African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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319 p., Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman assemble a stellar collection of original essays and visual materials that situate Shakespeare's play in both its original contexts and our own cultural moment. In a final section, the book traverses the Atlantic for a look at American and Caribbean readings of the play and its translation into colonial allegory. Includes Aimé Césaire, Pratricia Seed and Gorge Lamming.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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)
James,Conrad (Author) and Perivolaris,John (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
280 p., "While difficult to define--and sometimes even to locate—the Hispanic Caribbean is fraught with tension. The region includes nations that have common histories yet very different contemporary political characteristics. This collection maps out the reasons behind the tensions and looks specifically at the distinctive causes and founding concepts of the area." (Google) Includes: Ian Isidore Smart's "Discovering Nicolás Guillén through Afrocentric Literary Analysis"; Efraín Barradas' "Nancy Morejón: Nation, Negritude, and Marginality"; Manuel Granados' "Notes on the History of Blacks in Cuba . . . and May Elegguá Be with Me"; Jorge Marbán's "Transculturation and Integration of the Afro-Venezuelan World in the Contemporary Venezuelan Novel";
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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252 p, Book Description A portrait of a diaspora community in motion, this book documents the social and cultural development of a people “without history,” a people who have sometimes been dismissed as foreigners who merely perpetuate the culture of the homeland rather than becoming “truly” Caribbean. Also contains a CD --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. (Amazon);
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.
