African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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350 p., In this second edition of "The Repeating Island," Antonio Benitez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Benitez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benitez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean--the area's discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics--there emerges an "island" of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Benitez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillen, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodriguez Julia.
Conde,Maryse (Author) and Cottenet-Hage,Madeleine (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
Paris: Karthala
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
320 p, Contents: introduction / Madeleine Cottenet-Hage -- The gendering of créolité / A. James Arnold -- Codes of law and bodies of color / Joan Dayan -- Métissage, discours masculin et déni de la mère / Françoise Vergès -- Critique afrocentrique de L'éloge de la créolité / Ama Mazama -- Créolité in question : Caliban in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove / Kathleen Balutansky -- La vie scélérate de Maryse Condé : métissage narratif et héritage métis / Marie-Agnès Sourieau -- "Créolité" is/as resistance : Raphaël Confiant's Le nègre et l'amiral / Ronnie Scarfman -- Jouissances carnavalesques : représentations de la sexualité / Thomas Spear -- Lire Chamoiseau / Delphine Perret -- Inscription du créole dans les textes francophones : de la citation à la créolisation / Pascale DeSouza -- Ecrire l'écrivain : créolité et spécularité / Lydie Moudileno -- Itinéraire d'un écrivain guadeloupéen / Ernest Pépin -- Emile Ollivier, romancier haïtien / Leon-François Hoffman -- Améliorer la lisibilité du monde / Emile Ollivier -- La créolité "Haitian style" / Leah D. Hewitt -- Métellus, diasporism and créolité / Hal Wylie -- La poésie insulaire de Saint-John Perse / Régis Antoine -- Maryse Condé, la république des corps / Christophe Lamiot --Ecrire en tant que Noire / Gisèle Pineau -- Reading Testimonio : the sound of Rigoberta's voice / Cora G. Lagos and Kevin Meehan -- Chercher nos vérités / Maryse Condé
Examines the work of Jamaican writer Una Marson for her engagement with the ideas of modernity and her cultural expectations as she traveled from Jamaica to London, England in the 1930s. Topics include colonialism, race and gender, modernism, and the magazine "Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Magazine for Business Youth of Jamaica and the Official Organ of the Stenographer's Association."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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228 p, Contents: Canonized hybridities, resistant hybridities: Chutney Soca, carnival, and the politics of nationalism / Shalini Puri -- Soca and social formations: avoiding the romance of culture in Trinidad / Stefano Harney -- Trinidad romance: the invention of Jamaican carnival / Belinda J. Edmondson -- All that is black melts into air: negritud and nation in Puerto Rico / Catherine Den Tandt -- Positive vibration? Capitalist textual hegemony and Bob Marley / Mike Alleyne --"Titid ad pèp la se marasa": Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the new national romance in Haiti / Kevin Meehan -- Shadowboxing in the Mangrove: the politics of identity in postcolonial Martinique / Richard Price and Sally Price -- Beautiful Indians, troublesome negroes, and nice white men: Caribbean romances and the invention of Trinidad / Faith Smith -- Homing instincts: immigrant nostalgia and gender politics in Brown girl, brownstones / Supriya Nair -- Derek Walcott: liminal spaces/substantive histories / Tejumola Olaniyan
