African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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327 p., These 107 tales come from the canefields of the antebellum South, the villages of Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary Philadelphia. They includes stories set down in travelers' reports and plantation journals from the early 19th century, tales gathered by collectors such as Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale Hurston, and narratives tape-recorded by Roger Abrahams himself during extensive expeditions throughout the American South and the Caribbean.
Tunapuna, T'dad, W.I.: Research Associates School Times Publication
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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32 p., A biography of the black nationalist leader who worked to improve conditions for black workers in his native country of Jamaica and pledged to free Africa from white colonial rule and establish a black homeland there.
Washington, DC: Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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33 p, One of several essays published in a series of pamphlets entitled "Focus:
Caribbean." Three other essays dealing with particular Caribbean nations and with migrations to the United States are available from the Wilson Center. These are: Washington. Wayne S. Smith, former U.S. ambassador to Cuba, "Castro's Cuba: Soviet Power or Nonaligned?"; Michel-Rolph Trouillet on "Nation, State, and Society in Haiti, 1804—1984"; and Evelyne Hubert Stephens and John D. Stephens on "Jamaica's Democratic Socialist Experience."
The letters were written by Langston Hughes to Nicolas Guillen, the National Poet of Cuba, President of the Writers' Union, UNEAC, and a member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party. They outline one of the longest and most significant literary friendships of the 20th century.
Dollimore,Jonathan (Editor) and Sinfield,Alan (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
244 p, Includes Paul Brown's "'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine': The Tempest and the discourse of Colonialism." Three connections within complex colonial discourse, according to Brown, are “class discourse (masterlessness), a race discourse (savagism) and a politically and courtly sexual discourse”
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Revision of thesis (Ph. D.--Johns Hopkins University, 1974), originally presented under title: Slave resistance and social control in Antiqua, 1700-1763., 338 P., Essentially a history of the Caribbean sugar societies as manifested on one small island from 1670 to 1763. In 1736, the British Caribbean island of Antigua uncovered a plot among its slave population to destroy the white power structure. Using extensive quotations from the governmental investigation of the plot, Gaspar attempts a full examination of all aspects of a slave society and of the intertwined relationships of masters and servants.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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259 p, Includes Veronica Brady's "Arnold apple's son of Guyana. autobiography or fiction?," Sheila Roberts' "V.S. Naipaul's identity in fact and fiction," etc.
Port-au-Prince, Haïti: Bureau Nacional d' Ethnologie
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
p. 79
Notes:
Features the following studies: "Emic and Eric Perspectives: Haitian Children's Songs", "Personnalite et Ajustment Social de l'Haitien", and "backyard Archaelogy at Puerto Real, Haiti". Includes notes and references.
Conde,Maryse (Author) and Cottenet-Hage,Madeleine (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
Paris: Karthala
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
320 p, Contents: introduction / Madeleine Cottenet-Hage -- The gendering of créolité / A. James Arnold -- Codes of law and bodies of color / Joan Dayan -- Métissage, discours masculin et déni de la mère / Françoise Vergès -- Critique afrocentrique de L'éloge de la créolité / Ama Mazama -- Créolité in question : Caliban in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove / Kathleen Balutansky -- La vie scélérate de Maryse Condé : métissage narratif et héritage métis / Marie-Agnès Sourieau -- "Créolité" is/as resistance : Raphaël Confiant's Le nègre et l'amiral / Ronnie Scarfman -- Jouissances carnavalesques : représentations de la sexualité / Thomas Spear -- Lire Chamoiseau / Delphine Perret -- Inscription du créole dans les textes francophones : de la citation à la créolisation / Pascale DeSouza -- Ecrire l'écrivain : créolité et spécularité / Lydie Moudileno -- Itinéraire d'un écrivain guadeloupéen / Ernest Pépin -- Emile Ollivier, romancier haïtien / Leon-François Hoffman -- Améliorer la lisibilité du monde / Emile Ollivier -- La créolité "Haitian style" / Leah D. Hewitt -- Métellus, diasporism and créolité / Hal Wylie -- La poésie insulaire de Saint-John Perse / Régis Antoine -- Maryse Condé, la république des corps / Christophe Lamiot --Ecrire en tant que Noire / Gisèle Pineau -- Reading Testimonio : the sound of Rigoberta's voice / Cora G. Lagos and Kevin Meehan -- Chercher nos vérités / Maryse Condé
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
1 videocassette (52 min.)
Notes:
Describes the religion of voodooism and gives an account of its history in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Filmed in New York, the work contains interviews with participants and depictions of ceremonies;
"A change in attitudes toward nature and "natural persons" during the 1920's-30's in the United States led in part to a revision in North American attitudes toward Latin Americans. Insofar as the peoples of Latin America, including Indians, blacks, women, children, and the poor, symbolized natural folk - that is, those individuals not participating in mainstream capitalist culture - they became the substance of a stereotype made popular by a countercultural revolution in the 1920's-30's." (author)
"FOCUS is a means by which Teska Associates, Inc. can share professional experience, insights and perspectives with others. This issue summarizes a presentation by Robert B. Teska at the Illinois Infrastructure Issues and Financing Conference held in Chicago on June 27, 1985."
