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The literature of the Caribbean is exceptional, both in language and subject. More than a million and a half Africans, along with many Indians and South Asians, were brought to the Caribbean between the 15th and 19th centuries. Today, their descendants are active in literature and the arts, producing literature with strong and direct ties to traditional African expressions. This literary connection, combined with the tales of survival, exile, resistance, endurance, and emigration to other parts of the Americas, makes for a body of work that is essential for the study of the Caribbean and the Black Diaspora—and indeed central for our understanding of the New World.
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When studying Caribbean history and culture and in particular the art and literature of Caribbean nations, this dictionary will be an invaluable tool. As the culture of the Caribbean is linguistically based on Creole, Dutch, English, French, Spanish, and indigenous languages, this dictionary can help to understand the many linguistic nuances and unique terms and phrases which have emerged in the literature of the postcolonial Caribbean written in English. 20,000 words are covered. 697 pages.
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This is a survey course on the most fundamental writings in Caribbean literature from the 18th century to the present focusing on the question of race, color and the image of the Black. The course covers a wide variety of texts (autobiographic narratives, poetry, narrative and theory) in their original languages spanning a wide spectrum of the insular, continental and diasporic Caribbean world.
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This general article, which defines written and oral literature, describes the development of hybrid languages in the Caribbean. Poetry and autobiographical writings were listed as samples of early writings. Twentieth century writing was divided into "early" and "end of Colonial rule." The most detailed section was called writing "after independence." This was a good introductory article.
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