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23 produkter
Race and the Foundations of Knowledge
Cultural Amnesia in the Academy
Av Joseph Young, Jana Evans Braziel
Häftad, 2006
320 kr
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The hidden impact of race on modern ideals
Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora
Häftad, 2008
287 kr
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Jana Evans Braziel examines how Haitian diaspora writers, performance artists, and musicians address black masculinity through the Haitian Creole concept of gwo nègs, or "big men." She focuses on six artists and their work: writer Dany Laferrière, director Raoul Peck, rap artist Wyclef Jean, artist …
Bodies out of Bounds
Fatness and Transgression
Av Jana Evans Braziel, Kathleen LeBesco
Häftad, 2001
280 kr
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Since World War II, when the diet and fitness industries promoted mass obsession with weight and body shape, fat has been a dirty word. In the United States, fat is seen as repulsive, funny, ugly, unclean, obscene, and above all as something to lose. "Bodies Out of Bounds" challenges these dominant …
Theorizing Diaspora
A Reader
Inbunden, 2003
1723 kr
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Bringing together the key essays that have constituted this field since its inception and that point the way toward its future, Theorizing Diaspora is a central resource for understanding diaspora as an emergent and contested theoretical space. Anthologizes the most influential and critically …
Theorizing Diaspora
A Reader
Av Jana Evans Braziel, Anita Mannur
Häftad, 2003
569 kr
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Bringing together the key essays that have constituted this field since its inception and that point the way toward its future, Theorizing Diaspora is a central resource for understanding diaspora as an emergent and contested theoretical space. Anthologizes the most influential and critically …
Duvalier's Ghosts
Race, Diaspora, and U.S. Imperialism in Haitian Literatures
Häftad, 2017
335 kr
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From a position of urgent political engagement, this provocative book offers novel and compelling interpretations of several well-known Haitian-born authors, particularly regarding U.S. intervention in their homeland.Drawing on the diasporic cultural texts of several authors, such as Edwidge …
Duvalier's Ghosts
Race, Diaspora, and U.S. Imperialism in Haitian Literatures
E-bok, 2017
272 kr
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"Urgently pursues those nameless ghosts of Haitians lost in the liminal space of the Black Atlantic."-- New West Indian Guide "Foregrounds the experiences of refugees (particularly those refused asylum and detained in camps), the political mobilization of the diaspora in the United States, the …
Street Art and Activism in the Greater Caribbean
Impossible States, Virtual Publics
E-bok, 2022
785 kr
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Foregrounding street art in the capital cities of Cuba, Haiti, and Puerto Rico, this book argues that Antillean street artists diagnose the “impossible state” of the arrested present (colonized, occupied, or under dictatorship) while simultaneously imagining liberated futures and fully sovereign …
Street Art and Activism in the Greater Caribbean
Impossible States, Virtual Publics
E-bok, 2022
785 kr
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Foregrounding street art in the capital cities of Cuba, Haiti, and Puerto Rico, this book argues that Antillean street artists diagnose the “impossible state” of the arrested present (colonized, occupied, or under dictatorship) while simultaneously imagining liberated futures and fully sovereign …
Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami
E-bok, 2024
856 kr
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This study focuses on street art and large-scale murals in metropolitan Miami/Dade County, while also foregrounding the diasporic and aesthetic interventions made by migrant and second-generation artists whose families hail from the Caribbean and Latin America. Jana Evans Braziel argues that …
Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami
E-bok, 2024
838 kr
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This study focuses on street art and large-scale murals in metropolitan Miami/Dade County, while also foregrounding the diasporic and aesthetic interventions made by migrant and second-generation artists whose families hail from the Caribbean and Latin America. Jana Evans Braziel argues that …
Street Art and Activism in the Greater Caribbean
Impossible States, Virtual Publics
Inbunden, 2022
2600 kr
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Foregrounding street art in the capital cities of Cuba, Haiti, and Puerto Rico, this book argues that Antillean street artists diagnose the “impossible state” of the arrested present (colonized, occupied, or under dictatorship) while simultaneously imagining liberated futures and fully sovereign …
Street Art and Activism in the Greater Caribbean
Impossible States, Virtual Publics
Häftad, 2024
671 kr
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Foregrounding street art in the capital cities of Cuba, Haiti, and Puerto Rico, this book argues that Antillean street artists diagnose the “impossible state” of the arrested present (colonized, occupied, or under dictatorship) while simultaneously imagining liberated futures and fully sovereign …
Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami
Inbunden, 2024
2600 kr
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This study focuses on street art and large-scale murals in metropolitan Miami/Dade County, while also foregrounding the diasporic and aesthetic interventions made by migrant and second-generation artists whose families hail from the Caribbean and Latin America. Jana Evans Braziel argues that …
Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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This study focuses on street art and large-scale murals in metropolitan Miami/Dade County, while also foregrounding the diasporic and aesthetic interventions made by migrant and second-generation artists whose families hail from the Caribbean and Latin America. Jana Evans Braziel argues that …
Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat
Av Jana Evans Braziel, Nadège T. Clitandre
Inbunden, 2021
2621 kr
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Edwidge Danticat’s prolific body of work has established her as one of the most important voices in 21st-century literary culture. Across such novels as Breath, Eyes, Memory, Farming the Bones and short story collections such as Krik? Krak! and most recently Everything Inside, essays, and writing …
Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat
Av Jana Evans Braziel, Nadège T. Clitandre
E-bok, 2021
753 kr
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Edwidge Danticat''s prolific body of work has established her as one of the most important voices in 21st-century literary culture. Across such novels as Breath, Eyes, Memory, Farming the Bones and short story collections such as Krik? Krak! and most recently Everything Inside , essays, and writing …
Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat
Av Jana Evans Braziel, Nadège T. Clitandre
E-bok, 2021
731 kr
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Edwidge Danticat''s prolific body of work has established her as one of the most important voices in 21st-century literary culture. Across such novels as Breath, Eyes, Memory, Farming the Bones and short story collections such as Krik? Krak! and most recently Everything Inside , essays, and writing …
Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat
Av Jana Evans Braziel, Nadège T. Clitandre
Häftad, 2023
694 kr
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Edwidge Danticat’s prolific body of work has established her as one of the most important voices in 21st-century literary culture. Across such novels as Breath, Eyes, Memory, Farming the Bones and short story collections such as Krik? Krak! and most recently Everything Inside, essays, and writing …
Riding with Death
Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince
Häftad, 2018
402 kr
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On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capital's automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on …
Caribbean Genesis
Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds
Inbunden, 2009
1250 kr
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Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid's entire literary oeuvre.By exploring the breadth of Jamaica Kincaid's writings, this book reveals her work's transmutations of genre, specifically those of autobiography, biography, and history in relation to the forces of creation and destruction in …
Caribbean Genesis
Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds
Häftad, 2010
462 kr
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Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid's entire literary oeuvre.By exploring the breadth of Jamaica Kincaid's writings, this book reveals her work's transmutations of genre, specifically those of autobiography, biography, and history in relation to the forces of creation and destruction in …
Diaspora
An Introduction
Häftad, 2008
404 kr
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This introduction highlights key topics significant to contemporary discussions of diaspora and stressing the substantial impact these migratory shifts have on global capital. Offers a critical introduction to diaspora - the study of dispersed ethnic populations - with specific focus on migratory …
