Van Kempen discusses the songs and traditions of the Saramaccan peoples of the Upper Suriname. The music and lyrics of the Saramaccans depicts the troubles the ethnic groups have experienced in the 1990s from transmigration ordered by the government, typically lamenting or singing the praises of their old African villages, and cursing Western engineers for the uprooting of their cultures.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
127 p, Contents: Two people lived in me / C.L.R. James -- As time goes by / Samuel Selvon -- Sandra Street / Michael Anthony -- Bitter choice / Clifford Sealy -- Preacher / George Lamming -- Cricket / Edward Brathwaite -- Reckoning / Jan Carew -- Tacama / Edgar Mittelholzer -- Hurricane / John Hearne -- Visitor / H. Orlando Patterson -- New boy / V.S. Reid -- Death / Mervyn Morris -- House in another country / Neville Dawes.
Glaser,Marlies (Author) and Pausch,Marion (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
Amsterdam: Rodopi
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
The volume consists of a bilingual introduction of “parallelism of literary and cultural preoccupations” between Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean literatures. As well as English-and French-language articles on Caribbean poetry, novels, and theater. Also, includes interviews with six Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean authors and book reviews.;
