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Caribbean Autobiography: Cultural Identity and Self-Representation

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123.85 BBD

Despite the range and abundance of autobiographical writing from the Anglophone Caribbean, this book is the first to explore this literature fully. It covers works from the colonial era up to present-day AIDS memoirs and assesses the links between more familiar works by George Lamming, C. L. R. James, Derek Walcott, V. S. Naipaul, and Jamaica Kincaid and less frequently cited works by the Hart sisters, Mary Prince, Mary Seacole, Claude McKay, Yseult Bridges, Jean Rhys, Anna Mahase, and Kamau Brathwaite.

ISBN/SKU: 
9780299176945
Author: 
Sandra Pouchet Paquet
Publication Date: 
2002-07-28
Publisher: 
University of Wisconsin Press

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

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42.25 BBD

A New York Times Notable Book
A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year

In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile.

Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands. Combining memoir and essay, these moving and eloquent pieces examine what it means to be an artist from a country in crisis.

ISBN/SKU: 
0307946436
Author: 
Edwidge Danticat
Publication Date: 
2011-09-20
Publisher: 
Vintage

The Dew Breaker

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42.25 BBD

We meet him late in life: a quiet man, a good father and husband, a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, a landlord and barber with a terrifying scar across his face. As the book unfolds, moving seamlessly between Haiti in the 1960s and New York City today, we enter the lives of those around him, and learn that he has also kept a vital, dangerous secret. Edwidge Danticat’s brilliant exploration of the “dew breaker”--or torturer--s an unforgettable story of love, remorse, and hope; of personal and political rebellions; and of the compromises we make to move beyond the most intimate brushes with history. It firmly establishes her as one of America’s most essential writers.

ISBN/SKU: 
1400034299
Author: 
Edwidge Danticat
Publication Date: 
2005-03-08
Publisher: 
Vintage
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