Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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283 p., Using travel and tourism as sites where the pleasures of imperialism met the politics of empire, Christine Skwiot untangles the histories of Cuba and Hawai'i as integral parts of the Union and keys to U.S. global power, as occupied territories with violent pasts, and as fantasy islands ripe with seduction and reward. Grounded in a wide array of primary materials that range from government sources and tourist industry records to promotional items and travel narratives, The Purposes of Paradise explores the ways travel and tourism shaped U.S. imperialism in Cuba and Hawai'i.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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598 p, This book includes information of Theodore Roosevelt and Latin America, the Panama Canal, the Roosevelt Corollary, the Dominican customs house, and the Cuba intervention of 1906
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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495 p., Investigates the diverse poetic manifestations of a sensibility that may be designated as French Caribbean through a close reading of a representative sample of poems. Many are presented here in translation for the first time. Contents: Marie-Magdeleine Carbet -- Léon-Gontran Damas -- Aimé Césaire -- Edouard Glissant -- Guy Tirolien -- Yves Padoly -- Joseph Polius -- Gilette Bazile, Marcelle Archelon-Pépin, Michèle Bilavarn.
295 p., Focuses on the function of black vernacular myths and rituals in three primary women's texts of the Americas: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon (1977), Simone Schwartz-Bart's Pluie et Vent sur Telumee Miracle (1972) and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow (1983). My project codifies how the black vernacular expressions of mythology and ritual are used to negotiate power between the individual and their community. The author traces how the women in these texts used resources of the black vernacular tradition as social and cultural collateral to empower themselves within an alternative system of values that simultaneously validates self and communal worth.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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92 p, Contents: Towards a Caribbean literary tradition: a reading of Carpentier - - The politics of innocence in the work of Garcia Márque [sic] -- Peasants in purgatory: plotting guilt in Rulfo's Pedro Páramo -- Carpentier's Histoire de lunes : a translation
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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150 p., Contents: Postcolonial Caribbean women's fiction : a revisionist discourse
Caribbean women's literature in the post independence era Beka Lamb : a look at "befo' time Crick crack, monkey : "when monkey caan see'e own tail" Angel : "light the way for us!" Traversing thresholds.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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381 p., There is a total of four volumes in the Trujillo and Haiti series. Volume 1: 1930-1937; volume 2:1937-1938; volume 3:1939-1946; and volume 4: 1946-1957.
