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2. Jean Rhys
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Carr,Helen (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Tavistock, Devon, U.K; London: Northcote; British Council
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 153 p, Jean Rhys and her critics -- Feminist approaches to Jean Rhys -- The Caribbean question -- Writing in the margins -- Autobiography and ambivalence -- 'The day they burned the books' -- Fort Comme La Mort : the French Connection -- The politics of Good morning, midnight -- The huge machine of law, order and respectability -- Resisting the machine -- The enemy within -- Goodnight, day -- Intemperate and unchaste -- The other side -- The struggle for the sign.
3. Patrick Chamoiseau : a critical introduction
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Knepper,Wendy (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Jackson: University Press of Mississippi
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 274 p., Examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. Chamoiseau's work sheds light on the dynamic processes of creolization that have shaped Caribbean history and culture. The author's diverse body of work, which includes plays, novels, fictionalized memoirs, treatises, and other genres of writing, offers a compelling vision of the postcolonial world from a francophone Caribbean perspective.
4. Rewriting history in Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World and Michelle Cliff's Abeng
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Amiel,Tricia (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 68 p, Traditional Caribbean history has been directed by and focused upon the conquerors who came to the region to colonize and seek profitable resources. Native Caribbean peoples and African slaves used to work the land have been silenced by traditional history so that it has become necessary for modern Caribbean thinkers to challenge that history and recreate it. Alejo Carpentier and Michelle Cliff challenge traditional Caribbean history in their texts, The Kingdom of This World and Abeng, respectively. Each of these texts rewrites traditional history to include the perspectives of natives and the slaves of Haiti and Jamaica. Traditional history is challenged by the inclusion of these perspectives, thus providing a rewritten, revised history.