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Leonora
The Buried Story of Guadeloupe
Bebel-gisler, DanyLeonara is a first in francophone Caribbean literature: neither fiction nor biography, this book by sociologist and Creole-culture advocate Dany Bebel-Gisler has elements of...
Crossing the Line
Early Creole Novels and Anglophone Caribbean Culture in the Age of Emancipation
Ward, Candace Crossing the Line examines a group of early nineteenth-century novels by white creoles, writers whose identities and perspectives were shaped by their experiences in...
Reclaiming Difference
Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism
Mardorossian, Carine M.In Reclaiming Difference, Carine Mardorossian examines the novels of four women writers—Jean Rhys (Dominica/UK), Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe/USA), Edwidge Danticat (Haiti/...
The Belle Créole
Condé, MarysePossessing one of the most vital voices in international letters, Maryse Condé added to an already acclaimed career the New Academy Prize in Literature in 2018. The twelfth...
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...
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...
Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery
Goings, Henry, Schermerhorn, Calvin, Plunkett, Michael, Gaynor, Edward Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada. Born Elijah Turner in the Virginia...
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...
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...
Rituals of Race
American Public Culture and the Search for Racial Democracy
Lorini, AlessandraIn this sophisticated study of the struggle for African American human rights in America, Alessandra Lorini examines public events in New York City from the end of the Civil...
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...
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...
Tropical Circle
Fantour, AlioumThis novel, winner of the coveted Grand Prix de Littérature d'Afrique Noire, has been seen as a story about the struggles of nation-building in Africa, as a fierce depiction of...
Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction
Slavery in Richmond Virginia, 1782–1865
Takagi, MidoriRICHMOND WAS NOT only the capital of Virginia and of the Confederacy; it was also one of the most industrialized cities south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Boasting ironworks,...
The Abandoned Baobab
The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman
Bugul, KenThe subject of intense admiration--and not a little shock, when it was first published--The Abandoned Baobab has consistently captivated readers ever since. The book has...
Signs of Dissent
Maryse Condé and Postcolonial Criticism
Fulton, DawnMaryse Condé is a Guadeloupean writer and critic whose work has challenged the categories of race, language, gender, and geography that inform contemporary literary and...
Against the Hounds of Hell
A Life of Howard Thurman
Eisenstadt, PeterAn inspiration to Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, and other leaders of the civil rights movement, Howard Thurman was a crucial figure in the history of African Americans...
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...
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...
Cultural Haunting
Ghosts and Ethnicity in Recent American Literature
Brogan, KathleenGhost stories in various forms have been a part of popular literature for centuries, from Shakespeare to Dickens to Faulkner. Over the past twenty-five years, a resurgence of...
In the Flicker of an Eyelid
A Novel
Alexis, Jacques StephenIn his third novel, Jacques Stephen Alexis brings his characteristically vivid scenes, political consciousness, and powerful characters to the dramatic age-old question of...
From Calabar to Carter's Grove
The History of a Virginia Slave Community
Walsh, Lorena S.[Book description not available]
"Beyond Our Wildest Dreams"
The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa
van Kessel, InekeAs anyone who lived through that decade knows, the 1980s in South Africa were marked by protest, violent confrontation, and international sanctions. Internally, the country saw...
Strategies for Survival
Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia
Dusinberre, William Strategies for Survival conveys the experience of bondage through the words of former slaves themselves. The interviews—conducted in Virginia in 1937 by WPA...