First published as Rue Monte au ciel: [Fort-de-France, Martinique, Lesser Antilles]: Editions Desnel, 2003.
Anne Spencer’s identity as an artist grew from her relationship to the natural world. Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden shows how Spencer used the natural world in innovative ways to express her Black womanhood, feminist politics, spirituality, and singular worldview.
Argues that Hamlet's famous phrase not only underscores the blurred boundaries between the warring Protestantism and Catholicism of Shakespeare's time; it is also an appeal for basic spirituality, free from any particular doctrinal scheme.
"This book examines arguments made in the colonial Americas for the gradual mitigation of slavery rather than outright abolition"--Provided by publisher.
This autobiographical novel of alienation and exile explores the alienation of a girl and her grandmother contending with life between two identities. As a young woman of colour and Caribbean ancestry - even though Paris-born - the girl is not accepted as not French enough.
L'histoire du fou, translated here as ""The Story of a Madman"", is a comic satire of the fictional Chief Zoaeteleu and his favourite sons Zoaetoa and Narcisse. Mongo Beti uses this fable to illustrate the problems of a people's disintegrating values in a postcolonial state.
Most of the Old Norse texts that preserve the myths of Ragnarok originated in Iceland. As the first full-length ecocritical study... Læs mere