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World View: Some Random Thoughts From A Cultural Commuter, William Harman

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

William Harman is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion.

The Institutionalization Of Palestinian Identity In Egypt, Maha Ahmed Dajani

Faculty Books

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[Introduction To] Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical And Critical Sourcebook, Daryl Cumber Dance

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The beginnings of Caribbean literature lie hidden In the folklore of the plantation era and in the prim, condescending travelogues, the exotic novels, and the apparently naive slave narratives - often authored by Whites - that began to appear as early as the eighteenth century. Francis Williams, the classically educated Black poet of 18th century Jamaica, used conventional Augustan poetics to protest racism and assert the common humanity of mankind. The vision draws from Caribbean life. By the 19th century some black poets began to write of their own concerns and experiences, some writing in the local vernacular.

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