Daughters of the Diaspora: Afra-Hispanic Writers

This book brings together the creative writings of some 20 Hispanophone women of African descent as well as the interpretive writings of some 15 literary critics. Several genres are combined including poetry, short stories, essays, excerpts from novels and personal narratives to create a unique anthology. Featured writes include: Virginia Brindis de Salas, Carmen Colón Pellot, Julia de Burgos, Aida Cartagena Portalatín, Marta Rojas, Eulalia Bernard, Georgina Herrera, Lourdes Casal, Argentina Chiriboga, Nancy Morejón, Excilia Saldaña, Beatriz Santos, Maria Nsue Angüe, Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso, Soleida Ríos, Edelma Zapata Pérez, Yvonne-América Truque, Cristina Cabral, Shirley Campbell, Mayra Santos-Febres.

Literature & Fiction

Willis, Miriam DeCosta

Literary

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Founded Upon the Seas: A History of the Cayman Islands and Their People

<p>This book is the first comprehensive history of the Cayman Islands. Researched and written by the noted Caribbean Historian Michael Craton and the Cayman Islands New History Committee, it explores in detail the social, economic and political history of all three islands. </p>
<p>Researched, written edited and designed over a 6-year period, this book is in several respects a national history. The text and illustrations encompass the most important subjects, facts and events in Cayman History and its analysis of the main currents in Cayman's past is addressed to the reader from a standpoint that is simultaneously modern, scholarly and Caymanian. Based on a wealth of information drawn from archives and libraries in the Caribbean, Europe and North America, the text is illustrated with rare maps, facsimile documents and numerous historical photographs.</p>

Craton, Michael

Committee, The New History

Prehistoric Guiana

For more than 25 years, Denis Williams, one of Guyana's most accomplished scholars, travelled from one end of the country to the other conducting surveys and excavations. The result is the first comprehensive reconstruction of the history and characteristics of human settlement of the Guianas. In this work of painstaking scholarship, Denis Williams integrates a wide variety of evidence from original research with previously published archaeological, geological, ecological, ethnographic climatic and even nutritional data to develop the first major synthesis of the prehistory of Guyana.

Politics & Social Sciences

Williams, Denis

Archaeology

Spanish Jamaica

Despite spanning more than a full century and a half, the Spanish history of Jamaica has remained in virtual obscurity. This English translation of Francisco Morales Padron's Spanish Jamaica originally published in Seville Spain in 1952 as Jamaica Espanol, not only brings to light Spain's contribution to Jamaica's history, but also reveals how this history subsequently affected Spain's colonial fortunes in the Western Hemisphere. Spanish Jamaica provides details of the social, economic and political conditions existing in the island during the period of Spanish rule. Of particular importance is the author's analysis of Jamaica's strategic importance to Spain as a gateway to mainland America and how, by not exploiting this strategic advantage, the Spanish colonial enterprise never realised its full potential.

Padron, Francisco Morales

Gronow, Michael

Moral, Felix Oviedo

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