African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
160 p., Chronicles the history of slavery in Haiti through a recitation of the brutality of the colonisers and the often mundane and trivial ways in which they attempted to dehumanize Haitians. It seeks to illustrate how Haitians' 300-year journey to freedom was illuminated by the African philosophy of Ubuntu, a world view that embodies human solidarity, respect, dignity, justice, liberty, and love. In this philosophy, Africans found an unmatched strength to resist slavery.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
223 p, Ileana Rodriguez's House/Garden/Nation: Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women offers an insightful look into the role the feminine has played in the constructions of nation and nationalism in critical moments of Latin American history. Although feminism is at the center of the study, it is always predicated by concerns of ethnicity and social class. (BNET);
243 p., Analyzes three novels by contemporary female Caribbean and Latin American Afro-descendent writers of the diaspora: Peruvian Lucía Charún-Illescas' Malambo (2001), Brazilian Ana Maria Gonçalves' Um defeito de cor (2006), and Puerto Rican Mayra Santos-Febres' Fe en disfraz (2009). In these texts, the old and the new intermingle in the space of the narrative. The colonial past is reexamined and reconstructed out of the need to understand its reminiscences into the present and the necessity to transform the future.
Myrsiades,Kostas (Author) and McGuire,Jerry (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1995
Published:
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
415 p, Includes Patrick Taylor' "Narrative, pluralism, and decolonization: recent Caribbean literature" and Mara L. Dukats' "The hybrid terrain of literary imagination: Maryse Condé's black witch of Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne, and Aimé Césaire's heroic poetic voice"
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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312 p., Analyzes the conflicts between the British government and Caribbean nationalists over regional integration, the Cold War, immigration policy and financial aid in the decades before Jamaica, Trinidad and the other territories of the Anglophone Caribbean became independent.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
323 p., A comprehensive study of the decisive 5-year period between 1962 and 1967 which witnessed the unfolding of an intense decolonization dialogue between Britain and its far-flung Eastern Caribbean possessions at the height of the Cold War.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
412 p, Includes Thomas Bonnici' "Diaspora in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the river (1993)" and Adrian Grima's "They are us": interview with Caryl Phillips"
