abeng.