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17 produkter
Looting Hummingbirds
Selected poems of Daniel Thaly
Av Daniel Thaly, Mark Andrews m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
179 kr
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In the first quarter of the 20th century, Daniel Thaly of Dominica, then a British Caribbean colony, was one of France’s most celebrated poets. He was educated in Martinique and then at medical school in France before returning to Dominica. His illustrious reputation crumbled when radicals in the …
Sacred Possessions
Vodou, Santería, Obeah, and the Caribbean
Av Margarite Fernândez Olmos, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Häftad, 1997
389 kr
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Sacred Possessions is an unprecedented collection of thirteen comparative and interdisciplinary essays exploring the cross-cultural dynamics of African-based religious systems in the Caribbean. The contributors analyze the nature and liturgies of Vodou, Santeria, Obeah, Quimbois, and Gaga as they …
Healing Cultures
Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its Diaspora
Av NA NA, Margarite Fernandez Olmos m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1098 kr
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The Spanish expression - la cultura cura (culture heals) - is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people. What happens, however, when cultures themselves are in jeopardy? What are the "antidotes" or healing …
Women At Sea
Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse
Av NA NA, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1262 kr
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From cross-dressing pirates to servants and slaves, women have played vital and often surprising roles in the navigation and cultural mapping of Caribbean territory. Yet these experiences rarely surface in the increasing body of critical literature on women s travel writing, which has focused on …
Jamaica Kincaid
A Critical Companion
E-bok, 1999
807 kr
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With the publication of her novel Annie John in 1985, Jamaica Kincaid entered the ranks of the best novelists of her generation. Her three autobiographical novels, Annie John , Lucy , and Autobiography of My Mother , and collection of short stories, At the Bottom of the River , touch on the …
Literature of the Caribbean
E-bok, 2008
870 kr
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The Caribbean is an exotic but not too distant land, full of rich cultural traditions. The literature of the Caribbean reflects the social, political, and cultural concerns of the region and is a valuable tool for learning about the area and its people. This book includes chapters on roughly a …
Caribbean Women Novelists
An Annotated Critical Bibliography
Av Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1064 kr
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This comprehensive, annotated bibliography of works by and about Caribbean women novelists from 1950 to the present covers novelists from all Caribbean islands and Surinam writing in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, and their dialects. Entries on some 150 individual writers are organized …
Jamaica Kincaid
A Critical Companion
Inbunden, 1999
739 kr
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With the publication of her novel Annie John in 1985, Jamaica Kincaid entered the ranks of the best novelists of her generation. Her three autobiographical novels, Annie John, Lucy, and Autobiography of My Mother, and collection of short stories, At the Bottom of the River, touch on the universal …
Literature of the Caribbean
Inbunden, 2008
820 kr
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The Caribbean is an exotic but not too distant land, full of rich cultural traditions. The literature of the Caribbean reflects the social, political, and cultural concerns of the region and is a valuable tool for learning about the area and its people. This book includes chapters on roughly a …
Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam
Short Stories by Caribbean Women
Av Carmen C Esteves, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Häftad, 1991
447 kr
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This collection of short stories features moving tales from the rich Caribbean oral tradition, stories that question women's traditional roles, present women's perspectives on the history of Caribbean slavery and colonialism, and convey the beautiful cadences of the language of Caribbean women. It …
Orchid House
Av Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Häftad, 1996
447 kr
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Lally helps to raise three white sisters in the Orchid House on the Island of Dominica and observes as each flees to the cold northern lands of England and America only to return to their magical past and the man they love.
Changes in the Landscape
Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Av Jens Andermann, Ronald Briggs m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
353 kr
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Changes in the Landscape is a collection of timely essays that bring the methodologies and commitments of ecocriticism to bear on the study of Latin American literature and cultural production. The book’s eleven chapters, written by some of the leading voices in the field, invite readers to …
Changes in the Landscape
Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Av Jens Andermann, Ronald Briggs m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1704 kr
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Changes in the Landscape is a collection of timely essays that bring the methodologies and commitments of ecocriticism to bear on the study of Latin American literature and cultural production. The book’s eleven chapters, written by some of the leading voices in the field, invite readers to …
Creole Religions of the Caribbean, Third Edition
An Introduction
Av Margarite Fernández Olmos, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Inbunden, 2022
1013 kr
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An updated introduction to the religions developed in the Caribbean regionCreole Religions of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive introduction to the overlapping religions that have developed as a result of the creolization process. Caribbean peoples drew on the variants of Christianity brought by …
Creole Religions of the Caribbean, Third Edition
An Introduction
Av Margarite Fernández Olmos, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Häftad, 2022
372 kr
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An updated introduction to the religions developed in the Caribbean regionCreole Religions of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive introduction to the overlapping religions that have developed as a result of the creolization process. Caribbean peoples drew on the variants of Christianity brought by …
Pleasure In The Word
Erotic Writing by Latin American Women
Av Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Margarite Fernández Olmos
Inbunden, 1995
210 kr
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"An important chorus of our south of the border sisters for us Latinas to hear...Here we have much knowing and glorying from Argentina to Brazil to my own Dominican Republic -- toes to waist to breasts of the hemisphere!" -- Julia Alvarez.
Remaking A Lost Harmony
Stories from the Hispanic Caribbean
Av Margarite Fernndez Olmos, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Häftad, 1995
179 kr
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The 25 stories in this collection -- written since 1959 by Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican writers -- make accessible Caribbean literature long lost to most readers in this country because of differences in language, politics, and culture. Despite the variations in style, setting, and period to …
