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From My People
A celebration of African American life and culture brings together four hundred years of folklore, traditional tales, recipes, proverbs, legends, folk songs, and folk art.
Sucking Salt
"Examines the literature of black Caribbean emigrant and island women including Dorothea Smartt, Edwidge Danticat, Paule Marshall, and others, who use the terminology and imagery of "sucking salt" as an articulation of a New World voice connoting adaptation, improvisation, and creativity, offering a new understanding of diaspora, literature, and feminism"--Provided by publisher.
Long Gone
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New World Adams
In this updated collection of interviews with 22 of the most important writers of the English-speaking Caribbean, matters of relevant biography, social and political context, the writer’s attitudes toward language, and his or her agenda as a Caribbean person are explored. Providing more than just a valuable sourcebook for readers of West Indian writing, these interviews are probing, combative, reflective, and absorbing. The writers interviewed include Michael Anthony, Louise Bennett, Jan Carew, Martin Carter, Denis Williams, Austin Clarke, Neville Dawes, Wilson Harris, John Hearne, C. L. R. James, Ismith Khan, George Lamming, Earl Lovelace, Tony McNeil, Pam Mordecai, Velma Pollard, Mervyn Morris, Orlando Patterson, Vic Reid, Dennis Scott, Sam Selvon, Michael Thelwell, Derek Walcott, and Sylvia Wynter.
Fifty Caribbean Writers
Even when available elsewhere, information on these 50 English-language authors is sparse; the in-depth treatment here includes biography, description of major works and themes, summary of critical reception, and an exhaustive bibliography of works by and about each author. Both academic and public libraries will want to accept this invitation to another world. Library Journal
The Caribbean Short Story
The short story has been integral to the development of Caribbean literature, and continues to offer possibilities for invention and reinvigoration. As the most comprehensive study of its kind, this important and timely volume explores the significance of the short story form to Caribbean cultural production across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The twenty original essays collected here offer a unique set of inquiries and insights into the historical, cultural and stylistic characteristics of Caribbean short story writing. The book draws together diverse critical perspectives from established and emerging scholars, including Shirley Chew, Alison Donnell, James Procter, Raymond Ramcharitar and Elaine Savory. Essays cover the publishing histories of specific islands; intersections of the local, global and diasporic; treatments of race and gender; language, orality and genre; and cultural contexts from tourism to calypso to cricket. Book jacket.
REMEMBERING Paule
Literary friendships are themselves legend-often as fascinating and as melodramatic as the literary productions of the writers: Christ and John, Johnson and Boswell, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Byron and Shelley, Hawthorne and Melville, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Hughes and Bontemps, Hughes and Hurston, Wright and Baldwin, King and Abernathy, Morrison and Bambara, Ginsburg and Totenberg. These friends often inspired, supported, informed, guided, collaborated, protected, advised, traveled, worked, partied, drank and dined together. But oftentimes several of these literary friends also conflicted, disagreed, envied, quarreled, attacked, abused, threatened, renounced, and even sued each other. Som...
Decolonization and the Other
In 1962 Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago became independent countries; Barbados followed in 1966. In the years leading up to these events, the history of the British West Indies was written largely by the British, the colonial power, who focused on the process of decolonization and the key local players involved. After independence, local scholars also focused on the role of political leaders in the newly independent countries. To date, scholars have paid little attention to the impact of these events on the local populations of these islands. Decolonization and the Other: The Case of the British West Indies explores the local perspectives on, and reactions to, events by using West Indian lit...
Caribbean Waves
"Caribbean Waves explores the ways in which literature can probe the complexities of displacement and identity construction that often accompany migratory experiences. Analysis of McKay's and Marshall's works reveals how the forces of migration, racial and national affiliation, and "Americanization" can merge to produce uniquely hybridized, and at times profoundly homeless, black American immigrant identities."--BOOK JACKET.
