Biddle,Arthur W. (Author) and Bien,Gloria (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1995
Published:
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
845 p, Includes Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl"; George Lamming's "A wedding in spring"; Paule Marshall's "from The chosen place, the timeless people"; Edward Kamau Brathwaite's "Red rising" and "Xango"; Jean Rhys' "The day they burned the books"; Simone Schwarz-Bart's "from The bridge of beyond"; Grace Nichols' "Wherever I hang" and "Tropical death"; Michelle Cliff's "If I could write this in fire, I would write this in fire"; Lorna Goodison's "The mulatta and the minotaur," "Lullaby for Jean Rhys," "Nanny" and "For my mother (may I inherit half her strength)"; Aimé Césaire's "from Return to my native land"; Joseph Zobel's "The gift"; Derek Walcott's' "Sea grapes," "The swamp," and "The castaway"; V.S. Naipaul's "from The mystic masseur"; and /Earl Lovelace's "from The dragon can't dance"
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
406 p, In the first systematic study of the politics and culture of the Afro-Caribbean migration to the U.S., historian Wintson James explains the enigma of political radicalism among Caribbean migrants. This important work shows that streams of Afro-Caribbean migration constituted a vibrant link between African Americans and the continent from which their ancestors were wrenched centuries ago. 256 pp;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
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
Notes:
223 p, Ileana Rodriguez's House/Garden/Nation: Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women offers an insightful look into the role the feminine has played in the constructions of nation and nationalism in critical moments of Latin American history. Although feminism is at the center of the study, it is always predicated by concerns of ethnicity and social class. (BNET);
