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175 p., The essays in this volume consider various literary and linguistic aspects of the Francophone Caribbean at the beginning of the 21st century, focusing particularly on the French Overseas Departments of Martinique and Guadeloupe, and the independent islands of Haiti and Dominica.
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224 p., Marronage - the process of flight by slaves from servitude to establish their own hegemonies in inhospitable or wild territories - had its beginnings in the early 1500s in Hispaniola, the first European settlement in the New World. As fictional personae the maroons continue to weave in and out of oral and literary tales as central and ancient characters of Jamaica's heritage. Identifies the place of Jamaican fiction in the larger regional literature and focuses on its essential themes and strategies of discourse for conveying these themes.
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247 p, Set in both Toronto and the Caribbean, this novel gives voice to the power of love and belonging in a story of two women, profoundly different, each in her own spiritual exile.
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32 p., Jamaica has many adventures around her island home, as she dances in the marketplace to the beat of Miss Lee Brown's drums and chases the baby chick who escapes from her father, in an infectious rhymed verse inspired by the rhythms of reggae music.
