Perez Sarduy,Pedro (Editor) and Stubbs,Jean (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
1993
Published:
Melbourne Vic.: Ocean Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Published in association with the Center for Cuban Studies (New York)., 309 p, This anthology looks at the AfroCuban experience through the eyes of the island's writers, scholars and artists. Divided into three sections: The Die is Cast, Myth and Reality and Redrawing the Line, introducing the reader to a wide range of previously unavailable Cuban authors, in which dissenting voices speak alongside established writers, such as Fernando Ortiz.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
229 p., Brings together a contemporary selection in English from some of the key writers now living in Canada, the US, and the UK, as well as various countries of the Caribbean. Reflecting a changing world, and admitting diverse cultural influences and generational differences, these writers maintain a distinct Caribbean-ness in their acute historical awareness and in the cadences and rhythms of their language.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
358 p, Contents: From A true and exact history of the island of Barbados (1657) /; Richard Ligon --; From Jamaica viewed (1661) /; Edmund Hickeringill --; From Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies (1684) /; Thomas Tryon --; Trip to Jamaica (1698) /; Edward Ward --; Speech made by a Black of Guardaloupe (1709) /; Anonymous --; Speech of Moses Bon Saam (1735) /; Anonymous --; From The speech of Mr. John Talbot Campo-bell (1736) /; Robert Robertson --; Story of Inkle and Yarico and An epistle from Yarico to Inkle, after he had left her in slavery (1738) /; Frances Seymour --; Poems from Caribbeana (1741) /; The "Ingenious Lady" of Barbados --; Sugar cane: a poem, in four books (1764) /; James Grainger --; From A general description of the West-Indian islands (1767) /; John Singleton --; "Carmen, or, an Ode," in Edward Long's A history of Jamaica (1774) /; Francis Williams --; From Jamaica, a poem, in three parts (1777) /; Anonymous.
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
220 p., This collection uses the metaphor of the global Caribbean to discuss the multiple movements, identities, epistemologies and politics of the Caribbean. Examines the processes of the transnational transport of peoples, languages, and literatures between the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and North America.
