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Dézafi
Frankétienne Dézafi is no ordinary zombie novel. In the hands of the great Haitian author known simply as Frankétienne, zombification takes on a symbolic dimension that stands as a...
At the Café and The Talisman
Dib, MohammedReflecting distinct and important stages in the career of the preeminent Algerian writer Mohammed Dib, "At the Café" and "The Talisman" brings together two collections...
A World of Their Own
A History of South African Women’s Education
Healy-Clancy, MeghanThe politics of black education has long been a key issue in southern African studies, but despite rich debates on the racial and class dimensions of schooling, historians have...
Memory at Bay
Trouillot, ÉvelyneWinner of the prestigious Prix Carbet--an award won by such distinguished authors as Maryse Condé, Jamaica Kincaid, and Raphaël Confiant-- Memory at Bay is now available...
Arabic as a Secret Song
Sebbar, LeïlaThe celebrated and highly versatile writer Leïla Sebbar was born in French colonial Algeria but has lived nearly her entire adult life in France, where she is recognized as a...
Rum Histories
Drinking in Atlantic Literature and Culture
Nesbitt, Jennifer PoulosWhen you drink rum, you drink history. More than merely a popular spirit in the transatlantic, rum became a cultural symbol of the Caribbean. While often dismissed as set...
Tropical Apocalypse
Haiti and the Caribbean End Times
Munro, MartinIn Tropical Apocalypse, Martin Munro argues that since the earliest days of European colonization, Caribbean—and especially Haitian—history has been shaped by...
Caribbean Romances
The Politics of Regional Representation
Edmondson, BelindaThis interdisciplinary volume on postcolonial Caribbean culture brings together ten essays by exciting young scholars who challenge some of the established assumptions of...
American Imperialism's Undead
The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism
Dalleo, RaphaelAs modern Caribbean politics and literature emerged in the first half of the twentieth century, Haiti, as the region's first independent state, stood as a source of inspiration...
Economy Hall
The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood
Shaik, FatimaIt is impossible to imagine New Orleans, and by extension American history, without the vibrant and singular Creole culture. In the face of an oppressive white society, members...
Nedjma
Yacine, KatebNedjma is a masterpiece of North African writing. Its intricate plot involves four men in love with the beautiful woman whose name serves as the title of the novel. Nedjma is...
Mapping Hispaniola
Third Space in Dominican and Haitian Literature
Myers, Megan JeanetteBecause of their respective histories of colonization and independence, the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic has developed into the largest economy of the Caribbean, while...
Water Graves
The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean
Loichot, Valérie Water Graves considers representations of lives lost to water in contemporary poetry, fiction, theory, mixed-media art, video production, and underwater sculptures....
In Search of Annie Drew
Jamaica Kincaid's Mother and Muse
Dance, Daryl CumberThere is perhaps no other person who has been so often and obsessively featured in any writer’s canon as Jamaica Kincaid’s mother, Annie Drew. In this provocative new book,...
One Love, Ghoema Beat
Inside the Cape Town Carnival
Mason, John Edwin One Love, Ghoema Beat: Inside the Cape Town Carnival takes readers behind the scenes of one of the world’s least known and most colorful carnivals. Similar in many ways...
In Search of Julien Hudson
Free Artist of Color in Pre–Civil War New Orleans
Greenwald, Erin M.[Book description not available]
From Calabar to Carter's Grove
The History of a Virginia Slave Community
Walsh, Lorena S.[Book description not available]
Sugar's Secrets
Race and the Erotics of Cuban Nationalism
Kutzinski, Vera M.How and why has Cuba's national identity been cast in terms of a cross-cultural synthesis called mestizaje, and what roles have race, gender, sexuality, and class played in the...
The Quebec Connection
A Poetics of Solidarity in Global Francophone Literatures
Tolliver, Julie-FrançoiseFrom the 1950s to the 1970s, the idea of independence inspired radical changes across the French-speaking world. In The Quebec Connection, Julie-Françoise Tolliver...
Talk Yuh Talk
Interviews with Anglophone Caribbean Poets
Dawes, KwameBefore the Caribbean-inflected spoken-word poetry of the 1990s, epitomized by poetry slams at the Nuyorican Poets Café in Manhattan, there was reggae. In the past thirty years...
Richard Potter
America's First Black Celebrity
Hodgson, John A.Apart from a handful of exotic--and almost completely unreliable--tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the...
Staging Creolization
Women's Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean
Sahakian, EmilyIn Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian examines seven plays by Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, and Simone Schwarz-Bart that premiered in the French Caribbean...
Virginia Landmarks of Black History
Sites on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places
Loth, CalderThe 64 sites described in this book are a testament to the contribution that African-Americans have made to Virginia history over the last four centuries. The buildings they...
A Cultural History of Underdevelopment
Latin America in the U.S. Imagination
Leary, John Patrick A Cultural History of Underdevelopment explores the changing place of Latin America in U.S. culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the recent U.S.-Cuba détente. In...
Friends for Life, Friends for Death
Cohorts and Consciousness among the Lunda-Ndembu
Pritchett, James A.Breaking away from traditional ethnographic accounts often limited by theoretical frameworks and rhetorical styles, Friends for Life, Friends for Death offers an insider’s view...