This is to inform you that the latest <1995> edition of The
Journal of Afro-Latin America Studies and Literatures-JALAS&L,
ISSN 1051-1865, a 341-page book, has been out and that it has
been highly on demand since its publication. We sincerely thank
our loyal subscribers, i.e., university libraries, subscription
agencies, independent researchers, professors, graduate students,
and the general public for making JALAS&L one of the most sought
after publications in the field of African and Latin American
studies.
The following are some of the essays published in the 1995
JALAS&L:
ARTICLE / AUTHOR PAGE
"Writing, Legitimation, and Ethnicity: Turn-of-the-Century 11
Latin American Lyric," by Jerome Branche (University of
Kentucky).
"Maryse Conde's -Tituba- as Subversion of Essentialism," 29
by Kapanga M. Kasongo (University of Richmond).
"Criollismo and Cultural Hegemony," by Jerry Williams 45
(West Chester University).
"African Roots of Creole Culture in Belize," by Michael 63
C. Stone (University of Texas).
"Relato de una vida y escritura femenina: -Ekomo-, de 77
Maria Nsue Angue," by M'Bare' N'Gom (Morgan State
University).
"Indigenous African Mode of Thought and its Implications 93
for Educating Future World Citizens," by Olugbemiro J.
Jegede (The University of Southern Queensland).
"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Building a West Indian Female 121
Identity," by Pascale de Souza (University of Maryland).
"Construction of Afro-Brazilian Identity in the Theater 139
of the 1950's: The Cases of Dora Seljan and Abdias do
Nascimento," by Sandra Richards (Northwestern University).
"O pedagogico, eixo ideologico no projeto to TEN 167
(Teatro Experimental do Negro)," by Ricardo G.
Muller (Universidade Federal Fluminense).
"Television and the Cultivation of Modern Racism: 191
The Case of Brazil," by Michael Leslie (University
of Florida).
Book Reviews 227
Poetry by Joseph Hurd and Manuel Garcia-Castellon 231
A Selected Annotated Bibliography of Afro-Latin 235
America: Publications from 1989-1994," by
Darien Davis (Coordinator) Middlebury College,
Evelina Maurice-Felicite' (Middlebury College),
Peter Blanchard (University of Toronto),
Michael Mitchell (Arizona State University),
John Garrigus (Jacksonville University)
David L. Beris (University of Southern California),
and Davis A. B. Murray (University of Virginia).
Other Academic Publications 341
In closing, I would like to inform you that the theme for the
1996 JALAS&L will be "RACE AND GENGER IN LATIN AMERICA AND
IBEROPHONE AFRICA." An Internet version of our current "Call for
Papers" will soon be sent to AFROLAT (our Internet forum for
Afro-Latino issues). Also, I will soon start highlighting the
articles of the 1995 JALAS&L, with a short paragraph on each
essay. Thank you again for your support. If possible, please
circulate this and/or any other post you receive from us among
other pertinent Internet discussion groups.
Please address all inquiries directly to:
Prof. Rosangela Maria Vieira, Editor
P.O. Box 2662
Kensington, Maryland 20891-2662
Internet: <rmvieira@cldc.howard.edu>
(For ONLINE subscription information write to:
<rmvieira@cldc.howard.edu>. Requests in writing
should be sent to: JALAS&L, P.O. Box 662, Kensington,
MD 20891-2662.)
(Submitted by Kathleen Palombo King, Technical Editor,
KPKING555@aol.com
& Prof. Rosangela Maria Vieira, Editor and Founder of
JALAS&L.)