African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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951 p., A story of an African elderly who is blind, and on the verge of death, travels to from African to Brazil in a hunt for the lost child for decades.
Jeanne Cuillier (author / Professor) and Institut Supérieur d'Urbanise et de la Recherche Urbaine, Brussels (on Programme) Vincennes, Paris (on Conference List)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
September 14-18, 1977
Location:
City Planning & Landscape Architecture Reference and Resource Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30; Folder: 27
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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311 p, Product Description This book examines the role of the Vichy regime in bringing about profound changes in the French colonial empire after World War II. In the war’s aftermath, the French colonial system began to break down. Indochina erupted into war in 1945 and Madagascar in 1947, while Guadeloupe chose an opposite course, becoming territorially part of France in 1946. The book traces the introduction of an integralist ideology of “National Revolution” to the French colonial realm, shedding new light on the nature of the Vichy regime, on the diversity of French colonialism, and on the beginnings of decolonization. Encompassing three very different regions and cultures, the study reveals both a unity in Vichy’s self-reproduction overseas and a diversity of forms which this ideological cloning assumed. World War II is often presented as an agent of change in the French colonial empire only insofar as it engendered a loss of prestige for France as colonizer. The author argues that Marshal Philippe Pétain’s Vichy regime contributed to decolonization in a much more substantial way, by ushering in an ideology based on a new, harsher brand of colonialism that both directly and indirectly fueled indigenous nationalism. The author also rejects the popular notion that Nazi pressure lurked behind the Vichy government’s colonial actions, and that the regime lacked any real agency in colonial affairs. He shows that, far from allowing the Germans to run French colonies from behind the scenes, Vichy leaders vigorously promoted their own undiluted form of ultra-conservative ideology throughout the French empire. They delivered to the colonies an authoritarianism that not only elicited fierce opposition but sowed the seeds of nationalist resurgence among indigenous cultures. Ironically, the regime awoke long-dormant nationalist sentiments by introducing to the empire Pétain’s cherished themes of authenticity, tradition, folklore, and völkism. (Amazon) ;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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216 p., Discusses the literary representations of Afro-descendants in mid- to late-19th century Cuba and Brazil, and how these representations impacted the development of the national narratives and mapped out the future social terrain for blacks and whites in both countries.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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245 p., Addressing the transnational relationships of Freemasonry, politics, and culture in the field of Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures, Writing Secrecy provides insight into Pan-Caribbean, transnational and diasporic formations of these Masonic lodges and their influences on political and cultural discourses in the Americas. Includes "Technologies: Caribbean Knowledges, Imperial Critiques 1860-1900s" and "Urgency and Possibility: Afro-Latin® Identities."
