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Sugar's Secrets
Race and the Erotics of Cuban Nationalism
Häftad, 1993
462 kr
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How and why has Cuba's national identity been cast in terms of a cross-cultural synthesis called ""mestizaje"", and what roles have race, gender, sexuality and class played in the construction of that synthesis? What specific cultural, political and economic interests does ""mestizaje"" represent? …
French and West Indian
Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana Today
Av Richard D. E. Burton, Fred Reno
Häftad, 1995
427 kr
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Monsters, Tricksters and Sacred Cows
Animal Tales and American Identities
Av A. James Arnold, A.James Arnold
Inbunden, 1996
906 kr
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The 1992 quincentennial of the encounter between the Old and New World resulted in a polarisation of hardened ideological positions on different ideas of America. This text demonstrates that both sides are interested in defending an idea of ""Americanness"".
Other America
Caribbean Literature in a New World Context
Häftad, 1998
563 kr
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This work explores two centuries of Caribbean literature from a comparative perspective. The author examines English, French and Spanish-speaking writers and aesthetic movements of the Caribbean, arguing that previous studies have ignored the modern, global and historical nature of the region.
Caribbean Romances
The Politics of Regional Representation
Häftad, 1999
514 kr
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Examines the ways in which the ""romance"" trope is employed within contemporary Caribbean popular culture and literature to idealize the newly independent postcolonial societies of the region. These essays situate this discourse of idealization within its historical and cultural contexts.
Juanita
A Romance of Real Life in Cuba Fifty Years Ago
Av Mary Peabody Mann, Mary Peabody Mann
Inbunden, 2000
988 kr
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This historical romance is based on the author's experience of living on a Cuban slaveholder's plantation from 1833 to 1835. It centres on the visit of Helen Wentworth to a friend's plantation and the love affair between Juanita, a beautiful slave with whom the plantation owner's son falls in love.
Postslavery Literatures in the Americas
Family Portraits in Black and White
Häftad, 2000
348 kr
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A study of post-slavery literatures in the Americas. Examining major novels from 1880 to the 1970s, the author shows how fiction from different nations shares what he calls textual simultaneity in revealing parallel narrative anxieties about genealogy, narrative authority and racial difference.
Creole Recitations
John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-century Caribbean
Av Faith Smith
Inbunden, 2002
912 kr
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John Jacob Thomas (1841-1889) was one of the leading members of a newly emergent intelligentsia in nineteenth-century Trinidad - a group that could be identified as both ""Victorian"" and ""Pan-Africanist"" - who not only challenged British imperialist accounts of Trinidad but also tried to show …
Paradise and Plantation
Tourism and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean
Häftad, 2003
400 kr
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It is hard to ignore the hotels. They rise like mammoths of iron and concrete above the homes, the office buildings, the trees of New Providence, island of my birth. So begins Ian Strachan's history of the idea of the Caribbean as paradise. The modern image of the Bahamas as a carefree tourist …
Voicing Memory
History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature
Av Nick Nesbitt
Häftad, 2003
351 kr
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In Voicing Memory Nick Nesbilt argues that the aesthetic practices of twentieth-century French Caribbean writers reconstruct a historical awareness that had been lost amid the repressive violence of slavery, the plantation system, and colonial exploitation. Drawing on the work of Aime Cesaire, …
New World Modernisms
T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite
Inbunden, 2004
988 kr
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James Clifford tells us that modernism has become a ""traveling culture"" because it reflects the ""discrepant cosmopolitanism"" of the twentieth century - that is, a world in which people are paradoxically migratory yet rooted, international yet local. Perhaps modernism has traveled so well …
New World Modernisms
T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite
Häftad, 2004
348 kr
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James Clifford tells us that modernism has become a ""traveling culture"" because it reflects the ""discrepant cosmopolitanism"" of the twentieth century - that is, a world in which people are paradoxically migratory yet rooted, international yet local. Perhaps modernism has traveled so well …
Reclaiming Difference
Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism
Inbunden, 2005
841 kr
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In ""Reclaiming Difference"", Carine Mardorossian examines the novels of four women writers - Jean Rhys (Dominica/UK), Maryse Conde (Guadeloupe/USA), Edwidge Danticat (Haiti/USA), and Julia Alvarez (Dominican Republic/USA) - who have radically reformulated the meanings of the national, …
Reclaiming Difference
Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism
Häftad, 2005
498 kr
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In ""Reclaiming Difference"", Carine Mardorossian examines the novels of four women writers - Jean Rhys (Dominica/UK), Maryse Conde (Guadeloupe/USA), Edwidge Danticat (Haiti/USA), and Julia Alvarez (Dominican Republic/USA) - who have radically reformulated the meanings of the national, …
Cannibal Modernities
Postcoloniality and the Avant-Garde in Caribbean and Brazilian Literature
Inbunden, 2005
906 kr
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Unique in its inclusion of Brazil in a comparative study of literary texts and their engagement with Western modernity, ""Cannibal Modernities"" is the first post colonial study to show how the ""peripheral"" replications of modernity in contemporary Caribbean and Latin American texts differ …
Guarding Cultural Memory
Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts
Inbunden, 2006
906 kr
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In ""Guarding Cultural Memory"", Flora Gonzalez Mandri examines the vibrant and uniquely illuminating post-Revolutionary creative endeavors of Afro-Cuban women. Taking on the question of how African diaspora cultures practice remembrance, she reveals the ways in which these artists restage the …
Guarding Cultural Memory
Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts
Häftad, 2006
577 kr
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In ""Guarding Cultural Memory"", Flora Gonzalez Mandri examines the vibrant and uniquely illuminating post-Revolutionary creative endeavors of Afro-Cuban women. Taking on the question of how African diaspora cultures practice remembrance, she reveals the ways in which these artists restage the …
Writing Rumba
The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry
Inbunden, 2006
906 kr
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Arising in the heyday of the music recently made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club, Afrocubanismo was an artistic and intellectual movement in Cuba in the 1920s and 1930s that tried to convey a national and racial identity. Through poetry, this movement was the first serious attempt on the part …
Writing Rumba
The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry
Häftad, 2006
366 kr
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Arising in the heyday of the music recently made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club, Afrocubanismo was an artistic and intellectual movement in Cuba in the 1920s and 1930s that tried to convey a national and racial identity. Through poetry, this movement was the first serious attempt on the part …
Second Arrivals
Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas
Inbunden, 2007
988 kr
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Diaspora studies have tended to privilege urban landscapes over rural ones, wanting to avoid the racial homogeneity, conservatism, and xenophobia usually associated with the latter. In ""Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas"", Sarah Phillips Casteel …
Orphan Narratives
The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse
Inbunden, 2007
762 kr
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In ""Orphan Narratives"", Valerie Loichot investigates the fiction and poetry of four writers who emerged from the postslavery plantation world of the Americas - William Faulkner (USA), Edouard Glissant (Martinique), Toni Morrison (USA), and Saint-John Perse (Guadeloupe) - to show how these …
Vulnerable States
Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction
Inbunden, 2007
1135 kr
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According to Martinican theorist Edouard Glissant, the twentieth century has been dominated in the Caribbean by a passion for the remembrance of colonial history. But while Glissant identifies this passion for memory in the thematizing of nature in Caribbean modernist life, scholar Guillermina De …
Vulnerable States
Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction
Häftad, 2007
400 kr
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According to Martinican theorist Edouard Glissant, the twentieth century has been dominated in the Caribbean by a passion for the remembrance of colonial history. But while Glissant identifies this passion for memory in the thematizing of nature in Caribbean modernist life, scholar Guillermina De …
BORDER FICTIONS
Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States
Häftad, 2008
505 kr
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Border Fictions offers the first comparative analysis of multiethnic and transnational cultural representations about the United States' borders with Mexico and Canada. Blending textual analysis with theories of globalization and empire, Claudia Sadowski-Smith forges a new model of inter-American …
Tree of Liberty
Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2008
943 kr
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On January 1, 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared the independence of Haiti, thus bringing to an end the only successful slave revolution in history and transforming the colony of Saint-Domingue into the second independent state in the Western Hemisphere. The historical significance of the …
Signs of Dissent
Maryse Conde and Postcolonial Criticism
Av Dawn Fulton
Inbunden, 2008
906 kr
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Maryse Conde is a Guadeloupean writer and critic whose work has challenged the categories of race, language, gender, and geography that inform contemporary literary and critical debates. In ""Signs of Dissent"", the first full-length study in English on Conde, Dawn Fulton situates this …
Signs of Dissent
Maryse Conde and Postcolonial Criticism
Av Dawn Fulton
Häftad, 2008
348 kr
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Maryse Conde is a Guadeloupean writer and critic whose work has challenged the categories of race, language, gender, and geography that inform contemporary literary and critical debates. In ""Signs of Dissent"", the first full-length study in English on Conde, Dawn Fulton situates this …
Transatlantic Solidarities
Irish Nationalism and Caribbean Poetics
Inbunden, 2009
1309 kr
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Despite their prominent place in twentieth-century literature in English, novelists and poets from Ireland and the anglophone Caribbean have long been separated by literary histories in which they are either representing a local, nationalist tradition or functioning within an international movement …
Universal Emancipation
The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment
Av Nick Nesbitt
Häftad, 2008
348 kr
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Unlike the American and French Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution was the first in a modern state to implement human rights universally and unconditionally. Going well beyond the selective emancipation of white adult male property owners, the Haitian Revolution is of vital importance, Nick Nesbitt …
Exhibiting Slavery
The Caribbean Postmodern Novel As Museum
Inbunden, 2009
906 kr
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Exhibiting Slavery examines the ways in which Caribbean postmodern historical novels about slavery written in Spanish, English, and French function as virtual museums, simultaneously showcasing and curating a collection of 'primary documents' within their pages. As Vivian Nun Halloran attests, …
