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2. American Creoles : the Francophone Caribbean and the American South
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Munro,Martin (Editor) and Britton,Celia (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 256 p., This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in terms of its physical layout and the social relations it created, was largely the same in the Caribbean and the American South. Essays written by leading authorities in the field examine the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South, including Louisiana, which among the Southern states has had a quite particular attachment to France and the Francophone world. The essays focus on issues of history, language, politics and culture in various forms, notably literature, music and theater.
3. Turning the Creole inside-out : Caribbeanist narratives of identity and Creolization
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Shaw,Christopher David (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Los Angeles
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 411 p., "Even though accepted definitions of the Caribbean Creole focus on its status as native to the region, it is just as emphatically tied to somewhere else, giving it a vexed status. Through a comparative analysis of fictional, sociological, historical and psychological portraits of the Caribbean Creole, I argue that the Creole's working definition is equally indebted to casting it as a cultural outsider in local contexts in and around the Caribbean." --The Author
4. Atlantic Creoles in the age of revolutions
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Landers,Jane (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 340 p., Sailing the tide of a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group of African-born and African-descended individuals transformed themselves from slaves into active agents of their lives and times. Reconstructs the lives of unique individuals who managed to move purposefully through French, Spanish, and English colonies, and through Indian territory, in the unstable century between 1750 and 1850. Mobile and adaptive, they shifted allegiances and identities depending on which political leader or program offered the greatest possibility for freedom.
5. The creolization reader: studies in mixed identities and cultures
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cohen,Robin (Editor) and Toninato,Paola (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- New York: Routledge
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 402 p., Intends to illuminate old creole societies and emerging cultures and identities in many parts of the world. This book covers areas that include Latin America, the South Atlantic/Indian oceans, the Caribbean, West and East Africa, the Pacific and the US. It provides a reader-friendly and informative overview of creolization. Includes Jean Bernabe, Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphael Confiant's "In Praise of Creolite" and Mary Gallagher's "Creolite Movement: Paradoxes of a French Caribbean Orthodoxy," Gordon Rohlehr's "Calypso Reinvents Itself" and Aisha Khan's "Sacred Subversions? Syncretic Creoles, the Indo-Caribbean and 'CULTURES In-Between'."
6. The politics of passion : women's sexual culture in the Afro-Surinamese diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Wekker,Gloria (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2006-01-01
- Published:
- New York: Columbia University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 313 p., Analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners. Wekker describes the lives of these women, who prefer to create alternative families of kin, lovers, and children, and gives a fascinating account of women's sexuality that is not limited to either heterosexuality or same-sex sexuality. She offers new perspectives on the lives of Caribbean women, transnational gay and lesbian movements, and an Afro-Surinamese tradition that challenges conventional Western notions of marriage, gender, identity, and desire.
7. Disparate Diasporas: Identity and Politics in an African Nicaraguan Community
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gordon,Edmund Tayloe (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1998
- Published:
- Austin: University of Texas Press, Austin, Institute of Latin American Studies
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 330 p, Based on a decade the author spent among the African-Caribbean "Creole" people on Nicaragua's southern Caribbean coast, Disparate Diasporas is a study of identity formation and politics in that community. Shows how a particular Black community can evolve distinct types of diasporic consciousness, and, depending on the historical moment, how different types of memories, consciousness, and politics come to predominate. Focusing on the period of the 1970s and 1980s, explains the inability of the Sandinistas to come to terms with the racial and cultural challenge to the Nicaraguan nation posed by the Creole community.