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The Colored Girl In The Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers By Brenda Chester Doharris (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance
The Colored Girl In The Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers By Brenda Chester Doharris (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance
English Faculty Publications
Brenda Chester DoHarris's The Colored Girl in the Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers joins the company of some of the most memorable works of Caribbean literature, those classic accounts of coming-of-age, such as George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin, V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas, Michael Anthony's The Year in San Fernando, Merle Hodge's Crick Crack, Monkey, Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, Zea Edgell's Beka Lamb, Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John, and Beryl Gilroy's Sunlight on Sweet Water. Like most of the bildungsromans - and …
My Brother By Jamaica Kincaid (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance
My Brother By Jamaica Kincaid (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance
English Faculty Publications
In Jamaica Kincaid's six previous autobiographical novels and essays (At the Bottom of the River, 1984; Annie John, 1985; A Small Place, 1988; Annie, Gwen, Lily, Pam and Julie, 1989; Lucy, 1990; and The Autobiography of My Mother, 1996), her readers have the feeling that she has told all about her troubled life in Antigua and her painful emotional conflicts with her family (especially her mother). We discover with her new memoir, My Brother, however, that some things have been just too painful to tell - until now. Clearly the most obvious …
Beryl Gilroy: A Bio-Literary Overview, Daryl Cumber Dance
Beryl Gilroy: A Bio-Literary Overview, Daryl Cumber Dance
English Faculty Publications
In 1992 when I joined the faculty at the University of Richmond, I taught a class in black women's literature to a group of mainly white students who had previously read little or nothing in this body of literature. One young senior--a white male--did a paper comparing the sympathetic portrayal of the white male character in Beryl Gilroy's Stedman and Joanna and Bebe Moore Campbell's Your Blues Ain't Like Mine. His enthusiasm for the rich body of literature to which I had introduced him continued after he graduated, and he often wrote to me about books he was reading …
[Introduction To] Nosotras Y La Piel: Seleccion De Ensayos De Alfonina Storni, Mariela Méndez, Graciela Queirolo, Alicia Salomone
[Introduction To] Nosotras Y La Piel: Seleccion De Ensayos De Alfonina Storni, Mariela Méndez, Graciela Queirolo, Alicia Salomone
Bookshelf
This edition collects articles published by Alfonsina Storni between 1919 and 1921, covering diverse feminine topics. This is an ironic biography portraying the controversial situations of being a woman.