African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
517 p., Focuses on the period after the Second World War, when a significant number of Caribbean countries gained their independence, and the character of the region's post-colonial politics had become clear. The survey of political thought in this collection is divided into four sections: theories of the post-colonial state, theorizing post-colonial citizenship, Caribbean regionalism and political culture.
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);
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
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"
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
