Simone Schwarz-Bart with
André Schwarz-Bart
TRANSLATED BY ROSE-MYRIAM
RÉJOUIS, VAL VINOKUROV, AND STEPHANIE DAVAL. WITH A FOREWORD BY HOWARD
DODSON
Heroines of the Slavery
Era weaves oral tradition, folk legends and stories, songs and poems, historical
accounts, and personal writings from North and South America and the Caribbean,
from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
These women of the slavery era include Aqualtune, a princess from Congo enslaved
in Brazil and the Caribbean, who led an army of ten thousand warriors in the
Battle of Mbwila; Anastasia, an African slave in Brazil, who today is considered
the patron saint of Brazil's blacks; Solitude, a slave in the French West Indies,
the leader of the survivors of the La Goyave and legendary in Guadeloupe to
this day; Phillis Wheatley, a slave in Boston, a child prodigy and brilliant
woman whose poetry is among the finest from the early American era; Harriet
Tubman, heroine of the Underground Railroad who helped hundreds of other slaves
escape to freedom in the United States and Canada; Ellen Craft, a slave who
successfully escaped to Philadelphia with her husband; Sojourner Truth, famed
orator on behalf of the rights of women and the abolition of slavery; and many
others.
Simone Schwarz-Bart is
the author of six novels and a play, which have been translated and published
in many languages; Between Two Worlds and The Bridge of Beyond have been published
in English. André Schwarz-Bart is the author of three novels, including
Le Dernier des justes (The Last of the Just), which was awarded the 1959 Prix
Goncourt and has been translated into twenty languages. Rose-Myriam Réjouis
and Val Vinokurov have previously translated two works by French novelist Patrick
Chamoiseau: Solibo Magnificent and Texaco. Stephanie Daval is completing a Ph.D.
in comparative literature at Princeton University, specializing in Francophone
literature.
October 2002
250 pp. color illus. 9 x 12
ISBN 0-299-17260-0 Cloth $49.95 t
Cultural Identity and Self-Representation
Sandra Pouchet Paquet
Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/3480.htm
The rich literary tradition
of English-language autobiography
in the Caribbean, from Mary Prince and Jean Rhys to Derek
Walcott, V. S. Naipaul, and Jamaica Kincaid
Despite the range and
abundance of autobiographical writing from
the Anglophone Caribbean, this book is the first to explore this
literature fully. It covers works from the colonial era up to
present-day AIDS memoirs and assesses the links between more
familiar works by George Lamming, C. L. R. James, Derek Walcott,
V. S. Naipaul, and Jamaica Kincaid and less frequently cited works
by the Hart sisters, Mary Prince, Mary Seacole, Claude McKay,
Yseult Bridges, Jean Rhys, Anna Mahase, and Kamau Brathwaite.
Sandra Pouchet Paquet
charts the intersection of multiple,
contradictory viewpoints of the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean,
differing concepts of community and levels of social integration,
and a persistent pattern of both resistance and accommodation
within island states that were largely shaped by British colonial
practice from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-twentieth
century. The texts examined here reflect the entire range of
autobiographical practice, including the slave narrative and
testimonial, written and oral narratives, spiritual autobiographies,
fiction, serial autobiography, verse, diaries and journals, elegy, and
parody.
"Truly breaks new
ground in the field of Caribbean letters."
—Carole Boyce Davies, Northwestern University
Sandra Pouchet Paquet
is professor of English at the University of
Miami and is the author of The Novels of George Lamming. She
has been guest editor of the journals Callaloo and West Indian
Literature. She was born in Trinidad.
July 2002
304 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN 0-299-17690-8 Cloth $60.00s
ISBN 0-299-17694-0 Paper $24.95s
Kenneth Olwig
FOREWORD BY YI-FU TUAN
http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/3489.htm
A masterful work of scholarship
with implications for
geography, literature, theater, history, political science, law,
and environmental studies
Landscape, Nature, and
the Body Politic explores the origins and
lasting influences of two contesting but intertwined discourses that
persist today when we use the words landscape, country, scenery,
nature, national. In the first sense, the land is a physical and
bounded body of terrain upon which the nation state is constructed
(e.g., the purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain, from
sea to shining sea). In the second, the country is constituted
through its people and established through time and precedence
(e.g., land where our fathers died, land of the Pilgrims' pride).
Kenneth Olwig's extended exploration of these discourses is a
masterful work of scholarship both broad and deep, which opens
up new avenues of thinking in the areas of geography, literature,
theater, history, political science, law, and environmental studies.
Olwig tracks these ideas
though Anglo-American history, starting
with seventeenth-century conflicts between the Stuart kings and the
English Parliament, and the Stuart dream of uniting Scotland with
England and Wales into one nation on the island of Britain. He uses
a royal production of a Ben Jonson masque, with stage sets by
architect Inigo Jones, as a touchstone for exploring how the notion
of "landscape" expands from artful stage scenery to a geopolitical
ideal. Olwig pursues these contested concepts of the body politic
from Europe to America and to global politics, illuminating a host of
topics, from national parks and environmental planning to theories
of polity and virulent nationalistic movements.
"A highly original
and brilliantly argued case for the power of
landscape. Olwig shows how the concept of landscape has
historically affected theater, literature, art, nation building, law,
racism, nature conservation, and wilderness movements."—Robert
David Sack, University of WisconsinMadison
Kenneth Olwig is professor
of geography at the University of
Trondheim in Norway and the author of Nature's Ideological
Landscape.
June 2002
352 pp. 42 b/w photos, & drawings
6 x 9
ISBN 0-299-17420-4 Cloth $65.00s
ISBN 0-299-17424-7 Paper $24.95s
The Documentary History
of the Ratification of the Constitution, Volume VI
Ratification of the Constitution by the States, Massachusetts, Volume 4
Edited by John P. Kaminski
and Gaspare J. Saladino
"A
reference work's reference work."—Journal of American History "A
splendid scholarly achievement."—American Historical Review
Newspaper accounts, speeches, letters, diaries, and a trove of other primary
documents bring American history richly to life in this acclaimed documentary
history of the ratification of the United States Constitution.
John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, and Richard Leffler have been
editing this series since 1970. Charles H. Schoenleber joined the staff in
1987.
July 2001
440 pp. 1 map 6 x 9
ISBN 0-87020-333-9 Cloth $75.00s
http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2035.htm
Patty Loew
http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2151.htm
The first book to present
the history of Wisconsin's Native peoples from
their own perspective
From origin stories to contemporary struggles over treaty rights and
sovereignty issues, Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and
Renewal explores Wisconsin's rich Native tradition. Each chapter is a
compact tribal history of one of the state's Indian nations—Ojibwe,
Potawatomi, Oneida, Menominee, Mohican and Brothertown, and
Ho-Chunk—and the book relies on the historical perspectives of Native
people. Author Patty Loew focuses on oral tradition—stories, songs, the
recorded words of Indian treaty negotiators, and interviews—as well as
other
untapped Native sources, such as tribal newspapers, to present a distinctly
different view of history.
Elders and tribal historians from each of the twelve Native communities
represented in the book participated in the book's development—making
suggestions, recommending sources, and offering criticism. Indian Nations
of Wisconsin is illustrated with more than seventy photographs.
Patty Loew is an enrolled member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior
Ojibwe and recipient of the Outstanding Service Award of the Great Lakes
Intertribal Council. Formerly a news reporter and anchor for television stations
in Canada, Washington, Oregon, and Wisconsin, she is assistant professor of
life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, co-host
of WeekEnd on Wisconsin Public Television, and producer of award-winning
documentaries including No Word for Goodbye, Spring of Discontent,
Throwaway Future, and Nation Within a Nation.
November 2001
160 pp. 75 b/w and duotone
photos, 6 maps 8 x 9
ISBN 0-87020-332-0 Paper $21.95t
ISBN 0-87020-335-5 Cloth $39.95s
Robert A. Birmingham and
Leslie E. Eisenberg
The first comprehensive book on mounds of the Midwest in 150 years
More mounds were built by ancient Native American societies in Wisconsin
than in any other region of North America--between 15,000 and 20,000
mounds, at least 4,000 of which remain today. Most impressive are the effigy
mounds, huge earthworks sculpted into the shapes of birds, animals, and
other forms, not found anywhere else in the world in such concentrations. This
book, written for general readers but incorporating the most recent research,
offers a comprehensive overview of these intriguing earthworks and answers
the questions, Who built the mounds? When and why were they built?
The archaeological record indicates that most ancient societies in the upper
Midwest built mounds of various kinds sometime between about 800 B.C. and
A.D. 1200; the effigy mounds were probably built between A.D. 800 and A.D.
1200. Using evidence drawn from archaeology, ethnography, ethnohistory, the
traditions and beliefs of present-day Native Americans in the Midwest, and
recent research and theories of other archaeologists, Birmingham and
Eisenberg present an important new interpretation of the effigy mound groups
as "cosmological maps" that model ancient belief systems and social
relations. It is likely that the distant ancestors of several present-day Native
American groups were among the mound-building societies, in part because
these groups' current clan structures and beliefs are similar to the symbolism
represented in the effigy mounds.
Indian Mounds of Wisconsin includes a travel guide to sites that can be
visited by the public, including many in state, county, and local parks.
"No book with this broad coverage of Wisconsin's mounds—or even mounds
of the Midwest—has been published for some 150 years. This up-to-date
survey will be useful for general readers and students but also will benefit
professional archaeologists and scholars in related fields."—Robert
L. Hall,
Field Museum and University of Illinois at Chicago
Robert A. Birmingham is the state archaeologist in the Division of Historic
Preservation and Leslie E. Eisenberg is a forensic anthropologist and
coordinator of the Burial Sites Preservation Program, both at the State
Historical Society of Wisconsin.
November 2000
264 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN 0-299-16870-0 Cloth $45.00 s
ISBN 0-299-16874-3 Paper $18.95 t