African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Papers presented at the conference organized by the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies held in 2005 in Sliema, Malta., 412 p., Includes Jogamaya Bayer's "Crossing the borders in Monica Ali's Brick lane and V.S. Naipaul's Half a life," Gen'ichiro Itakura's "Jewishness, goyishness, and blackness : Zadie Smith's The autograph man," and Lourdes López-Ropero's "The pleasures of slave food : the politics of creolization in Austin Clarke's Pigtails 'n breadfruit."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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160 p, Twentieth-century Black literary and political figures of the United States and the Caribbean related to Africa in complex and ambivalent ways that did not prevent them from denouncing the social, economic, and political oppressions of the West against Blacks of Africa and its Diaspora from slavery through colonialism and neocolonialism.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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248 p., Case studies dealing with a variety of black British and ethnic American writers, Home, identity, and mobility in contemporary diasporic fiction shows how new identities and homes are constructed in the migrants' new homelands. Includes chapter on Black British perspectives. From black Britain to the Caribbean : the return of the (im)migrant in Caryl Phillips's A state of independence.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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226 p., Investigates how these entrenched notions of paradise, which islands have traditionally represented metonymically, are contested in the works of four postcolonial authors: Jamaica Kincaid, Lawrence Scott, Romesh Gunesekera, and Jean Arasanayagam, from the island nations of the Caribbean and Sri Lanka.
Joseph-Vilain,Mélanie (Editor), Misrahi-Barak,Judith (Editor), and Turcotte,Gerry (Author)
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Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Essays from an international conference held at Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier III, in November 2007, organised by the Cerpac (Centre d'étude et de recherches sur les pays du Commonwealth/Research Centre on the Commonwealth)., 481 p., Includes Anthony Carrigan's "Haunted places, development, and opposition in Kamau Brathwaite's The Namsetoura papers," Maurizio Calbi's "Writing with ghosts : Shakespearean spectrality in Derek Walcott's A branch of the Blue Nile," Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère's "Rattling Perrault's dry bones : Nalo Hopkinson's literary voodoo in Skin folk,"
Prudence Layne's "Reincarnating Legba : Caribbean writers at the crossroads,"
Timothy Weiss' "The living and the dead : translational identities in Wilson Harris's The tree of the sun," and Kerry-Jane Wallart's "The ghost in Wilson Harris's The Guyana quartet : matter that matters."
Examines racial politics in Brazil by analyzing the city of Salvador da Bahia's cultural policies over time and their relationship to national ideology and racial identity in Brazil more generally. It argues that the re-Africanization of Salvador's Carnival and its historical center, the Pelourinho, although initially products of the mobilization of Afro-Bahians themselves, have become institutionalized and ironically serve today as testaments to Brazil's diversity, tolerance, and integration.
