Vol. 7. No. 4
December, 2004
Tel. Ext. 3363
e-mail: hummail@library.uwi.tt
EDITORIAL:
Summer Crossing, the story of a young
socialite’s summer in New York, was
thought to have been abandoned by the
then 20-year-old author in 1944, when he
started to write the novel that would make
his name – Other voices, Others Rooms.
The
Vanderbilte-journal
of
LusoHispanic
Studies
was
recently
inaugurated.
It is an interdisciplinary
academic publication managed by the
Department of Spanish and Portuguese at
Vanderbilt University.
Created as an
open forum for an interdisciplinary
dialogue on specific debates within LusoHispanic
Studies,
this
publication
welcomes proposals for monographic
volumes that address the theoretical,
political and cultural connections among
diverse fields of study in and on Latin
America as well as on Inter-American and
transatlantic topics. For more information
please visit: http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/spansport
/eJournalindex
Deposed Haitian President, Jean-Bertrand
Aristide and his wife, Mildred, have been
appointed honorary research fellows in the
Department of Politics at the distancelearning University of South Africa
(Unisa).
The university’s Principal,
Barney
Pityana,
confirmed
the
appointments and indicated, “Dr. Aristide
has an abiding interest in academic life
and development.
His attachment at
Unisa will give him the opportunity to
undertake research and publish in learned
journals”.
An unpublished handwritten first novel by
Truman Capote, long thought lost, has
been found in a box of photographs and
documents abandoned by the author in
1966. It is entitled Summer Crossing and
has gone on sale at Sotheby’s in New York,
where it carries an estimated value of
US$80,000.
Grain Magazine, one of Canada’s leading
literacy journals is holding its 17th Annual
Short Grain Writing Contest.
There are three categories: 1.
Prose poem – a Lyric poem
written as a prose in 500 words
or less
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2.
3.
Post card story – a work of
narrative fiction in 500 words or
less
Dramatic monologue – a self
contained dramatic speech
given by a single character in
500 words or less
For more information please visit: www.grainmagazine.ca
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher
Education is now available on the Taylor
& Francis website. Please visit: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk
Reginald Clarke (Mr.)
Editor
ACQUISITIONS for the month of
December totalled 104 TITLES in the
following subject areas: Call No.
AC
B-BD;
BG-BJ
BL-BX
CC
D-DP
DS
DT
E
F
L
M
N
P
PA
Call No.
PB, -PE
Germanic Language
Russian /Spanish
Language Literature
PJ-PK
Oriental Language
and Literature
PL
African Language
and Literature
PM
Creole/Indian
Language
PN
Literary Criticism,
Mass Media
PQ
French Language
and Literature
PR
English and West
Indian Literature
PS - PZ
American Literature &
European Literature
Z4- Z8387 Library Science
Z
Bibliographies
ZA
Internet
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104
PG
2
3
7
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7
15
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INTERESTING TITLES for the month of
December included: -
Subject Area
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General Information
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Philosophy
7
Religion
8
Archaeology
1
European History
13
Eastern History
5
African History
2
North American
History
2
South/Central
America and
Caribbean History
2
Education
1
Music
1
Visual Arts
4
Linguistics
1
Greek/Latin
Language and
Literature
2
Subject Area
Amount
Celtic/Romanic/
Bob Marley, Lyrical
Kwame Dawes, 2002.
genius/
by
“The quintessential folk poet of the
Developing World, Bob Marley
influenced generations of musicians
and writers throughout the Western
hemisphere.”
[Call No.: ML420.M3313 D8 2002]

Caribbean women writers. Fiction in
English/edited by Mary Conde and
Thorunn Lonsdale, 1999.
“This
diverse
and
challenging
collection of prose is an invaluable tool
both for the general reader and the
specialist student, meeting the urgent
need for detailed critical analysis in
this rapidly expanding field of
interest.”
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how
best
to
characterize
the
relationship of these two disciplines.”
[Call No.: PR9205.4. C37 1999]

Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales. A
short introduction/ by John C. Hirsh,
2003.
[Call No.: PN49 L4985 2002]
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“John Hirsh offers persuasive and
vivid evocations of Chaucer’s life and
times, and his thought world, which
provide useful contexts for his
writings.
An excellent and original
introduction.”
“Piterberg reconstructs the Ottoman
narration of the 17th century from the
fundamental text, produced in the
early 1620s, until the composition of
the state narrative at the end of the 17th
century.”
[Call No.: PR1905. H54 2003]

Elizabeth I. Autograph compositions
and foreign language originals/ edited
by Janel Mueller and Leah S. Marcus,
2003.
[Call No.: DR438.8.P58 2003]

“Brings together for the first time in
one volume the speeches, poems,
prayers, and selected letters of Queen
Elizabeth I (1533-1603), all in
modernized spelling and punctuation.”
The essential Foucault.
Selections
from the essential works of Foucault,
1954-1984/ edited by Paul Rabinon
and Nikolas Rose, 1994.
[Call No.: PS310 M57 P38 2002]

“Foucault would, undoubtedly, have
been wryly skeptical about the growth
of “Foucault studies” and the related
attempt to discipline his thought and
turn it into an orthodoxy.”
Religion and Rajput women.
The
ethic of protection in contemporary
narratives/ by Lindsey Harlan, 1991.
“In this book Harlan explores the
relationship between caste and gender
in the perspective of Rajput women.”
[Call No.: B2430 F722 E5 2003]

Poetry in the museums of modernism.
Yeats, Pound, Moore, Stein/ by
Catherine E. Paul, 2002.
“Paul’s book illuminates the role of
early 20th century museums in cultural
production and offers a fresh
encounter with modernist poetry’s
aesthetic
demands,
political
motivations, and material production.”
[Call No.: DA350 A25 2003]

An Ottoman tragedy.
History and
histography at play/ by Gabriel
Piterberg, 2003.
[Call No.: DS432. R3 H37 1991]
Literary
philosophers.
Borges,
Calvino, Eco/ edited by Jorge J.E.
Gracia et al, 2002.
New issues of the following JOURNALS
contain important and helpful articles: -
“Despite a recent generation of
scholarship that examines anew the
practices of philosophy and literary
fiction, vexing questions linger about
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Afro-Hispanic Review. Vol. 23, No. 2,
Fall 2004.
In this issue you will find: “Sandra
Mariá
Esteves’s
Nuyorican
poetics:
the
signifying
difference”/
by
Miriam DeCosta -Willis
“Caridad Atencio: cronica de un
cuerpo”/ par Hossiri Godo-Solo
“The Spanish language presence
in
Tangier,
Morocco:
a
sociolinguistic perspective”/by
Lofti Sayahi
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[Call No.: PQ1 F873 R4]
 Language in Society Vol. 33, No. 5,
November 2004.
[Call No.: PN841 A1 A258 R4]
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In this issue you will find: -
Comparative studies in society and
history Vol. 46, No. 4, October 2004.
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“The Southern Fury of the
Sudan as a frontier society,
1820-1980”/ by M.C. Jedrej
“Between Mimesis and alerity:
art, gift and diplomacy in
colonial India, 1770-1800”/ by
Natasha Eaton
“Post-colonial
studies
of
Native America.
A review
essay”/by Guisca Bierwert
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 Lingua Vol. 115, Issues 1-2, January –
February 2005.
In this issue you will find: -
Essays in Criticism Vol. LIV, No. 4,
October 2004.
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In this issue you will find: “Validating the high life in Of
Arthour and of Merlin and
Kyng Alisaunder”/ by John
Scattergood
“Biographical uncertainty”/ by
Ian Donaldson
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“The
South
Caucasian
languages”/ by W. Boeder
“The North-West Caucasian”/
by G. Hewitt
“The East Caucasian language
family”/ by H.van den Berg
[Call No.: P1 A1 L755]
 Past and Present: a journal of historical
studies No. 184, August 2004.
[Call No.: PR1 E75]

“Writing as a problem: African
grassroots writing, economies
of literacy and globalization”/
by Jan Blommaert
“The relevance of repair for
classroom correction”/ by
Douglas MacBeth
“Evaluation in media texts: a
cross-cultural
linguistic
investigation ”/ by Lily Chen
[Call No.: P41 A1 L287 S6]
[Call No.: D1. C7]

“A bellyful of literature: the
novel in 2003 ”/ by William
Cloonan
“L’anńee théatrale 2003”/ by
Martine Antle
“Bloc-Notes culturel: l’anńee
2003”/ by James P. McNab
The French Review Vol. 78 No. 1,
October 2004.
In this issue you will find: -
In it you will find: 4
“Royal authority and justice
during the French religious
wars”/ by Penny Roberts
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“Government and information
in
seventeenth-century
England”/ by Paul Slack
“Minority
languages
and
literary revivals”/ by JoanLluis Marfany
ARTICLES OF INTEREST IN
JOURNALS
1. Spellbinding ways with words/ Kate
Lee. TES Teacher, Nov 26, 2004.
This article states that hearing a voice
read a story; with the use of dramatic
pause and repetition of key phrases can
produce the spell- bound effect which
has a great influence on a young child’s
desire to listen.
[Call No.: D1 P291 P9]
Features from the
School of Education Library
2. What every teacher needs to know
about comprehension/ Laura S. Pardo.
The Reading Teacher, 58 (3), November
2004.
For the month of December the Library
received fourteen (14) new books.
This article synthesizes the research on
comprehension and makes connections
to the classroom practice.
1. Children’s literature in an integrated
curriculum: The authentic voice /
edited by Bette Bosma and Nancy De
Vries Guth. International Reading
Association and Teachers College
Press, 1995.
3. With boys and girls in mind / Michael
Gurian
and
Kathy
Stevens.
Educational
Leadership,
62(3),
November 2004.
[Call No.: LB 1575 C55 1995]
This article identifies ways in which
the
classroom
settings
can
accommodate the differences in the
ways males and females learn.
2. How to increase phonemic awareness
in the classroom/ Lynn Settlow and
Margarita
Jacovino.
Scarecrow
Education, 2004.
[Call No.: LB 1573.3 S48 2004]
3. Introductory sociology/ Tony Bilton et
al. 4th ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
WEBSITES OF INTEREST TO
TEACHERS AND EDUCATORS
[Call No.: HM 586 I57 2002]
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4. Solutions for promoting principalteacher trust/ Phyllis A. Gimbel.
Scarecrow Education, 2003.
http://scholar.google.com
This site can help researchers to locate
research articles.
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www.scirus.com
This site is a science specific search
engine for scientists and researchers.
[Call No.: LB 2831.9 G56 2003]
Janet Fullerton- Rawlins
Librarian II
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