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Vulnerable States
Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction
De Ferrari, GuillerminaAccording to Martinican theorist Édouard Glissant, the twentieth century has been dominated in the Caribbean by a passion for the remembrance of colonial history. But while...
Aunt Résia and the Spirits and Other Stories
Lahens, YanickThe Haiti of Yanick Lahens's path-breaking short fiction is a country demanding our compassion as it reveals to us its horrors. For decades among the forefront of Haitian...
A New Plantation South
Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas
Whayne, Jeannie M.Jeannie M. Whayne traces the emergence of a transformed southern plantation system in the Arkansas delta decades after the end of the Civil War. By manipulating laws and...
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...
Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas
Aljoe, Nicole N., Finseth, IanFocusing on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection of essays suggests the importance—even...
Forgotten Time
The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War
Willis, John C.Although it came to epitomize the Cotton South in the twentieth century, the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta emerged as a distinct entity in the decades following the Civil War. As...
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...
Ceramic Uncles and Celluloid Mammies
Black Images and Their Influence on Culture
Turner, Patricia A.Exploring white American popular culture of the past century and a half, Turner details subtle and not-so-subtle negative tropes and images of black people, from Uncle Tom and...
The Equality of Believers
Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa
Elphick, RichardFrom the beginning of the nineteenth century through to 1960, Protestant missionaries were the most important intermediaries between South Africa’s ruling white minority and...
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...
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...