Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing

Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing
Author: Nancy Morejón
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1985
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

These poems by Nancy Morejon are the voice of the new Cuba, the Cuba born after the Revolution. In her lines, Nancy Morejon captures the rhythms, the sounds, the colors, the people, that make up the rich and complex texture of Revolutionary Cuba. --Amazon.com.

Looking Within

Looking Within
Author: Nancy Morejón
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780814330371

A bilingual edition of poetry from an important Cuban poet.

Precarious Forms

Precarious Forms
Author: Candice Amich
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-05-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0810141841

Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas explores how performance art and poetry convey utopian desires even in the bleakest of times. Candice Amich argues that utopian longing in the neoliberal Americas paradoxically arises from the material conditions of socioeconomic crisis. Working across national, linguistic, and generic boundaries, Amich identifies new political and affective modes of reception in her examination of resistant art forms. She locates texts in the activist struggles of the Global South, where neoliberal extraction and exploitation most palpably reanimate the colonial and imperial legacies of earlier stages of capitalism. The poets and artists surveyed in Precarious Forms enact gestures of solidarity and mutual care at sites of neoliberal dispossession. In her analysis of poems, body art, and multimedia installations that illuminate the persistence of a radical utopian imaginary in the Americas, Amich engages critical debates in performance studies, Latin American cultural studies, literature, and art history.

Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations

Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations
Author: Retha Powers
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 1610
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0316250686

A comprehensive, all-new collection bringing together the most thoughtful, inspiring, and wisest voices from the Black diaspora across history. Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations paints a rich canvas of Black history through time. Five thousand quotes are culled from the time of Ancient Egypt through American slavery, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Era, Apartheid, to the present day. With a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and passages from authors, artists, scientists, philosophers, theologians, activists, politicians, and many others, Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations will appeal not only to quote aficionados and researchers, but also to history buffs. Aesop's Fables and the Holy Bible are in the same company as Nelson Mandela and President Obama; Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison; Bob Marley and Jay-Z. A wonderful reference tool and gift, Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations is sure to follow in the footsteps of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, becoming a beloved authority.

The Cuba Reader

The Cuba Reader
Author: Aviva Chomsky
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2019-05-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1478004568

Tracking Cuban history from 1492 to the present, The Cuba Reader includes more than one hundred selections that present myriad perspectives on Cuba's history, culture, and politics. The volume foregrounds the experience of Cubans from all walks of life, including slaves, prostitutes, doctors, activists, and historians. Combining songs, poetry, fiction, journalism, political speeches, and many other types of documents, this revised and updated second edition of The Cuba Reader contains over twenty new selections that explore the changes and continuities in Cuba since Fidel Castro stepped down from power in 2006. For students, travelers, and all those who want to know more about the island nation just ninety miles south of Florida, The Cuba Reader is an invaluable introduction.

Bridges to Cuba

Bridges to Cuba
Author: Ruth Behar
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780472066117

Cuban and Cuban-American scholars, writers, and artists celebrate the possibility of overcoming divisions of politics and hate

A Joyous Revolt

A Joyous Revolt
Author: Linda Janet Holmes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

At long last—a book-length biography celebrates Toni Cade Bambara, a seminal literary, cultural, and political figure who was among the most widely read and frequently reviewed of the well-regarded black women writers to emerge in the 1970s. A Joyous Revolt: Toni Cade Bambara, Writer and Activist is the first-ever, full-length biography of a trailblazing artist who championed black women in her fiction as well as in her life. This incisive study provides a comprehensive treatment of Bambara's published and unpublished works, and it also documents her emerging vision of her role as an agent of change. The biography allows readers into the personal life of Bambara, offering personal insights into a woman with a strong public persona and friendships with other celebrated artists of her era. Perhaps most important for those seeking to understand and appreciate Bambara's legacy, it connects her oeuvre to the context of her experience and places all of her wide-ranging creative work in the context of her singular vision.

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature
Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Total Pages: 2896
Release: 2015-04-22
Genre: Bio-bibliography
ISBN: 1438140649

Presents articles on feminist literature, including significant authors, themes and history.

Black Studies and the Democratization of American Higher Education

Black Studies and the Democratization of American Higher Education
Author: Charles P. Henry
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2016-12-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319350897

This book aims to expand what scholars know and who is included in this discussion about black studies, which aids in the democratization of American higher education and the deconstruction of traditional disciplines of high education, to facilitate a sense of social justice. By challenging traditional disciplines, black studies reveals not only the political role of American universities but also the political aspects of the disciplines that constitute their core. While black studies is post-modern in its deconstruction of positivism and universalism, it does not support a radical rejection of all attempts to determine truth. Evolving from a form of black cultural nationalism, it challenges the perceived white cultural nationalist norm and has become a critical multiculturalism that is more global and less gendered. Henry argues for the inclusion of black studies beyond the curriculum of colleges and universities.