Studies of political change on Grenada have invariably centred on the activities of T. Albert Marryshow in the period immediately after World War I. Drawing on the rich data available from contemporary newspapers, this paper argues that Donovan's efforts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries provided the impetus and framework for Marryshow's later struggles. In fact, Marryshow himself admits Donovan's contributions to his political growth. The "first of the Federalists", Donovan preached federation long before the concept was fashionable. Embracing a broad approach to the island's situation, both activists linked local demands for change to the plight of Africans worldwide. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT];
Albany, New York.: State University of New York Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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304 p, Rethinks the social processes that violently refashioned Puerto Rican society in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on recent theorizations of post-structuralism, feminism, critical criminology, subaltern studies, and post-coloniality he examines the mechanisms through which colonized subjects become recognized, contained, and represented as subordinate. At issue are the cultural practices that necessarily accompanied and aided U. S. colonialist enterprises in Puerto Rico during a shift in the world capitalist market and in geopolitical hegemony with the Caribbean.
Domenella,Ana Rosa (Author), Godinas,Laurette (Author), and Higashi,Alejandro (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Departamento de Filosofía: M.A. Porrua
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"This book was written by a leading member of the Castro revolution in Cuba. Dreke was the second in command in Africa (behind the legendary Che Guevera) for the export of a similar revolution to that continent." (Publisher)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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288 p, Explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. Draws on cartography, travels, narratives of childhood in the Caribbean, journeys across the Canadian landscape, African ancestry, histories, politics, philosophies and literature. The title, A Map to the Door of No Return, refers to both a place in imagination and a point in history -- the Middle Passage. The quest for identity and place has profound meaning and resonance in an age of heterogenous identities.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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276 p, The history of Haiti throughout the twentieth century has been marked by oppression at the hands of colonial and dictatorial overlords. But set against this "day for the hunter" has been a "day for the prey," a history of resistance, and sometimes of triumph. With keen cultural and historical awareness, Gage Averill shows that Haiti's vibrant and expressive music has been one of the most highly charged instruments in this struggle—one in which power, politics, and resistance are inextricably fused.
Explores such diverse genres as Haitian jazz, troubadour traditions, Vodou-jazz, konpa, mini-djaz, new generation, and roots music. He examines the complex interaction of music with power in contexts such as honorific rituals, sponsored street celebrations, Carnival, and social movements that span the political spectrum.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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207 p., Fosters a dialogue across islands and languages between established and lesser-known authors, bringing together archipelagic and diasporic voices from the Francophone and Hispanic Antilles. In this pan-diasporic study, Ferly shows that a comparative analysis of female narratives is often most pertinent across linguistic zones.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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207 p., Fosters a dialogue across islands and languages between established and lesser-known authors, bringing together archipelagic and diasporic voices from the Francophone and Hispanic Antilles. In this pan-diasporic study, Ferly shows that a comparative analysis of female narratives is often most pertinent across linguistic zones.
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."
