First published as Rue Monte au ciel: [Fort-de-France, Martinique, Lesser Antilles]: Editions Desnel, 2003.
This first fully annotated critical edition of Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years, this offers the reader extensive... Læs mere
Shows how, at its roots, the image of the blonde was remodeled by women writers in the nineteenth century and actors in the twentieth to keep pace with the... Læs mere
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.
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.