Proposes a reading of Donna Hemans' novel River Woman in relation to other contemporary Caribbean women writers and to the early fiction of Toni Morrison. Argues that the complex affects that her representation of 'child-shifting' produces can be articulated in relation to literary texts that re-imagine historical and contemporary practices leaving a child in order to save her and in the context of the plantation.
Looks at the performance of tomboy identity in Joan Anim-Addo's collection of poetry Janie, Cricketing Lady and Margaret Cezair-Thompson's novel The Pirate's Daughter. Argues that the ongoing affects of colonialism and patriarchy in the islands of Grenada and Jamaica, shape the life narratives. To understand the way in which affect can be expressed through tomboyism in Caribbean societies, it is necessary to look at color and class alongside gender in the context of Caribbean creolization.
"In this paper the process of creolisation will be considered through analysis of the wills and testaments of African, black and mixed-race women in nineteenth-century Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. As primary sources these will and testaments provide evidence concerning material, social and cultural markers of creolisation." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];
In 1815, two benevolent organizations commenced operation in Antigua, the Female Refuge Society based in English Harbour and the Distressed Females' Friend Society based in St John's. The organizations were run on principle by women and the executive committees were multi-racial. The annual reports of the Female Refuge Society had a profound impact on the direction "of female anti-slavery activism in Britain.
Perl,Matthias (Author), Schwegler,Armin (Author), and Lorenzino,Gerardo (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
Vervuert; Madrid: Frankfurt am Main
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
379 p, Contents: ntroduction / Matthias Perl -- El español caribeño : antecedentes sociohistóricos y lingüísticos / Gerado Lorenzino ... [et al.] -- O portugûes vernáculo do Brasil / Heliana R. de Mello ... [et al.] -- El papiamentu de Curazao / Philippe Maurer -- El palenquero / Armin Schwegler -- Perspectivas sobre el español bozal / John M. Lipski
Talks about the Antillean waltz and the island where it originated, the Curaçao. Discussion on creolization; Details of music and dance as venues for creolization among Africans aboard a slave ship; Social hierarchy in the island during the eighteenth century.;
Curaçao: Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma : University of the Netherlands Antilles
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Incorporates invited papers as well as presentations made to the 13th annual Eastern Caribbean Islands Culture Conference (aka the 'Islands in Between' Conference) which was held at the Turkeyen Campus of the University of Guyana from 4 to 6 November 2011., 355 p., A collection of articles that presents a critical perspective on the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora.
Christie,Pauline (Author) and Alleyne,Mervyn C. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
Barbados: University of the West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
224p, Focuses on Caribbean language and pays attention to issues of phonology, syntax, discourse, Creole genesis, and language problems in education. (back cover)
An investigation of Spanish-Creole languages in Latin America. After a socio-cultural and ethnological survey of the "transculturation" of ethnic groups of African origin, "creole" is defined as a third linguistic stratum between the African languages of slaves in America, and the official European languages. There is only an apparent lack of Spanish Creoles in South America. The black communities established in the old Cimarron settlements still manifest some Spanish Creole. (In Spanish)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
xi
Notes:
290 p, Introduction. Conceptualizing creoleness : French Caribbean "postcolonial" discourse. -- La Lézarde : Alienation and the poetics of Antillanité. -- En attendant le bonheur : Creole conjunctions and cultural survival. -- LIsole Soleil/Soufrières : textual creolization and cultural identity. -- LAutre qui danse : the modalities and multiplicities of Métissage. -- Solibo magnifique : carnival, opposition, and the narration of the Caribbean maroon. -- Conclusion. Creolizing the colonial encounter.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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310 p., Explores aboriginal and Creole identities in Guyanese society. Reveals how Creoles, though unable to usurp the place of aboriginals as First Peoples in the New World, nonetheless managed to introduce a new, more socially viable definition of belonging, through labor. The very reason for bringing enslaved and indentured workers into Caribbean labor became the organizing principle for Creoles' new identities.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
223 p., Investigates the exilic literature of Caribbean-born and Caribbean-descent writers who, from their new location in Northern America, question their cultural roots and search for a creative autonomy.
Examines the genesis of the French Antillean concept of Creolite that emerged in the 1980s and shows "how, through zouk, the popular music that emerged from Guadeloupe and Martinique in the early 1980s, Creolite is being defined, (re)presented, and negotiated." (author)
667 p., The author locates New Orleans as a cultural and cartographic heart linking the Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America into what she calls Américas du Golfe. The author traces flows of cultures and citizens(hips) through New Orleans and across national borders: physically, culturally, economically, visually, linguistically, and musically, challenging traditional nation-based scholarly frameworks, and reorienting New Orleans as a Gulf, rather than American, city.
The article reports on a conference on the history of the Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean regions, held in Berlin, Germany, from July 2-3, 2012. Topics of discussion included creole and African diasporic identities, racism, nationalism, and ethnic relations in Caribbean states such as Cuba, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic, and migration.
