African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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274 p., Examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. Chamoiseau's work sheds light on the dynamic processes of creolization that have shaped Caribbean history and culture. The author's diverse body of work, which includes plays, novels, fictionalized memoirs, treatises, and other genres of writing, offers a compelling vision of the postcolonial world from a francophone Caribbean perspective.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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410 p, Contents: Erotic autonomy as a politics of decolonization : feminism, tourism, and the state in the Bahamas -- Imperial desire/sexual utopia : white gay capital and transnational tourism -- Whose new world order? : teaching for justice -- Anatomy of a mobilization -- Transnationalism, sexuality, and the state : modernity's traditions at the height of empire -- Remembering This bridge called my back, remembering ourselves -- Pedagogies of the sacred : making the invisible tangible
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Searchable site on postcolonial literature and the history, politics, and religion of those geographic areas. Covers Africa, Australia, India, Singapore, New Zealand, Canada, the Caribbean, United Kingdom, and Ireland. The sites have been cross referenced under Authors, History, Religion, Postcolonial Theory, Gender Matters, and Diasporas.
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
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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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301 p., Brings together scholarship bridging ecocriticism and postcolonialism. Includes Sabine Wilke's "South America and the Caribbean. Performing tropics : Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der natur and the colonial roots of nature writing" and Bonnie Roos' "Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros : a sea change of stories in visible silence."
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"
