African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
201 p, Focuses on the literature of Caribbean women writers in the 1980s and 1990s particularly the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid, Erna Brodber, Marlene Nourbese Philip, and Merle Hodge. (Amazon.com)
Conde,Maryse (Author) and Richard Philcox (Translator)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
New York: Soho
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
260 p., Desirada is the story of Marie-Noelle and her quest to understand the mother who abandoned her and to discover the identity of her father. It is also the story of generations of island women and the pursuit of a meaningful life despite a tainted personal history.
Rodríguez Guglielmoni,Linda M. (Author), González Hernández,Miriam Mercedes (Author), and Linda M. Rodríguez Guglielmoni,Miriam M.González Hernández (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Bronx, NY: Latino Press, Latin American Writers Institute, Eugenio María de Hostos Community College, CUNY
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
253 p, International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers (7th : 2000 : Mayagüez, P.R.); Conference held Apr. 3-7, 2000, in Mayagüez and Ponce, R.
Leslie profiles Euzhan Palcy, an African-American filmmaker from the island of Martinique in the West Indies. In her films Palcy has profiled the poet Aime Cesaire and taken on the atrocities of apartheid
