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2. After the end of the world: Poetics, time and black experimental writing
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Reed,Anthony (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 263 p., A study of the poetics of experimental writing, focusing on the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Nathaniel Mackey, Suzan-Lori Parks and Kamau Brathwaite. Arguing that conceptions of time tend to be at the heart of political concerns throughout the sites of the African diaspora, this project challenges those notions of black writing that rest on the binary or oppression/resistance. Specifically concerned with poetry, Kamau Brathwaite and Nathaniel Mackey specifically confront and contravene the legacy of the lyric voice in both the presentation and topics of their work. Brathwaite invents a shifting system of fonts, margins and a capacious first-person singular/plural to articulate a time and a "we" of the Caribbean and the diaspora.
3. BBC trailblazer's story told: Biographer lifts the lid on radio woman who was Haile Selassie's pal
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Mejias,Olivia (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2000-11-06
- Published:
- London, UK
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The Voice
- Journal Title Details:
- 932 : 3
- Notes:
- Biographer Delia Jarrett-Macauley stumbled across Marson's name while doing research for another book. The book has been well-received throughout Britain. Copies have sold out during every one of Jarrett-Macauley's book-signings and scheduled talks. "I saw this clipping that said, `Una Marson, the well-known BBC producer is now on holiday in Jamaica.' And I said: `What! You mean we had a black woman producer at the BBC as early as 1945 and we don't know about it.' I decided her story must be known," she said. Marson joined the BBC in 1936 and made an immediate impact, rising rapidly through the ranks. In 1942 she became the West Indies producer and created the Caribbean Voices programme, which won exposure and respectability for Caribbean writers and poets.
4. Bookscape
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Butler,Tim (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2000-06-14
- Published:
- Memphis, TN
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Tri - State Defender
- Journal Title Details:
- 24 : 1B
- Notes:
- Oonya Kempadoo has been praised for her debut novel, Buxton Spice, a coming-of-age story set in the Caribbean. The book is a breathtaking glimpse into the inner life of Lula, a lively, highly imaginative girlchild growing up in a racially mixed family in Guyana in the 1970s. Kempadoo's unique and vibrant prose is the camera lens on the lushly exotic world that Lula inhabits. Through her eyes readers are introduced to the colorful denizens of Tamarind Grove. We see the village prostitutes (Sugar Baby, Bullet and Rumshop), the eccentric families, the gentle town spinsters, and Aunt Ruthy, the obeah voodoo lady.
5. Canon and corpus: The making of American poetry
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Upton,Corbett Earl (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Oregon: University of Oregon
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 223 p., Argues that certain iconic poems have shaped the canon of American poetry. Not merely "canonical" in the usual sense, iconic poems enjoy a special cultural sanction and influence; they have become discourses themselves, generating our notions about American poetry. By "iconic" the author means extraordinarily famous works like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride," Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," and Claude McKay's "If We Must Die," that do not merely reside in the national memory but that have determined each poet's reception and thus have shaped the history of American poetry.
6. Carnival and national identity in the poetry of Afrocubanismo
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Anderson,Thomas F. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 341 p., Examines the long-running debate between the proponents of Afro-Cuban cultural manifestations and the predominantly white Cuban intelligentsia who viewed these traditions as "backward" and counter to the interests of the young Republic. Includes analyses of the work of Felipe Pichardo Moya, Alejo Carpentier, Nicolás Guillén, Emilio Ballagas, José Zacarías Tallet, Felix B. Caignet, Marcelino Arozarena, and Alfonso Camín.
7. Common places : the poetics of African Atlantic postromantics
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Oakley,Seanna Sumalee (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Amsterdam: Rodopi
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 317 p., While a great deal of postcolonial criticism has examined how the processes of hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, and syncretism impact African diasporic literature, Oakley employs the heuristic of the "commonplace" to recast our sense of the politics of such literature. Her analysis of commonplace poetics reveals that postcolonial poetic and political moods and aspirations are far more complex than has been admitted. African Atlantic writers summon the utopian potential of Romanticism, which had been stricken by Anglo-European exclusiveness and racial entitlement, and project it as an attain.
8. Laraque Launches Between Struggle and Hope in Boston
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Tontongi (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- May 2004
- Published:
- Dorchester, MA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Boston Haitian Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 5 : 22
- Notes:
- [Paul, Franck Laraque], Franck's brother and co-author, was not present in Boston for the event, but his spirit was represented by Lesly René, Laforèt Petit-Frère and [Jacques Antoine Jean] who read his poems from the bilingual, English-Creole anthology Open Gate: An Anthology of Haitian Creole Poetry (Curbstone Press, 2002) which Paul Laraque edited and other volumes (see Boston Haitian Reporter of May 2002). A revolutionary poet, he once corresponded with the celebrated French Surrealist guru André Breton, and was among the entourage of poets and intellectuals (René Depestre, Jacques Stephen Alexis, Théodore Baker, Gérald Bloncourt, Gérard Chenet, Pierre Mabile, etc.) who welcomed Breton in Port-au-Prince during the latter's famous visit to Haiti in December 1945.
9. Main themes in twentieth-century Afro-Hispanic Caribbean poetry: a literary sociology
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Roberts,Nicole (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 312 p., Argues for inclusion of more Afro-Hispanic poets in the Caribbean literary canon. This book offers an introductory overview of the literary tradition of Black writing in the Hispanic Caribbean. It also provides a survey of black poets.
10. Rhythmic literacy: Poetry, reading and public voices in black Atlantic poetics
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Neigh,Janet (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Pennsylvania: Temple University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 205 p., Analyzes the poetry of the African American Langston Hughes and the Jamaican Louise Bennett during the 1940s. Through an examination of the unique similarities of their poetic projects, namely their engagement of performance to build their audiences, their experiments with poetic personae to represent vernacular social voices, their doubleness as national and transnational figures, their circulation of poetry in radio and print journalism and their use of poetry as pedagogy to promote reading, this dissertation establishes a new perspective on the role of poetry in decolonizing language practices. While Hughes and Bennett are often celebrated for their representation of oral language and folk culture, this project reframes these critical discussions by drawing attention to how they engage performance to foster an embodied form of reading that draws on Creole knowledge systems.