African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
310 p, "First published in 1970, this pioneering account of the emergence of the West Indian Novel in English has been at the centre of the development of West Indian Literature as an academic discipline." (Ian Randle Publisher)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
32 p., Jamaica has many adventures around her island home, as she dances in the marketplace to the beat of Miss Lee Brown's drums and chases the baby chick who escapes from her father, in an infectious rhymed verse inspired by the rhythms of reggae music.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
216 p., Discusses the literary representations of Afro-descendants in mid- to late-19th century Cuba and Brazil, and how these representations impacted the development of the national narratives and mapped out the future social terrain for blacks and whites in both countries.
Conde,Maryse (Author) and Richard Philcox (Translator)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
New York, NY: Soho
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
348 p, A tale of revenge set in the Caribbean, in which the hero gets back at a rich man who stole his love by impregnating her after she becomes the man's wife. The result is tragedy, the woman dying in childbirth. By the author of Black Witch of Salem
