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The Music of the Future
Sound and Vision in the Caribbean
Av Martin Munro
Inbunden, 2024
918 kr
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In this book, author Martin Munro offers a new path into Caribbean studies based on sound. He argues that to understand and begin to transform the past, present, and future of Caribbean studies, historians must do so at the node of both sound and vision. The book makes a compelling case for a broad …
Music of the Future
Sound and Vision in the Caribbean
Av Martin Munro
E-bok, 2024
925 kr
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In this book, author Martin Munro offers a new path into Caribbean studies based on sound. He argues that to understand and begin to transform the past, present, and future of Caribbean studies, historians must do so at the node of both sound and vision. The book makes a compelling case for a broad …
Music of the Future
Sound and Vision in the Caribbean
Av Martin Munro
E-bok, 2024
925 kr
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In this book, author Martin Munro offers a new path into Caribbean studies based on sound. He argues that to understand and begin to transform the past, present, and future of Caribbean studies, historians must do so at the node of both sound and vision. The book makes a compelling case for a broad …
Different Drummers
Rhythm and Race in the Americas
Av Martin Munro
Inbunden, 2010
940 kr
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Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro's groundbreaking work traces the central - and contested - role of music in shaping identities, politics, social …
Different Drummers
Rhythm and Race in the Americas
Av Martin Munro
Häftad, 2010
288 kr
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Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro's groundbreaking work traces the central - and contested - role of music in shaping identities, politics, social …
Different Drummers
Rhythm and Race in the Americas
Av Martin Munro
E-bok, 2010
482 kr
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Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book''s dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro’s groundbreaking work traces the central—and contested—role of music in shaping identities, politics, social history, …
Francophone Communities Past and Present
Paragraph Special Issue (Vol 37, Issue 2)
Av Charles Forsdick, Mairead Hanrahan m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
348 kr
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This is an exploration of Francophone communities from the 19th century to the present. It is a special Issue of Paragraph edited in 2001 by Celia Britton and Michael Syrotinski on Francophone Texts and Postcolonial Theory played a determining role in shaping the research field it helped to map. …
Edwidge Danticat
A Reader''s Guide
Av Martin Munro
E-bok, 2010
540 kr
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Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), the novel born from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood in Haiti and immigration to New York City, was one of the great literary debuts of recent times, marking the emergence of an impressive talent in addition to opening up an entire culture to a broad general readership. …
Tropical Apocalypse
Haiti and the Caribbean End Times
Av Martin Munro
Inbunden, 2015
1307 kr
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In Tropical Apocalypse, Martin Munro engages with the contemporary apocalyptic turn in Caribbean studies and lived reality, not only providing important historical contextualization for a general understanding of apocalypse in the region but also offering an account of the state of Haitian society …
Tropical Apocalypse
Haiti and the Caribbean End Times
Av Martin Munro
E-bok, 2015
558 kr
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In Tropical Apocalypse, Martin Munro argues that since the earliest days of European colonization, Caribbean—and especially Haitian—history has been shaped by apocalyptic events so that the region has, in effect, been living for centuries in an end time without end. By engaging with the …
Global Revolutionary Aesthetics and Politics after Paris ‘68
Av Martin Munro, William J. Cloonan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1396 kr
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The year 2018 marked the fiftieth anniversary of May ’68, a startling, by now almost mythic event which combined seriousness, courage, humor and theatrics. The contributions of this volume—based on papers presented the conference Does “la lutte continue”? The Global Afterlife of May ’68 at Florida …
Writing on the Fault Line
Haitian Literature and the Earthquake of 2010
Av Martin Munro
Häftad, 2021
625 kr
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What are the effects of a catastrophic earthquake on a society, its culture and politics? Which of these effects are temporary, and which endure? Are the various effects immediately discernible, or do they manifest themselves over time? What roles do artists, and writers in particular have in …
Power of the Story
Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean
Av Vincent Joos, Martin Munro m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1921 kr
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A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of …
Jean-Claude Charles: A Reader’s Guide
Av Martin Munro, Eliana Văgălău
Inbunden, 2022
2278 kr
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Despite being a major figure of Haitian literature, Jean-Claude Charles (1949-2008) has received relatively little scholarly attention to date. The present volume seeks to serve as an introduction to the work and universe of this unique and capital writer to an English-language readership. The …
Listening to the Caribbean
Sounds of Slavery, Revolt, and Race
Av Martin Munro
Inbunden, 2022
2138 kr
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The primary aim of Listening to the Caribbean: Sounds of Slavery, Revolt, and Race is quite ambitious: to open up the Caribbean to a “sound studies” approach, and to thereby effect a shift in Caribbean studies away from the predominantly visual biases of most scholarly works and towards a fuller …
New Region of the World: Aesthetics I
by Édouard Glissant
Av Martin Munro
Inbunden, 2023
1998 kr
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We are all now entering into a new region of the world, which designates its sites on all the given and imaginable expanses, and of which only a few had been able to foresee in the distance its wanderings and obscurities. […] This region itself, we soon foresee, as difficult as it may seem to …
New Region of the World: Aesthetics I
by Édouard Glissant
Av Martin Munro
Häftad, 2024
355 kr
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We are all now entering into a new region of the world, which designates its sites on all the given and imaginable expanses, and of which only a few had been able to foresee in the distance its wanderings and obscurities. […] This region itself, we soon foresee, as difficult as it may seem to …
Listening to the Caribbean
Sounds of Slavery, Revolt, and Race
Av Martin Munro
Häftad, 2026
490 kr
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The primary aim of Listening to the Caribbean: Sounds of Slavery, Revolt, and Race is quite ambitious: to open up the Caribbean to a “sound studies” approach, and to thereby effect a shift in Caribbean studies away from the predominantly visual biases of most scholarly works and towards a fuller …
Jean-Claude Charles: A Reader’s Guide
Av Martin Munro, Eliana Văgălău
Häftad, 2024
633 kr
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Despite being a major figure of Haitian literature, Jean-Claude Charles (1949-2008) has received relatively little scholarly attention to date. The present volume seeks to serve as an introduction to the work and universe of this unique and capital writer to an English-language readership. The …
Power of the Story
Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean
Av Vincent Joos, Martin Munro m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
229 kr
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A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of …
Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature
Alexis, Depestre, Ollivier, Laferrière, Danticat
Av Martin Munro
Inbunden, 2007
2388 kr
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Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature reinterprets and analyses post-1946 Haitian writing as a literature of exile. It moves between texts that have emerged out of different places and different times, and outlines generational shifts and changes in Haitian exiled writing. The breadth and scope of …
Haiti Rising
Haitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010
Av Martin Munro
Häftad, 2010
521 kr
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The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 thrust the nation into the public consciousness as never before. That terrible event piqued interest in a remarkable country with a rich history as both the first black republic in the world and the first country to break free of European …
American Creoles
The Francophone Caribbean and the American South
Av Martin Munro, Celia Britton
Inbunden, 2012
808 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as …
Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature
Alexis, Depestre, Ollivier, Laferrière, Danticat
Av Martin Munro
Häftad, 2012
530 kr
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Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature reinterprets and analyses post-1946 Haitian writing as a literature of exile. It moves between texts that have emerged out of different places and different times, and outlines generational shifts and changes in Haitian exiled writing. The breadth and scope of …
Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its Cultural Aftershocks
Aftershocks
Av Martin Munro, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
459 kr
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Haiti, its revolution and its culture remain largely unknown or misunderstood in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays seeks to both elucidate aspects of Haitian history and culture and provoke interest in readers and scholars for further research in these fields. Several general …
Echoes of the Haitian Revolution 1804-2004
Av Martin Munro, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Häftad, 2009
488 kr
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The bicentenary of Haitian independence in 2004 triggered a renewed interest in Haitian history and culture. In many ways, however, much work is still required in this fertile field. Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its Cultural Aftershocks, the first collection of essays edited by Martin …
Haiti Rising
Haitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010
Av Martin Munro
Häftad, 2010
358 kr
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The earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010 thrust the nation into the public consciousness as never before. There is now an unprecedented empathy for and interest in Haiti, and a related need for information on Haitian reality, beyond the clichés often associated with the nation. In …
Haunted Tropics
Caribbean Ghost Stories
Av Martin Munro
Häftad, 2015
240 kr
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“Every island of the Caribbean is the site of a deep haunting. Before Columbus, the various indigenous peoples – the Arawaks, the Caribs, the Tainos – lived in relative harmony with the land, the sea and each other. Everything changed in 1492: the Amerindian people quickly were decimated, their …
Edwidge Danticat
A Reader's Guide
Av Martin Munro
Häftad, 2010
429 kr
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Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), the novel born from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood in Haiti and immigration to New York City, was one of the great literary debuts of recent times, marking the emergence of an impressive talent in addition to opening up an entire culture to a broad general readership. …
