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New Perspectives on Hispanic Caribbean Studies

Author : Magdalena López
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030514986
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on Hispanic Caribbean Studies written by Magdalena López and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the main contributions of Hispanic cultural products and practices today? This book is a collection of essays on new critical trends in Hispanic Caribbean thinking. It offers an update on the state of Hispanic Caribbean studies through the discussion of diverse theoretical perspectives around notions of affect, archipelagic thinking, deterritoriality, and queer experiences and subjectivities. These eccentric Caribbean and aquatic imaginaries move beyond those that are circumscribed by identity, nation, insularity, and the colonial epistemologies derived from these conceptions. Due to its cultural and historical specificities, the Hispanic Caribbean constitutes a focus of study crucial to re-thinking global dynamics today.

Beyond the Blood, the Beach & the Banana

Author : Sandra Courtman
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9766371822
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Blood, the Beach & the Banana written by Sandra Courtman and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Blood, the Beach and the Banana emphasises the significance of the Caribbean in an increasingly globalised social world and draws attention to the contribution that scholarship in Caribbean Studies makes in coming to terms with a multi-cultural heritage. The compilation deliberately ranges in focus across periods, geographies, linguistic divisions and subject matter to present the fruition of significant research projects by 25 researchers from the Caribbean, North America and Europe. Contributors on the Hispanic, Dutch, African, Indian and Anglophone Caribbean juxtaposed with work on the Caribbean diasporas of the USA, UK, Canada and the Netherlands enrich the text with multiple perspectives.

Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity

Author : Maria Cristina Fumagalli
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813929997
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Book Synopsis Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity by : Maria Cristina Fumagalli

Download or read book Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity written by Maria Cristina Fumagalli and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking up the challenge of redefining modernity from a Caribbean perspective instead of assuming that the North Atlantic view of modernity is universal, Maria Cristina Fumagalli shows how the Caribbean's contributions to the modern world not only provide a more accurate account of the past but also have the potential to change the way in which we imagine the future. Fumagalli uses the myth of Medusa's gaze turning people into stone to describe the way North Atlantic modernity freezes its "others" into a state of perpetual backwardness that produces an ethnocentric narrative based on homogenization, vilification, and disempowerment that actively ignores what fails to conform to the story it wants to tell about itself. In analyzing narratives of modernity that originate in the Caribbean, the author explores the region's refusal to succumb to Medusa's spell and highlights its strategies to outstare the Gorgon. Reflecting a diversity of texts, genres, and media, the chapters focus on sixteenth-century engravings and paintings from the Netherlands and Italy, a scientific romance produced at the turn of the twentieth century by the king of the Caribbean island Redonda, contemporary collections of poetry from the anglophone Caribbean, a historical novel by the Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé, a Latin epic, a Homeric hymn, ancient Egyptian rites, fairy tales, romances from England and Jamaica, a long narrative poem by the Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott, and paintings by artists from Europe and the Americas spanning the seventeenth century to the present. Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity offers an original and creative contribution to what it means to be modern.

New Perspectives in Caribbean Tourism

Author : Marcella Daye
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135904340
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives in Caribbean Tourism written by Marcella Daye and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean is one of the most tourism dependent regions of the world. This edited volume extends beyond the frontiers of normative perspectives of tourism development to incorporate "new" ideas and perspectives that relate to the socio-cultural, political and economic realities of these societies. This edited text therefore explores tourism in t

A New Perspective on Poverty in the Caribbean

Author : Juliet Melville
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9766372780
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (663 download)

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Book Synopsis A New Perspective on Poverty in the Caribbean by : Juliet Melville

Download or read book A New Perspective on Poverty in the Caribbean written by Juliet Melville and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Perspective on Poverty in the Caribbean reflects on the current approaches to the challenge of poverty reduction in the context of the findings of the qualitative and quantitative analyses and identifies some critical ingredients for successful poverty-reduction interventions around which a regional consensus could be built. The role and nature of participation, the policy environment for social services delivery are considered along with specific poverty reduction interventions and the general approach to poverty reduction in the Caribbean.

Caribbean New Orleans

Author : Cécile Vidal
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146964519X
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Caribbean New Orleans written by Cécile Vidal and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery there as well as the African slaves who were forced to toil for them. Casting early New Orleans as a Caribbean outpost of the French Empire rather than as a North American frontier town, Cecile Vidal reveals the persistent influence of the Antilles, especially Saint-Domingue, which shaped the city's development through the eighteenth century. In so doing, she urges us to rethink our usual divisions of racial systems into mainland and Caribbean categories. Drawing on New Orleans's rich court records as a way to capture the words and actions of its inhabitants, Vidal takes us into the city's streets, market, taverns, church, hospitals, barracks, and households. She explores the challenges that slow economic development, Native American proximity, imperial rivalry, and the urban environment posed to a social order that was predicated on slave labor and racial hierarchy. White domination, Vidal demonstrates, was woven into the fabric of New Orleans from its founding. This comprehensive history of urban slavery locates Louisiana's capital on a spectrum of slave societies that stretched across the Americas and provides a magisterial overview of racial discourses and practices during the formative years of North America's most intriguing city.

Autofiction and Advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean

Author : Renée Brenda Larrier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813030050
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Autofiction and Advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean by : Renée Brenda Larrier

Download or read book Autofiction and Advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean written by Renée Brenda Larrier and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes first-person narratives by five Francophone Caribbean writers - Joseph Zobel, Patrick Chamoiseau, Gisele Pineau, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse Conde - that manifest distinctive interaction among narrators, protagonists, characters, and readers through a layering of voices, languages, time, sources, and identities.

Beyond Fragmentation

Author : Juanita De Barros
Publisher : Markus Wiener Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Fragmentation written by Juanita De Barros and published by Markus Wiener Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, leading scholars pull together some of the most recent research on the key themes of Caribbean history: slavery, the transition to freedom, colonialism, and decolonization. Although all parts of the Caribbean experienced these phases, the manner in which they did so differed significantly, in part because of their distinct imperial histories. Contemporary fragmentation and insularity have led to significant variations in the region's historiography. The contributors examine the divergent historiographical and methodological developments in the British, French, Spanish, and Dutch Caribbean. By addressing these four linguistic areas of the Caribbean, they aim to overcome the traditional differences imposed by language and in the process to explore hotly debated subjects and new directions in Caribbean scholarship.

Perspectives on the Caribbean

Author : Philip W. Scher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405105658
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on the Caribbean written by Philip W. Scher and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: perspectives on The Caribbean perspectives on The Caribbean “Genuflecting to no tired metaphors, this is a refreshing collection of cross-disciplinary voices that compel new ways of seeing and thinking about the still undiscovered Caribbean.” Patricia Mohammed, University of the west Indies, St Augustine Presenting a broad understanding of the complex region of the Caribbean, Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation provides a variety of viewpoints on the rich spectrum of Caribbean culture. Essays, carefully chosen from a vast body of existing literature, expose readers to a variety of approaches, voices and topics that have emerged in Caribbean studies. Readings are interdisciplinary in nature and integrate themes from history, folklore, sociology, anthropology and political economy. Both contemporary viewpoints and classic readings reveal how the Caribbean has led scholars to new ways of exploring cultural hybridity in contemporary society. Each section includes brief introductions to put the readings in context with the connections between modern Caribbean culture and its historical roots, and also includes suggested readings for more in-depth study. Perspectives on the Caribbean offers revealing insights into one of the most diverse and complex regions in the Americas.

Building a Nation

Author : Eric D. Duke
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063728
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Building a Nation written by Eric D. Duke and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caribbean Studies Association Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award - Honorable Mention The initial push for a federation among British Caribbean colonies might have originated among colonial officials and white elites, but the banner for federation was quickly picked up by Afro-Caribbean activists who saw in the possibility of a united West Indian nation a means of securing political power and more. In Building a Nation, Eric Duke moves beyond the narrow view of federation as only relevant to Caribbean and British imperial histories. By examining support for federation among many Afro-Caribbean and other black activists in and out of the West Indies, Duke convincingly expands and connects the movement's history squarely into the wider history of political and social activism in the early to mid-twentieth century black diaspora. Exploring the relationships between the pursuit of Caribbean federation and black diaspora politics, Duke convincingly posits that federation was more than a regional endeavor; it was a diasporic, black nation-building undertaking--with broad support in diaspora centers such as Harlem and London--deeply immersed in ideas of racial unity, racial uplift, and black self-determination. A volume in this series New World Diasporas, edited by Kevin A. Yelvington

City of Islands

Author : Tammy L. Brown
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626746397
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book City of Islands written by Tammy L. Brown and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tammy L. Brown uses the life stories of Caribbean intellectuals as “windows” into the dynamic history of immigration to New York and the long battle for racial equality in modern America. The majority of the 150,000 black immigrants who arrived in the United States during the first-wave of Caribbean immigration to New York hailed from the English-speaking Caribbean—mainly Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad. Arriving at the height of the Industrial Revolution and a new era in black culture and progress, these black immigrants dreamed of a more prosperous future. However, northern-style Jim Crow hindered their upward social mobility. In response, Caribbean intellectuals delivered speeches and sermons, wrote poetry and novels, and created performance art pieces challenging the racism that impeded their success. Brown traces the influences of religion as revealed at Unitarian minister Ethelred Brown's Harlem Community Church and in Richard B. Moore's fiery speeches on Harlem street corners during the age of the “New Negro.” She investigates the role of performance art and Pearl Primus's declaration that “dance is a weapon for social change” during the long civil rights movement. Shirley Chisholm's advocacy for women and all working-class Americans in the House of Representatives and as a presidential candidate during the peak of the Feminist Movement moves the book into more overt politics. Novelist Paule Marshall's insistence that black immigrant women be seen and heard in the realm of American Arts and Letters at the advent of “multiculturalism” reveals the power of literature. The wide-ranging styles of Caribbean campaigns for social justice reflect the expansive imaginations and individual life stories of each intellectual Brown studies. In addition to deepening our understanding of the long battle for racial equality in America, these life stories reveal the powerful interplay between personal and public politics.

Caribbean Exchanges

Author : Susan Dwyer Amussen
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807888834
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Caribbean Exchanges written by Susan Dwyer Amussen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English colonial expansion in the Caribbean was more than a matter of migration and trade. It was also a source of social and cultural change within England. Finding evidence of cultural exchange between England and the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century, Susan Dwyer Amussen uncovers the learned practice of slaveholding. As English colonists in the Caribbean quickly became large-scale slaveholders, they established new organizations of labor, new uses of authority, new laws, and new modes of violence, punishment, and repression in order to manage slaves. Concentrating on Barbados and Jamaica, England's two most important colonies, Amussen looks at cultural exports that affected the development of race, gender, labor, and class as categories of legal and social identity in England. Concepts of law and punishment in the Caribbean provided a model for expanded definitions of crime in England; the organization of sugar factories served as a model for early industrialization; and the construction of the "white woman" in the Caribbean contributed to changing notions of "ladyhood" in England. As Amussen demonstrates, the cultural changes necessary for settling the Caribbean became an important, though uncounted, colonial export.

Pathologies of Paradise

Author : Supriya M. Nair
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813935199
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Pathologies of Paradise written by Supriya M. Nair and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pathologies of Paradise presents the rich complexity of anglophone Caribbean literature from pluralistic perspectives that contest the reduction of the region to Edenic or infernal stereotypes. But rather than reiterate the familiar critiques of these stereotypes, Supriya Nair draws on the trope of the detour to plumb the depths of anti-paradise discourse, showing how the Caribbean has survived its history of colonization and slavery. In her reading of authors such as Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, V. S. Naipaul, Zadie Smith, Junot Díaz, and Pauline Melville, among others, she examines dominant symbols and events that shape the literature and history of postslavery and postcolonial societies: the garden and empire, individual and national trauma, murder and massacre, contagion and healing, grotesque humor and the carnivalesque. In ranging across multiple contexts, generations, and genres, the book maps a syncretic and flexible approach to Caribbean literature that demonstrates the supple literary cartographies of New World identities.

The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean

Author : Ken Chitwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781626379480
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean written by Ken Chitwood and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Repeating Island

Author : Antonio Benitez-Rojo
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822318651
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book The Repeating Island written by Antonio Benitez-Rojo and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Benítez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benítez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean—the area’s discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics—there emerges an “island” of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Benítez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillén, Carpentier, García Márquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodríguez Juliá.

Trouillot Remixed

Author : Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478021535
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Trouillot Remixed written by Michel-Rolph Trouillot and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of writings from Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot includes his most famous, lesser known, and hard to find writings that demonstrate his enduring importance to Caribbean studies, anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, and politically engaged scholarship more broadly.

Puerto Rican Women's History: New Perspectives

Author : Felix Matos-Rodriguez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317461606
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Puerto Rican Women's History: New Perspectives written by Felix Matos-Rodriguez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the topics in gender and history of Puerto Rican women. Organized chronologically and covering the 19th and 20th centuries, it deal with issues of slavery, emancipation, wage work, women and politics, women's suffrage, industrialization, migration and Puerto Rican women in New York.