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2. 'It will be social': Black women writers and the postwar era 1945--1960
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Caldwell,Katrina Myers (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 268 p., This study used a Black feminist critical framework to examine the conditions that influence the production of black women's fiction during the postwar era (1945-60). The novels of Ann Petry, Dorothy West and Paule Marshall were studied as artifacts that were shaped by the cultural and political climate of this crucial period in American history. A survey was also conducted of their associations with members and organizations in the American Left to determine what impact their social activism had on their lives and art. It was determined that these writers' political engagement played a significant role in the creation of transformative narratives about the power of black women to resist oppression in all of its forms. As a consequence of their contribution to a rich black feminist literary tradition, these postwar black women fiction writers serve as important foremothers to later generations of black women artists.
3. <Ten is the Age of Darkness: The Black Bildungsroman, by Geta LeSeur >. (Book review)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Deck,Alice A. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Spring, 1999
- Published:
- Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- African American Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 33(1) : 159-161
4. Antología del personaje negro en la cuentística de escritorias centroamericanas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Muñoz,Willy O. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- Ciudad de Guatemala: Letra Negra Editores
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 187 p., Alas/ Graciela Rojas Sucre-- Y se hicieron amigos/Alicia Castro Argüello-- Amor de mulata/ Argentina Díaz Lozano-- La sombra de la otra/Victoria Urbano -- El negro/Leonor Paz y Paz -- El penador/ Luisita Aguilera Patiño -- Juan Negro / Dina del Carmen Rodas Jerez --Al negro le pagan por bailar /Matilde Elena López --Siervo de siervos/Rima de Vallbona -- ¿Hombre raro o sensitivo? / Catalina Barrios y Barrios -- ¿Y yo?/ Julieta Pinto -- Amor se escribe con G/ Rosa María Britton -- El horno de la vida / Bertalicia Peralta -- La aristócrata y su mulato /Irma Prego -- El talingo / Consuelo Tomás -- Cuando Claudina camina /Consuelo Tomás -- Hay que tener vergüenza/ Moravia Ochoa López -- El secreto de Lola / Moravia Ochoa López -- El veredicto / María Dávila -- Atrapado / Aída Judith González Castrellón -- El mulato/ Marta Susana Prieto; Includes biblipgraphical references ( 175-186)
5. Bodied knowledges (where our blood is born): Maternal narratives and articulations of black women's diaspora identity
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- crump,helen j. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Minnesota: University of Minnesota
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 220 p., Employs a black feminist diaspora literary lens to identify, define, trace, and speak to the African Diaspora as it functions in black women's diaspora fiction and informs our understanding of black women's diaspora identity. Considers three authors and novels by women of, in, and across the African Diaspora. The study centers on Sandra Jackson-Opoku's The River Where Blood Is Born as a primary site of analysis of diaspora formation and theorization, Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon and Maryse Condé's Desirada as comparative textual and theoretical sites.
6. Bodies of Knowledge: Madness and Power in Africana Women's Texts
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Mountain,Chandra Tyler (Author)
- Format:
- Monograph
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 269 p
7. Rewriting the return to Africa : voices of francophone Caribbean women writers
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- François,Anne M. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Lanham, Md: Lexington Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 111 p, Examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Conde, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the masculinist version by Negritude male writers from the 1930s to 1960s. Negritude, a cultural and literary movement, drew much of its strength from the idea of a mythical or cultural reconnection with the African past allegorized as a mother figure. In contrast these women writers, of the post-colonial era who are to large extent heirs of Negritude, differ sharply from their male counterparts in their representation of Africa. In their novels, the continent is not represented as a propitious mother figure but a disappointing father figure.
8. Ten is the Age of Darkness: The Black Bildungsroman
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- LeSeur,Geta J. (Author)
- Format:
- Monograph
- Publication Date:
- 1995
- Published:
- Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 233 p, Contents: Introduction. "Out of Many, One": A Case of Multiple Childhoods -- I. "The Ending Up Is the Starting Out": The Bildungsroman Re/formed -- II. "Behold the Great Image of Authority": African West Indian Male Initiation -- III. "His Great Struggle Beginning": African American Male Initiation -- IV. Womanish Girls: African American Female Initiation -- V. Journeys to Selfhood: African West Indian Female Initiation -- Conclusion. Ten Is the Age of Darkness -- Chronology of the African American Bildungsroman -- Chronology of the African West Indian Bildungsroman
9. Women's work: Nationalism and contemporary African American women's novels
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Thorsson,Courtney (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- New York, NY: Columbia University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 318 p., In the late 20th century, Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, and Toni Morrison reclaim and revise cultural nationalism. The author devotes a chapter to each author. Organizing, formally on the page and thematically in the story, heals the fractured single and communal bodies in Bambara's 1980 novel The Salt Eaters. On the islands of Tatem and Carriacou, Marshall's Avey Johnson dances a cultural nation dependent on diasporic connections in Praisesong for the Widow (1983). Naylor's Willow Springs proves fertile island ground in Mama Day (1988) for women's work to map nation, unearth an archive, and mother the next generation. Shange's recipe-laden novel Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982) and later cookbook if I can Cook/you Know God can (1998) posit cooking as theory and practice of community. In Morrison's Paradise (1997), women write and paint records of their individual and collective histories. This group of writers uses Africa, the Sea Islands, the Caribbean, the American South, the kitchen, the dance floor, and the garden as spaces that help define a distinctly African American collectivity practiced in highly local, concrete work for fashioning self and community. In these practices, cultural nationalism comes to rely not on the imagined and far away, but on the lived and local.