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2. From sugar to revolution : women's visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Chancy,Myriam Josèphe Aimée (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Waterloo, Ont: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 358 p, Chancy aims to show that Haiti’s exclusion is grounded in its historical role as a site of ontological defiance. Her premise is that writers Edwidge Danticat, Julia Alvarez, Zoé Valdés, Loida Maritza Pérez, Marilyn Bobes, Achy Obejas, Nancy Morejón, and visual artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons attempt to defy fears of “otherness” by assuming the role of “archaeologists of amnesia.” They seek to elucidate women’s variegated lives within the confining walls of their national identifications—identifications wholly defined as male. They reach beyond the confining limits of national borders to discuss gender, race, sexuality, and class in ways that render possible the linking of all three nations.
3. The "third space" Leonora Miano novelist afropeenne
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Laurent,Sylvie (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Language:
- French
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Paris, France: EHESS
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines
- Journal Title Details:
- 204 : 769-810
- Notes:
- The examination of Leonora Miano's work offers a great example of how, through literature, a new form of Negritude could be identified. This paper intends to highlight her American (including Caribbean) literary inspirations and how the rising Franco-Cameronese novelist has compounded them with her African upbringing and family ties which allows her to reflect on what she calls "Afropeaness".