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Art and Revolution
The Life and Death of Thami Mnyele, South African Artist
Wylie, DianaThami Mnyele's life spanned the era of apartheid. He was born the same year the National Party won office and came of age in a time (the 1960s) and a place (Johannesburg) that...
New World Modernisms
T.S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite
Pollard, Charles W.James Clifford tells us that modernism has become a "traveling culture" because it reflects the "discrepant cosmopolitanism" of the twentieth century—that is, a world in which...
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...
After August
Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama
Maley, PatrickCritics have long suggested that August Wilson, who called blues "the best literature we have as black Americans," appropriated blues music for his plays. After August insists...
Family Matters
Puerto Rican Women Authors on the Island and the Mainland
Moreno, Marisel C.Adopting a comparative and multidisciplinary approach to Puerto Rican literature, Marisel Moreno juxtaposes narratives by insular and U.S. Puerto Rican women authors in order...
The Key to the Door
Experiences of Early African American Students at the University of Virginia
Apprey, Maurice, Poe, Shelli M. The Key to the Door frames and highlights the stories of some of the first black students at the University of Virginia. This inspiring account of resilience and...
Do You Hear in the Mountains... and Other Stories
Bey, MaïssaThis new translation brings together two of Algerian author Maïssa Bey’s important works for the first time in English. "Do You Hear in the Mountains..." is a compelling piece...
Locating the Destitute
Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction
Radović, StankaWhile postcolonial discourse in the Caribbean has drawn attention to colonialism’s impact on space and spatial hierarchy, Stanka Radović asks both how ordinary people as "users...
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...
New World Modernisms
T.S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite
Pollard, Charles W.James Clifford tells us that modernism has become a "traveling culture" because it reflects the "discrepant cosmopolitanism" of the twentieth century – that is, a world in...
Creole Recitations
John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
Smith, Faith L.John Jacob Thomas (1841-1889) was one of the leading members of a newly emergent intelligentsia in nineteenth-century Trinidad—a group that could be identified as both "...
Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory
Strategies of Language and Resistance
Britton, CeliaEdouard Glissant has written extensively in French about the colonial experience in the Caribbean. Since he is known primarily as a novelist and poet, his theoretical essays...
Voicing Memory
History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature
Nesbitt, NickIn Voicing Memory Nick Nesbitt argues that the aesthetic practices of twentieth-century French Caribbean writers reconstruct a historical awareness that had been lost amid the...
Humus
Kanor, FabienneWhile researching in Nantes, a port city enriched by the slave trade, celebrated French novelist Fabienne Kanor came across a chilling report written in 1774 by the commander...
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...
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....
Guarding Cultural Memory
Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts
González Mandri, FloraIn Guarding Cultural Memory, Flora González Mandri examines the vibrant and uniquely illuminating post-Revolutionary creative endeavors of Afro-Cuban women. Taking on...
The Other Side of the Sea
Dalembert, Louis-Philippe The Other Side of the Sea, the first novel by this major Haitian author to be translated into English, is riveted on the other shore--whether it is the ancestral Africa...
The Afrikaners
Biography of a People
Giliomee, HermannThis book is a biography of the Afrikaner people. A historian and journalist who was one of the earliest and staunchest Afrikaner opponents of apartheid, Hermann Giliomee...
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...
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...
A Way out of No Way
Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South
Swann-Wright, DianneAn African American folk saying declares, "Our God can make a way out of no way.... He can do anything but fail." When Dianne Swann-Wright set out to capture and relate the...
Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Order
Keegan, TimothyIn this masterly work of synthesis and reinterpretation, Timothy Keegan looks anew at the relatively neglected period of South African history before the mineral age- in...