Joseph-Vilain,Mélanie (Editor), Misrahi-Barak,Judith (Editor), and Turcotte,Gerry (Author)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Essays from an international conference held at Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier III, in November 2007, organised by the Cerpac (Centre d'étude et de recherches sur les pays du Commonwealth/Research Centre on the Commonwealth)., 481 p., Includes Anthony Carrigan's "Haunted places, development, and opposition in Kamau Brathwaite's The Namsetoura papers," Maurizio Calbi's "Writing with ghosts : Shakespearean spectrality in Derek Walcott's A branch of the Blue Nile," Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère's "Rattling Perrault's dry bones : Nalo Hopkinson's literary voodoo in Skin folk,"
Prudence Layne's "Reincarnating Legba : Caribbean writers at the crossroads,"
Timothy Weiss' "The living and the dead : translational identities in Wilson Harris's The tree of the sun," and Kerry-Jane Wallart's "The ghost in Wilson Harris's The Guyana quartet : matter that matters."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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196 p, Includes chapters "Of mangoes and maroons : language, history, and the multicultural subject of Michelle Cliff's Abeng," "Toward a new antillean humanism: Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove," "Inscriptions of exile: the body's knowledge and the myth of authenticity in Myriam Warner-Vieyra and Suzanne Dracius-Pinalie," and "Geographies of pain: captive bodies and violent acts in Myriam Warner-Vieyra, Gayl Jones, and Bessie Head"
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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359 p, Includes Kitzie McKinney's "Memory, Voice, and Metaphor in the Works of Simone Schwartz-Bart," Joan Dayan's "Erzulie: A Women's History of Haiti?," and Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi's "Narrative "je(ux)" in Kamouraska by Anne Hebert and Juletane by Miriam Warner-Vieyra"
Hornung,Alfred (Author) and Ruhe,Ernstpeter (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
Atlanta, GA: Rodopi
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
263 p, Revised manuscripts of the Anglophone workshops at the symposium on "Postcolonialism & Autobiography" which took place at Wurzburg, June 19-22, 1996
205 p., Analyzes the poetry of the African American Langston Hughes and the Jamaican Louise Bennett during the 1940s. Through an examination of the unique similarities of their poetic projects, namely their engagement of performance to build their audiences, their experiments with poetic personae to represent vernacular social voices, their doubleness as national and transnational figures, their circulation of poetry in radio and print journalism and their use of poetry as pedagogy to promote reading, this dissertation establishes a new perspective on the role of poetry in decolonizing language practices. While Hughes and Bennett are often celebrated for their representation of oral language and folk culture, this project reframes these critical discussions by drawing attention to how they engage performance to foster an embodied form of reading that draws on Creole knowledge systems.
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"
203 p., Examines the presence of slave vocality in Black Atlantic literature, placing the North American tradition of slave narrative against works from authors throughout the United States and the Caribbean. Challenges existing approaches to slave narrative by viewing the genre as one based on the fundamental impossibility of expressing black subjectivity under the political, ethical, and psychic conditions of slavery. The slave narrative thus ceases to represent an attempt by former slaves to access freedom and agency through writing, along with its promises of reason and autonomy, but rather signals (or sounds) a process of expression built not upon meaning, but upon signification. In other words, rather than crafting themselves into legible objects for the sake of narration and perception, slave narrators performed their roles as exchangeable units, both discursive and political, in ways that exposed the underlying lacunae of being a slave-narrator, a significative protocol that persists in contemporary black fiction throughout the Atlantic, even in areas in which the slave narrative did not historically emerge.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
336 p., Traces a trio of interrelated modernist genealogies. English modernism as exemplified by Conrad's Malay trilogy, Indonesian modernism of Pramoedya's Buru quartet, and creole modernism of the Caribbean in Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
245 p, Contents: The politics of postcolonial nationalist literature / The nation as problem and possibility / Caribbean space: Lamming, Naipaul, and federation / The novel after the nation: Nigeria after Biafra / The persistence of the nation: literature and criticism in Canada / National culture and globalization
