Hodge candidly talks about her childhood, studies, life, etc. She also states that she writes about her cultural situation in the colonial era, but not as feminists take it. She also works for social advancement of women
Part 2 of Special journal issue: Haitian Literature and Culture., Félix Morisseau-Leroy, was a Haitian writer who wrote in Haitian Creole for poetry and plays.
In April 1999, Dionne Brand, Leslie Sanders, and Rinaldo Walcott sat down to have a conversation about Brand's second novel At The Full and Change of the Moon. The
interview took place over a promised riposte, and was a conversation among friends.
The novel concerns itself with the contemporary lives of the descendents of Marie Ursule a slave who commits a rebellious and horrific act of mass poisoning on a plantation but saves her daughter Bolla.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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1 videocassette (57 min.), Highlights the historical journey of an Afro-Cuban family, from Jamaica, to Cuba, to the Bronx, revealing that the Cuban-American experience is more diverse, racially and ideologically, than we are often led to believe. Diana, Ruben, and Pablo reveal stories of growing political awareness, overcoming the dangers of the streets, and coming into their own as Afro-Latinos.
"This book was written by a leading member of the Castro revolution in Cuba. Dreke was the second in command in Africa (behind the legendary Che Guevera) for the export of a similar revolution to that continent." (Publisher)
