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Celebrants of an ever-emerging "globalization" fly the banner of free trade, the mass marketization of once faltering economies, and rising economic and social standards for all. Many opponents to globalization rightfully point out that borders still exist largely for the purposes of keeping one "commodity" in its place: the labor commodity or, the more familiar, immigrant. Arguments of this type are often steeped in economic and social discourse. Race and ethnicity are seen as either being subsumed by this discourse or are entirely ignored as incidental to this type of political thought. In Ethnicity, Class and Nationalism: Caribbean and Extra-Caribbean Dimensions specialists writing on the Caribbean form of the nation-state place race and ethnicity—along with class—in its proper context: at the very foundations of the modern nation. Editor Anton L. Allahar has handpicked scholarship that is both contemporary and expert in its consideration of Caribbean geo-politics. Furthermore, essays in this volume include comparative cases from around the globe. In the interest of locating race and ethnicity as sociological and political categories that are inimical to contemporary conceptions of the nation state, Allahar explores spaces other than the Caribbean. The result is a comparative study that is unique in scope and also in its level of scholarly reflection. This book is the first of its kind. It is essential reading for anyone interested in advancing their analysis of political, economic, social, and cultural thought in the Caribbean.
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Michaeline A. Crichlow extends the contemporary critique of development projects by examining the political and discursive relationship of the state to the land-based working people, or "smallholders," in modern Jamaica. The first book of its kind, Negotiating Caribbean Freedom does for Jamaican historiography and sociology what Akhil Gupta's PostColonial Developments did for studies of India. Michaeline A. Crichlow gives us an incredibly nuanced discussion of how development dominates the lives of the subsistance peasantry, not through force, but through the instrumentalization of social relationships that were once ends in themselves. For example, what were once effective agricultural practices—embedded in the every day lives of smallholders all over the island—have, in the interest of serving international captial, been bureaucratized to the point that they are untenable to support the livelihoods of smallholders. Not content to measure the success or failure of development to deliver on its promises, she discloses both the continuities and differences between development projects of very different political regimes and helps to establish why smallholders support development projects even when those projects fail to address their needs.
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Michaeline A. Crichlow extends the contemporary critique of development projects by examining the political and discursive relationship of the state to the land-based working people, or "smallholders," in modern Jamaica. The first book of its kind, Negotiating Caribbean Freedom does for Jamaican historiography and sociology what Akhil Gupta's PostColonial Developments did for studies of India. Michaeline A. Crichlow gives us an incredibly nuanced discussion of how development dominates the lives of the subsistance peasantry, not through force, but through the instrumentalization of social relationships that were once ends in themselves. For example, what were once effective agricultural practices—embedded in the every day lives of smallholders all over the island—have, in the interest of serving international captial, been bureaucratized to the point that they are untenable to support the livelihoods of smallholders. Not content to measure the success or failure of development to deliver on its promises, she discloses both the continuities and differences between development projects of very different political regimes and helps to establish why smallholders support development projects even when those projects fail to address their needs.
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The Haitian Creole Language is the first book that deals broadly with a language that has too long lived in the shadow of French. With chapters contributed by the leading scholars in the study of Creole, it provides information on this language's history; structure; and use in education, literature, and social interaction. Although spoken by virtually all Haitians, Creole was recognized as the co-official language of Haiti only a little over twenty years ago. The Haitian Creole Language provides essential information for professionals, other service providers, and Creole speakers who are interested in furthering the use of Creole in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora. Increased language competencies would greatly promote the education of Creole speakers and their participation in the social and political life of their countries of residence. This book is an indispensable tool for those seeking knowledge about the centrality of language in the affairs of Haiti, its people, and its diaspora.
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Exploring the old and new forms of transnationalism stemming from the Caribbean, Caribbean Transnationalism challenges present concepts about diaspora, brings into perspective new forms of transnationalism, and offers new perspectives on social cohesion in plural societies. The novelty of this collection of essays by experts from a wide range of disciplines consists not only of the theoretical clarity it offers with regard to issues related to diaspora, transnationalism, and social cohesion, but also of the ample attention given to the intra-regional transnational communities and the discussion of ethnification for social cohesion. Caribbean Transnationalism calls into question traditional views held in the expanding fields of migration, transnationalism, and social cohesion, making this an important book for scholars and students interested in the study of the social sciences and Caribbean studies.
Alien-Nation and Repatriation
Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
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Alien-Nation and Repatriation examines the emergence and transformations in representations of national identity in Anglophone Caribbean literary traditions. Beginning with the short fiction of C. L. R. James, Alfred Mendes, and Albert Gomes, this study examines the extent to which gender, migration, and female sexuality frame the earliest representations of Caribbean identity in literature by West Indian authors. The study develops chronologically to examine the works of George Lamming, Paule Marshall, Erna Brodber, M. Nourbese Philip, and Elizabeth Nunez. Alien-Nation and Repatriation emphasizes the processes of alienation that marginalize women from discourses of citizenship and belonging, both of which are integral aspects of nationalist literature. This text also argues that for Caribbean women writers engaged in discourses on citizenship, 'return' is not focused on reclaiming the nation-state. Instead Saunders argues that closer examinations of discourses on Caribbean identity reveal the ways in which the female body has been disciplined, through form and content, into silence in colonial and post-colonial Caribbean literary traditions.
Alien-Nation and Repatriation
Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
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Alien-Nation and Repatriation examines the emergence and transformations in representations of national identity in Anglophone Caribbean literary traditions. Beginning with the short fiction of C. L. R. James, Alfred Mendes, and Albert Gomes, this study examines the extent to which gender, migration, and female sexuality frame the earliest representations of Caribbean identity in literature by West Indian authors. The study develops chronologically to examine the works of George Lamming, Paule Marshall, Erna Brodber, M. Nourbese Philip, and Elizabeth Nunez. Alien-Nation and Repatriation emphasizes the processes of alienation that marginalize women from discourses of citizenship and belonging, both of which are integral aspects of nationalist literature. This text also argues that for Caribbean women writers engaged in discourses on citizenship, 'return' is not focused on reclaiming the nation-state. Instead Saunders argues that closer examinations of discourses on Caribbean identity reveal the ways in which the female body has been disciplined, through form and content, into silence in colonial and post-colonial Caribbean literary traditions.
Race, Culture, and Identity
Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory from NZgritude to CrZolitZ
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
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In this groundbreaking book, Shireen Lewis gives a comprehensive analysis of the literary and theoretical discourse on race, culture, and identity by Francophone and Caribbean writers beginning in the early part of the twentieth century and continuing into the dawn of the new millennium. Examining the works of Patrick Chamoiseau, Rapha`l Confiant, AimZ CZsaire, LZopold Senghor, LZon Damas, and Paulette Nardal, Lewis traces a move away from the preoccupation with African origins and racial and cultural purity, toward concerns of hybridity and fragmentation in the New World or Diasporic space. In addition to exploring how this shift parallels the larger debate around modernism and postmodernism, Lewis makes a significant contribution by arguing for the inclusion of Martinican intellectual Paulette Nardal, and other women into the canon as significant contributors to the birth of modern black Francophone literature.
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The Multiracial Project in the Caribbean is a detailed case study of emancipatory racial unity in post-colonial politics. Sara Abraham argues that the Caribbean provides a good site for studying unity as the major population groups share equal power bases, unlike in metropolitan countries. She offers a rich exploration of the four historical periods of multi-racial political unity in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana: the 1930s, 1970s, and the 1980s. In each of these cases unity was an important goal and the focus of organized social movements as the countries attempted to break out of colonial legacies of division. Abraham explores several immediate factors which led to social change, including: the structural conditions in the political system that allowed movements of unity to gain center stage, the new class formation as the social basis for a new politics, and the moral courage of the activists themselves, which is represented by first hand accounts from contemporary activists and a Caribbean political elder. *The Multiracial Project in the Caribbean* is a comprehensive and accessible work, suitable for sociologists and historians of the area as well as general readers with an interest in race relations.
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In this volume, the editors and authors strive to understand the evolving Trans-Caribbean as a discontinuous, displacing and displaced, transnational space. It considers the imagined community in the islands as its psycho-social homeland, while simultaneously pursuing different cultural strategies of redefining and resisting colonial "homeland" conventions (which Kamau Brathwaite appropriately termed the "inner plantation"). Thus, the Trans-Caribbean is suspended in a double-dialectic, which opposes both the hegemonic metropolitan space inhabited, as well as the romanticized, yet colonialized, "inner plantation," whose transcendence via migration perpetually turns out to be an illusion. Given this, cultural production and migration remain at the vortex of the Trans-Caribbean. The construction of cultural products in the Trans-Caribbean—understood as a collection of social and new migratory practices—both reflects and contests post-colonial metropolitan hegemonies. Following Arjun Appadurai's distinction, these homogenizing and heterogenizing counter-trends in Trans-Cariabbean spaces can be observed through cultural transactions manifesting themselves as ethnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, financescapes, cityscapes, ideoscapes, etc. For the purposes of this book the editors invited anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, linguists, liberal arts and gender studies specialists, as well as cultural and literary historians to begin drawing some of the diasporic trajectories on the huge canvas of cultural production throughout the Trans-Caribbean.Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean will find its audience among scholars in cultural studies, migration, literary theory, and cultural criticism who have a special interest in Caribbean and Latin American Studies, as well as among students and scholars of migration and postcolonialism and postmodernity in general.
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The Haitian Creole Language is the first book that deals broadly with a language that has too long lived in the shadow of French. With chapters contributed by the leading scholars in the study of Creole, it provides information on this language's history; structure; and use in education, literature, and social interaction. Although spoken by virtually all Haitians, Creole was recognized as the co-official language of Haiti only a little over twenty years ago. The Haitian Creole Language provides essential information for professionals, other service providers, and Creole speakers who are interested in furthering the use of Creole in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora. Increased language competencies would greatly promote the education of Creole speakers and their participation in the social and political life of their countries of residence. This book is an indispensable tool for those seeking knowledge about the centrality of language in the affairs of Haiti, its people, and its diaspora.
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What Women Lose
Exile and the Construction of Imaginary Homelands in Novels by Caribbean Writers
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
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Fashioning Feminism in Cuba and Beyond
The Prose of Gertrudis Gaomez De Avellaneda
Inbunden, Engelska, 2004
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Miraculous Weapons
Revolutionary Ideology in Caribbean Culture
Inbunden, Engelska, 2003
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Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcolonial Studies
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
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Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcolonial Studies is a pioneer in advancing the difficult but necessary argument of situating and centering Caribbean literature and criticism at the foundation of multicultural and postcolonial studies through an interdisciplinary, international, and intercultural manner, made possible by the author’s unique multicultural and transnational interest and experience. The Caribbean, more than any other region, has suffered from European imperialism – annihilation of the native population, piracy amongst the European powers, deracination and atrocities of the slave trade, and subsequent systems of indenture – but has received the least critical and international attention. Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcolonial Studies argues that Caribbean criticism – shaped by the region’s socio-economic, political, and historical phenomena – has a more complex and significant marriage with postcolonial and multicultural studies than acknowledged by the international community. Caribbean scholars should not only seek to legitimize and publicize the marriage and its depth, but also expand the borders of its scholarship and protest its «disneyfication» and prostitution.
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Performing Cuba
(Re)writing Gender Identity and Exile Across Genres
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
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Historia, Intrahistoria y Compromiso Social en Siete Poetas Hispanicos
Ruben Dario, Federico Garcia Lorca, Nicolas Guillen, Manuel del Cabral, Pales Matos, Cesar Vallejo y Pablo Neruda
Inbunden, Spanska, 2007
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Historia, intrahistoria y compromiso social en siete poetas hispanicos es un analisis critico-social de la obra parcial de siete poetas hispanicos, que con diferentes maneras de su expresion lirica senalan el dolor, la injusticia, la descriminacion y la tragedia de sendos grupos sociales. Manuel Antonio Arango L analiza la historia y la intrahistoria a fin de profundizar en el estudio del contexto social en los seres marginados en el marco de la sociedad espanola y de la America Hispana. Arango L senala cuidadosamente el fondo poetico de los siete poetas para demostrar que ellos quisieran hacerse participes del dolor en los seres marginados y senalar el desconcierto en la inmensidad del universo, perdido en una sociedad inmutable, llena de dolor y de muerte. De esta manera el autor del presente libro es un claro ejemplo del esfuerzo por estudiar y profundizar el contexto en la poesia social en Espana y de la America Hispana, a traves de la obra poetica de Ruben Dario, Federico Garcia Lorca, Nicolas Guillen, Manuel del Cabral, Pales Matos, Cesar Vallejo y Pablo Neruda.
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Diaspora Cubana en Mexico
Terceros Espacios y Miradas Excentricas
Inbunden, Spanska, 2008
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La diaspora cubana en Mexico: terceros espacios y miradas excentricas ofrece el primer estudio monografico sobre la diaspora cubana en un lugar mas alla de Miami. Indaga en la terminologia de la diaspora en el contexto cubano asi como la unica relacion geopolitica entre Cuba y Mexico. Se aprovecha de la narrativa cubana producida en Mexico para considerar diferentes perspectivas que se producen en Mexico. En Informe contra mi mismo de Eliseo Alberto se observa la creacion de una comunidad diasporica a traves de la literatura. En contraste, en la novela Livadia de Jose Manuel Prieto se percibe la celebracion del cosmopolitismo en el que solo se nota lo cubano con una lectura cuidadosa.
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Tema y Estructura en el Teatro del Siglo XVI y XVII en Hispanoamerica y Espana
Fernan Gonzalez de Eslava, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Tirso de Molina, Lope de Vega, Calderon de la Barca y Juan Ruiz de Alarcon
Inbunden, Spanska, 2008
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Tema y estructura en el teatro del siglo XVI y XVII en Hispanoamericana y Espana se divide en dos partes principales: el teatro colonial en Hispanoamerica y el teatro del Siglo de Oro en Espana. La primera parte del libro se centra en el influjo espanol en el teatro colonial en el siglo XVI, a partir de que Espana envio misioneros al Nuevo Mundo (1519-1550), y se desarrolla en la tradicion medieval y al amparo de la religion catolica. Dentro del caudal de dramaturgos del teatro misionero se halla Fernan Gonzalez de Eslava (1550-1609), quien aporto dieciseis obras de teatro. Posteriormente se analiza el teatro en el Barroco Mexicano hasta llegar al analisis parcial del teatro de Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. La segunda parte analiza la obra parcial de algunos dramaturgos del Siglo de Oro en Espana, entre ellos: Tirso de Molina, Lope de Vega, Calderon de la Barca y Juan Ruiz de Alarcon. El tema del honor, de la fama y de la honra al igual que algunas consideraciones de orden social se destacan en el analisis de la obra de estos cuatro dramaturgos del Siglo de Oro.
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The literature of Caribbean writers living in the United States embodies a duality, an awareness of multiple sites of identity as well as conflict of place and space. Easily grouped with African Americans, Caribbean peoples and other immigrants from the African Diaspora make up the quasi-political face of Black America. But as immigrants from a former colonized community, Caribbean writers carry with them a historical experience that differentiates them from African Americans – they stand on the border of two spaces. What impact does this duality have on Caribbean literature written by writers who have left the «home» space for American soil? As many writers have suggested, Caribbean writers are continuously looking back to home in an attempt to understand who they are and where they belong. This book postulates that it is through nostalgia, or an attempt to renegotiate the past, that the Caribbean writer attempts to reconcile his/her duality. Nostalgia can be directly linked to an understanding of, and by extension a critique of, American social and political practices as well as an appraisal of colonial influences in the Caribbean. Thus the discourse of Caribbean writers living in America operates on different levels: Although Caribbean migratory writers are continuously looking back to «home», this nostalgia is tied to a reevaluation of American and island consciousness. The texts discussed in this work are, in effect, engaged in critical analysis; the texts «perform criticism» of the «home» country and «that man’s country» – the United States.
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Caida del Hombre Nuevo
Narrativa Cubana del Periodo Especial
Inbunden, Spanska, 2008
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La caida del Hombre Nuevo refleja una aproximacion sociologica al estudio de la narrativa cubana que comienza a desarrollarse en la ultima decada del siglo XX, epoca que recibe el rotulo de Periodo Especial en Tiempos de Paz. El estudio demuestra que las condiciones socio-politicas y economicas que se dan en el periodo en cuestion son una suerte de catalizador para un nuevo tipo de narrativa en la literatura cubana. Los aspectos literarios que se analizan en este trabajo incluyen el lenguaje, los temas, y la ideologia. La caida del Hombre Nuevo demuestra que tanto el lenguaje irreverente, como los temas recurrentes de la nostalgia y el exilio, asi como el surgimiento de una nueva ideologia del cuestionamiento son las caracteristicas principales de la narrativa cubana del Periodo Especial.
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Traversing Caribbean Thresholds
Coming of Age Stories in Selected Works of Anglophone Fiction
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
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Libertad en Cadenas
Sacrificio, Aporias y Perdon en las Letras Cubanas
Inbunden, Spanska, 2010
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El tema de la libertad ha sido uno de los mas debatidos en la cultura cubana, sin embargo, hasta el momento no se ha estudiado como discurso, como instrumento impreciso y vulnerable a inconsistencias. Dentro y fuera de Cuba se prefiere hablar de libertad en relacion a factores externos - religion, politica, derechos civiles. Esto explica por que tantos de los que abordan este tema de las letras cubanas se han mantenido ajenos a las contradicciones propias del mismo. Libertad en cadenas explora los origenes y trayectoria de las ideas de la libertad que mayor impacto han tenido en la cultura cubana a fin de llamar la atencion sobre las aporias inherentes a una serie de discursos - mitico-religiosos, teologicos, filosoficos, politicos, filmicos, literarios - desde principios del siglo diecinueve hasta hoy. Al igual que en el resto de America Latina, donde figuras como Borges o Paz han confrontado de manera directa y auto-consciente estas dificultades propias de los discursos sobre libertad, en Cuba los que mejor han sabido explorar este asunto han sido escritores y cineastas.Esta es la razon por la que, sin descuidar las contribuciones de un pensador como Jorge Manach o las del politico Fidel Castro, este estudio dedica especial atencion al analisis de discursos literarios y filmicos como los Jose Marti, Virgilio Pinera, Alejo Carpentier, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Jose Lezama Lima, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Nelson Simon, Zoe Valdes y Jose Antonio Ponte, entre otros. Algo que distingue los discursos cubanos de la libertad es el hecho de que, conscientemente o no de ello, todos fluctuan entre el mito y la ironia; fluctuacion esta cuyos registros mas notables incluyen la trascendencia y sus demandas de sacrificio, el existencialismo, el choteo y, en fechas mas recientes, una distancia critica que ni abraza ni rechaza del todo, sino que observa con una actitud benignamente cansada el montaje ideologico-discursivo de las ideas sobre la libertad.
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Violencia, Genero y Migracion en el Caribe Hispano
Reescribiendo la Nacion
Inbunden, Spanska, 2011
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Claude McKay's Liberating Narrative
Russian and Anglophone Caribbean Literary Connections
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
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Claude McKay’s Liberating Narrative: Russian and Anglophone Caribbean Literary Connections examines McKay’s search for an original form of literary expression that started in Jamaica and continued in his subsequent travels abroad. Newly found research pertaining to his presence in several Russian periodicals, magazines, and literary diaries brings new light to the writer’s contribution to the Soviet understanding of African American and Caribbean issues and his possible influence on Yevgeny Zamyatin, the writer he met during his 1922 - 1923 visit to Russia. The primary focus of this book is Claude McKay and his positive reception of Alexander Pushkin, Feodor Dostoyevsky, and Leo Tolstoy, the nineteenth-century Russian writers who influenced his literary career and enabled him to find a solution to his dilemma of a dual Caribbean identity. The secondary focus of this book is the analysis of McKay’s affinity with his Russian literary predecessors and with C.L.R. James and Ralph de Boissière, his Trinidadian contemporaries, who also acknowledged the importance of Russian writers in their artistic development. The book discusses McKay as a precursor of Russian and Anglophone Caribbean links and presents a comparative analysis of cross-racial, cross-national, and cross-cultural alliances between these two distinct yet similar types of literature. Claude McKay’s Liberating Narrative is highly recommended for undergraduate and graduate courses in Caribbean and comparative literature at North American, European, Caribbean, and African universities.
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Exégesis del tambor
Apuntes para una poética caribeña
Inbunden, Spanska, 2020
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Fragmented Caribbean Empire
Social, Political and Cultural Influences
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
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In A Fragmented Caribbean Empire, Jerome Teelucksingh examines some of the personalities and organizations that are often overlooked in analysis of the Caribbean region and its diaspora, and in particular the Indo-Caribbean presence in literature, migration and politics. Most of the existing scholarship on the Caribbean has tended to overlook this and other ethnic, religious and cultural minorities. The author utilizes interviews and delves into diverse archival sources to create a paradigm of a region with a rich historical past and a promising future. Research on indentureship and migration to North America and Britain elucidates the strong transnational ties between the Caribbean and other regions of the world, and shows how the Caribbean can be conceptualised as a global ‘empire’. Behind this lies the author’s unwavering conviction that the Caribbean should be acknowledged as important and given its rightful place in global history.
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Beyond Rebellion and Exoticism
Selected Visions of Haiti 1892-1994
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
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"Wedsly Turenne Guerrier embarks on a fascinating journey that explores the contributions of iconic Haitian authors, poets, and artists who have contributed so much to its history, culture and society."—François Pierre-Louis, Professor of Political Science and Chair, Queens College, City University of New York"This must-read book brings to the forefront aspects of Haitian history, literature and culture that have been neglected for too long. The author paints an authentic, brilliant, and novel portrait of Haiti."—Lewis Ampidou Clorméus, Professor of Sociology, State University of Haiti, Associate Research Scholar, Yale UniversityIn spite of its richness and beauty, Haitian literature remains, for the most part, unknown and understudied. It is multilingual, creating further barriers for many readers. Beyond Rebellion and Exoticism: Selected Visions of Haiti 1892–1994 aims to overcome these barriers, presenting Haitian literature in all its dazzling variety and contrasts, and offering translations of previously untranslated works from French and Haitian Creole into English. The book analyzes works by Haitian writers such as Massillon Coicou, Jacques Roumain, Jean-Claude Martineau, Emmanuel Védrine and Anne-Christine d’Adesky, as well as the Martinican author Aimé Césaire. Published between 1892 and 1994, this distinguished body of work reveals the multiplicity of Haitian identity and interiority. Across various languages, periods and genres, these authors use their voices to resist illegitimate power and dictatorship. By showing the impact of colonization and slavery on Haitian thought, the interference of the international community in Haiti’s affairs, the dictatorial nature of the Duvalier regimes, and the efforts by Haitian citizens to improve their lives and reject hegemonic influences, author Wedsly Guerrier presents a compelling portrait of Haiti that moves beyond preconceived notions of this complicated, fascinating, and unique country.