Hornung,Alfred (Author) and Ruhe,Ernstpeter (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
Atlanta, GA: Rodopi
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
263 p, Revised manuscripts of the Anglophone workshops at the symposium on "Postcolonialism & Autobiography" which took place at Wurzburg, June 19-22, 1996
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
68 p, Traditional Caribbean history has been directed by and focused upon the conquerors who came to the region to colonize and seek profitable resources. Native Caribbean peoples and African slaves used to work the land have been silenced by traditional history so that it has become necessary for modern Caribbean thinkers to challenge that history and recreate it. Alejo Carpentier and Michelle Cliff challenge traditional Caribbean history in their texts, The Kingdom of This World and Abeng, respectively. Each of these texts rewrites traditional history to include the perspectives of natives and the slaves of Haiti and Jamaica. Traditional history is challenged by the inclusion of these perspectives, thus providing a rewritten, revised history.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
169 p, "Provides a compelling feminist analysis of gender politics in the works of four major Africana women writers: Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Assia Djebar, and Paule Marshall." (Amazon.com)
