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Caribbean and African Cooking
Rosamund Grant

Interlink Publishing Group, 1998

The Other African Americans: Contemporary African and Caribbean Families in the United States
Yoku Shaw-Taylor

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007

Despite their growing presence, research on Caribbean and, especially, African immigrants has been scant. The scarcity of writings on these other African Americans contributes to the invisibility of these groups. The objective of this project is to broaden our understanding of these other African Americans. A focus on intra-racial dynamics among African Americans is important because of the ever-growing diversity of America's black population. ...

Unburnable

27 reviews
Marie-elena John

Amistad, 2007

Fascinating!
Wow. What a great novel! It's hard to believe it's fiction. The way the author ties in the characters, as well as the geographical and cultural references almost make this novel seem like a recap of Dominican oral histories. And to top it off, I learned sooo much from this book. I found myself constantly researching many of the references in the book: Maroons, Caribs, and Igbo cultures, the ...

Relations Between Africans, African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans: Tensions, Indifference and Harmony
Godfrey Mwakikagile

New Africa Press, 2007

Africans, African Americans, and Afro-Caribbeans also known as West Indians, and how they relate to each other are the focus of this study. Tensions which exist between a significant number of Africans and Afro-Caribbeans in Britain - between Jamaicans and Nigerians and others - is one of the subjects addressed in the book. The author, Godfrey Mwakikagile, who comes from Tanzania, also looks at how members of these groups cooperate in ...

African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean
Herbert S. Klein, Ben Vinson

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

This is an original survey of the economic and social history of slavery of the Afro-American experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus of the book is on the Portuguese, Spanish, and French-speaking regions of continental America and the Caribbean. It analyzes the latest research on urban and rural slavery and on the African and Afro-American experience under these regimes. It approaches these themes both historically and ...

African and Caribbean Celebrations (Festivals)
Gail Johnson

Hawthorn Press, 2008

This work is a wonderful introduction to the rich and varied festival traditions of the African diaspora. African-Caribbean Celebrations follows Hawthorn Press' successful formula of blending information with practical activities so that the reader can engage creatively with the subject. Here, you will find the history and traditions of Junkonnu, Carnival, Crop Over and the other key events of the festival calendar, all beautifully illustrated, ...

Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism (Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature)
Biodun Jeyifo

Cambridge University Press, 2003

Biodun Jeyifo examines the relationship between the innovative and influential writings of Wole Soyinka and his radical political activism. Jeyifo analyzes Soyinka's most ambitious works, relating them to the controversies generated by his appropriation of literature and theater for radical political objectives. The evaluations of this study are presented in the context of Soyinka's sustained engagement with the collective experience of violence ...

The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature Two Volume Hardback Set
F. Abiola Irele, Simon Gikandi

Cambridge University Press, 2004

Featuring new perspectives on African and Caribbean literature, this History explores the scope of the literature (variety of languages, regions and genres); nature of composition; and complex relationship with African social and geo-political history. It comprehensively covers the field of African literature, defined by creative expression in Africa as well as the black diaspora. This major history of African literature will be an essential ...

Black Rebels : African-Caribbean Freedom Fighters in Jamaica

2 reviews
Werner Zips

Marcus Wiener, 1999

The perfect introduction to Haitian history and culture
Haiti is a country that provokes strong responses and Libete is the perfect introduction to the wide variety of voices that have commented on the country and its history. Inevitably, there is much tragedy to relate both in the brutal history of slavery and in the later oppression and exploitation of the Haitian peasantry by the wealthy elite and the consistent interference from successive ...

Clear Word and Third Sight: Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing (New ...
Catherine A. John, Linda Speth

Duke University Press, 2003

Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or ?third sight,? is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated through a rich oral tradition. This consciousness has served diasporic communities by creating an alternate philosophical ?worldsense? linking ...

Caribbean New Wave: Contemporary Short Stories (African Writers Series)

1 review
Stewart Brown

Heinemann, 1990

Contemporary storytellers from the Caribbean
"Caribbean New Wave: Contemporary Short Stories" brings together 23 tales, selected by Stewart Brown. The authors here represent a number of English-speaking Caribbean nations: Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana, Belize, Antigua, and St. Lucia. These stories capture the linguistic, religious, racial, and political complexity of this region. Some of the most memorable selections include the following: Opal ...

Nadine Gordimer (Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature)
Dominic Head

Cambridge University Press, 1994

In this study, which may be used as an introduction as well as by those already familiar with Gordimer's work, Dominic Head discusses each of Nadine Gordimer's novels in detail, examining the texts both as a reflection of events and situations in the real world, and as evidence of her constant rethinking of her craft. Head shows how Gordimer's typical concerns are developed through increasing stress on the politics of textuality; and he ...

Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature)
Simon Gikandi

Cambridge University Press, 2001

Simon Gikandi's study offers a comprehensive analysis of all the published works of the influential Kenyan dramatist, novelist, and critic Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Gikandi traces Ngugi's literary career from the 1960s through to his role in shaping a radical culture in East Africa in the 1970s and his imprisonment and exile in the 1980s. Focusing also on Ngugi's engagement with nationalism, empire and postcoloniality, this book provides fresh insight ...

Diverse Worship: African-American, Caribbean & Hispanic Perspectives
Pedrito U. Maynard-Reid

InterVarsity Press, 2000

What are the universal constants of Christian worship? What are the unique elements that arise out of diverse local contexts? How do we appropriately respect and honor both the constancy and the diversity? In this book Pedrito Maynard-Reid explores the multiethnic dimensions of worship by looking at three specific cultural contexts for worship--African-American, Caribbean and Hispanic. After surveying worship and culture through ...

The Daughter's Return: African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History
Caroline Rody

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

The Daughter's Return offers a close analysis of an emerging genre in African-American and Caribbean fiction produced by women writers who make imaginative returns to their ancestral pasts. Considering some of the defining texts of contemporary fiction--Toni Morrison's Beloved, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, and Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven--Rody discusses their common inclusion of a daughter who returns to the site of her people's ...

Jean Rhys (Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature)
Elaine Savory

Cambridge University Press, 2007

Elaine Savory's study is a critical reading of Rhys' entire oeuvre, including the stories and autobiography, and is informed by recently released unpublished manuscripts by Rhys. Designed both for the serious scholar and those unfamiliar with Rhys' writing, Savory's book insists on the importance of a Caribbean-centered approach to Rhys, and shows how this context profoundly affects her literary style. Informed by contemporary arguments on ...

Chinua Achebe (Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature)
Catherine Lynnette Innes

Cambridge University Press, 1992

This book provides a detailed examination of the writings of Chinua Achebe, Africa's best-known and most widely-read author, shortlisted for the 1987 Booker Prize. Dr Innes studies his writings, lectures and activities chronologically, in the context of Nigerian culture and politics and their interaction with Western cultures and powers. Her analysis goes beyond that of previously published studies, to examine Achebe's short stories, essays and ...

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