Kingston Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
335 p, Rock it Come Over describes the music and lore of slavery from the early sixteenth century through emancipation in 1838 to the mid twentieth century.
Online via UI Library electronic suscription., Using Farmers Weekly as a data source, authors identified four main discourses of farmer acceptance of, and resistance to, quality assurnce schemes; and discourses which construct a particular representation of consumers.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
194, back cover
Notes:
"Under the editorial guidance of Jack Zipes, sixty-seven expert contributors from around the world have come together in this beautifully illustrated A-Z Companion to combine their insight and expertise to explore all aspects of the Western fairy-tale tradition. The result is a unique synthesis of knowledge, from Alice in Wonderland to Tom Thumb, from Gabriel García Márquez (p.194) to Louisa May Alcott, from Charles Perrault to Angela Carter, from Hans Christian Andersen to Disney, making this an authoritative and wide-ranging reference work, essential for anyone who values the tradition of storytelling." -back cover.
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.
Watson investigates the emigration of indigenous Amerindians in the West Indies during the period 1834-1900 and their replacement with enslaved Africans. After the emancipation of the slaves in 1833, the poor whites, who used to perform militia service on plantations in the West Indies, were forced to emigrate due to lack of employment opportunities.;
UI electronic subscription, Author analyzes the history, methods and impact of a radio program, "We say what we think," produced by a group of Dane County rural women during this period. Offers perspectives on how the Extension Service encouraged domesticity as the role of rural women. "Linking domesticity to the trope of progress in this way kept rural women from discussing the changes taking place around them." Author also comments on marginalization of rural sociology as a discipline in the academy.