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From: World Literature TodayReaders of Caribbean literature are no strangers to the harsh conditions of the cane field, particularly in the French Antilles during the early twentieth century. Joseph Zobel in La Rue Cases-Negres (1950; Black Shack...
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From: Research in African LiteraturesEstablishing both a social and a personal identity which are not determined by the oppressor has been a recurrent theme of subaltern writers, from postcolonials, to women, to racial and ethnic minorities. Whether spoken...
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From: SymposiumOne of the principal reasons for the success of the poetry of Octavio Paz is that it can be meaningful without being inaccessible and highly refined in form without being meaningless. It is axiomatic that the poet of the...
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From: MELUSAs a child schooled in the British colonial system, West Indian writer Jamaica Kincaid was nourished on a diet of English classics, reading from Shakespeare and Milton by the age of five. Sometimes the canonical works of...
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From: The New York Times Book ReviewIn a certain way, extinction and augury are intertwined. The lineaments of the future can be divined by what the present refuses to support--an idea that is at the heart of The Aguero Sisters, Cristina Garcia's...
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From: in The ExplicatorDespite postcolonial readings of Bharati Mukherjee's novel Jasmine, Western critics have not placed in context the pivotal play of migrations, forced and voluntary, literal and figurative, found in the plural female...