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It Shall Be of Jasper and Coral and Love-across-a-Hundred-Lives
Liking, WerewereThe West African writer, painter, playwright, and director Werewere Liking is considered one of the best literary interpreters of the postcolonial condition in Africa. Her...
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...
Sex and the Citizen
Interrogating the Caribbean
Smith, Faith L. Sex and the Citizen is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that draws on current anxieties about "legitimate" sexual identities and practices across the Caribbean...
The Segregated Scholars
Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890–1950
Wilson, Francille RusanIn Segregated Scholars Francille Rusan Wilson explores the lives and work of fifteen black labor historians and social scientists as seen through the prisms of gender, class,...
Comrade Sister
Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution
Lambert, Laurie R.In 1979, the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement under Maurice Bishop overthrew the government of the Caribbean island country of Grenada, establishing the People’s...
How Societies Are Born
Governance in West Central Africa before 1600
Vansina, JanLike stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: How did societies first coalesce from the small foraging...
From Morning To Night
Domestic Service at Maymont and the Gilded-Age South
O'Leary, ElizabethStep off the lush carpet and push through the swinging door of the butler’s pantry to enter the bustling realm of domestic workers at Maymont House from 1893 to 1925. In From...
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...
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...
A House Divided
Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638–1865
Essah, PatienceDelaware stood outside the primary streams of New World emancipation. Despite slavery's virtual demise in that state during the antebellum years and Delaware's staunch Unionism...
French and West Indian
Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana Today
Burton, Richard D. E., Reno, FredIn 1946, after more than three hundred years as French colonies, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana were transformed into "overseas departments" of France, equal and...
Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature
From Alexis to the Digital Age
Murray-Román, JeannineFocusing on the literary representation of performance practices in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean literature, Jeannine Murray-Román shows how a shared...
Cultivation and Culture
Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas
Berlin, Ira, Morgan, Philip D.So central was labor in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for granted, with little attention given to the type of work that slaves did and the...
Wives of the Leopard
Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey
Bay, Edna G. Wives of the Leopard explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the...
The Finger of God
Enoch Mgijima, the Israelites, and the Bulhoek Massacre in South Africa
Edgar, Robert R.On the morning of May 24, 1921, a force of eight hundred white policemen and soldiers confronted an African prophet, Enoch Mgijima, and some three thousand of his followers....
Juanita
A Romance of Real Life in Cuba Fifty Years Ago,
Mann, Mary PeabodyOriginally published in 1887 and never before reprinted, Juanita is a historical romance based on Mary Peabody Mann's experience of living on a Cuban slaveholder's plantation...
Slave in A Box
The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima
Manring, Maurice M.The figure of the mammy occupies a central place in the lore of the Old South and has long been used to ullustrate distinct social phenomena, including racial oppression and...
Facing Freedom
An African American Community in Virginia from Reconstruction to Jim Crow
Thorp, Daniel B.The history of African Americans in southern Appalachia after the Civil War has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both African Americans and the region. In Facing...
Tree of Liberty
Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World
Garraway, Doris L.On January 1, 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared the independence of Haiti, thus bringing to an end the only successful slave revolution in history and transforming the...
Reflections of Loko Miwa
Desquiron, LilasReflections of Loko Miwa is th first novel for Lilas Desquiron, one of few Haitian women writers to gain international recognition. The country's complex social and political...
Edwidge Danticat
A Reader's Guide
Munro, Martin Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), the novel born from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood in Haiti and immigration to New York City, was one of the great literary debuts of recent...
Exhibiting Slavery
The Caribbean Postmodern Novel as Museum
Halloran, Vivian Nun Exhibiting Slavery examines the ways in which Caribbean postmodern historical novels about slavery written in Spanish, English, and French function as virtual museums,...
Sol Plaatje
A Life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, 1876-1932
Willan, BrianWhile the story of modern South Africa has long captured global attention, the story of one of its key forefathers has been eclipsed by those of more iconic political figures....