Shine: the Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic
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In Shine, Krista Thompson photographic practices in the Caribbean and United States, arguing that performing for the camera is more important than the final image itself. For the members of these African diasporic communities, seeking out the camera's light provides a means with which to represent themselves in the public sphere. The resulting images, Thompson argues, become their own forms of memory, modernity, value, and social status that allow for cultural formation within and between African diasporic communities.
Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque
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Many prominent tourist-oriented spaces, including hotels and famous beaches, became off-limits to the islands' black populations, who were encouraged to act like the disciplined, loyal colonial subjects depicted in the pictures. Analyzing the work of specific photographers and artists who created tropical representations of Jamaica and the Bahamas between the 1880s and the 1930s, Thompson shows how their images differ from the English picturesque landscape tradition. Turning to the present, she examines how tropicalizing images are deconstructed in works by contemporary artists--including Christopher Cozier, David Bailey, and Irenee Shaw--at the same time that they remain a staple of postcolonial governments' vigorous efforts to attract tourists.
The George Lamming Reader: : The Aesthetics of Decolonisation
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George Lamming is one of the best known, certainly one of the most highly regarded contemporary writers from the Caribbean. Spanning nearly 60 years and encompassing fiction, poetry and critical essays, Lamming's writing covers the length and breadth of Caribbean intellectual, cultural, political and literary life. Credited as a part of that group of Caribbean activists who awoke the Caribbean to its identity and more specifically to its cultural identity, his works have focused on finding new political and social identity.
From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic
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Myriam Chancy aims to show that Haiti's exclusion is grounded in its historical role as a site of ontological defiance. Her premise is that writers Edwidge Danticat, Julia Alvarez, Zoé Valdés, Loida Maritza Pérez, Marilyn Bobes, Achy Obejas, Nancy Morejón, and visual artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons attempt to defy fears of “otherness” by assuming the role of “archaeologists of amnesia.”
Theorizing Glissant: Sites and Citations
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Édouard Glissant's work has begun to make a significant impact on francophone studies and some corners of postcolonial theory. His literary works and criticism are increasingly central to the study of Caribbean literature and cultural studies. This collection focuses on the particularly philosophical register of Glissant's thought.Each of the authors in this collection takes up a different aspect of Glissant's work and extends it in different directions.
Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class and Social Domination
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Red shift : politically embodied/embodied politics -- "Ideology" in Marx and Engels -- Determination and consciousness in Marx -- Race and class : conflicting or reconcilable paradigms? -- Red menace to the green island : the "Communist threat" to Jamaica in genre fiction, 1955-1969 -- Getting out of the cave : tensions between democracy and elitism in Marx's theory of cognitive liberation -- Smadditzin' -- Stuart Hall's changing representation of "race" -- Symposium on The racial contract.
Caribbean Spaces: Escapes From Twilight Zone
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Drawing on both personal experience and critical theory, Carole Boyce Davies illuminates the dynamic complexity of Caribbean culture and traces its migratory patterns throughout the Americas. Both a memoir and a scholarly study, Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones explores the multivalent meanings of Caribbean space and community in a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary perspective.
Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture
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ritical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture is a collection of a dozen essays by Caribbean scholars living in the Caribbean and around the world. Each of the three sections of the book explores the Caribbean as a diasporic space through the lenses of literary and cultural systems.
Food and Identity in the Caribbean
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Based on rich contemporary ethnographies, the volume reveals the ways in which food carries symbolig meanings which are incorporated into the many different facets of identity experienced by people in the Caribbean. Many of the chapters focus on the ways in which consumers align themselves with particular foods as a way of making claims about their identities.
Gendered Geographies in Puerto Rican Culture: Spaces, Sexualities, Solidarities
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A study of the construction of gendered spaces through feminine labor and capital in Puerto Rican literature and film (1950-2010). It analyzes gendered geographies, forms of emotional labor, and the possibility generated within the material and the symbolic spaces of the family house, the factory, the beauty salon and the brothel. Analyzes the works of Rosario Ferre, Carmen Lugo Filippi, Magali Garcia Ramis, Mayra Santos-Febres, Sonia Fritz and Ana Maria Garcia.
Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders
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From the dagger mistress Ezili Je Wouj and the gender-bending mermaid Lasiren to the beautiful femme queen Ezili Freda, the Ezili pantheon of Vodoun spirits represents the divine forces of love, sexuality, prosperity, pleasure, maternity, creativity, and fertility. Drawing on her background as a literary critic Tinsley theorizes black Atlantic sexuality by tracing how contemporary queer Caribbean and African American writers and performers evoke Ezili.
Bodies and Bones: Feminist Rehearsal and Imagining Caribbean Belonging
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In Bodies and Bones, Tanya Shields argues that a repeated engagement with the Caribbean's iconic and historic touchstones offers a new sense of (inter)national belonging that brings an alternative and dynamic vision to the gendered legacy of brutality against black bodies, flesh, and bone. Using a distinctive methodology she calls'feminist rehearsal'to chart the Caribbean's multiple and contradictory accounts of historical events, the author highlights the gendered and emergent connections between art, history, and belonging.
Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean : The Political Economy of Gender
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The reader is organized into thematic sections that focus on work, politics, and culture, and each section includes substantive introductions that identify key issues, trends, and debates in the scholarly literature on women and gender in the region.
Gendered Realities: Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought
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Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic
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Samantha Pinto demonstrates the crucial role of aesthetics in defining the relationship between race, gender, and location. Thinking beyond national identity to include African, African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black British literature, Difficult Diasporas brings together an innovative archive of twentieth-century texts marked by their break with conventional literary structures.
The Cross-Dressed Caribbean
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The Cross-Dressed Caribbean extends this exploration by using the trope of transvestism not only to analyze texts and contexts from anglophone, francophone, Spanish, Dutch, and diasporic Caribbean literature and film but also to highlight reinventions of sexuality and resistance to different forms of exploitation and oppression.
Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature
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Myth and History in Caribbean Fiction: Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, and Edouard Glissant
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1. Myth as a historical mode The folk imagination and history : El reino de este mundo, The secret ladder, and pt. 2. The problematic quest for origins -- The myth of El Dorado pt. 3. Myth and history : the dialectics of culture -- History as mythic discourse The poetics of identity and difference : Black Marsden and Concierto barroco.
The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics
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The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories. Looking at American, British, and Caribbean literature, it distills a diverse range of subject matter: minstrelsy, Victorian science fiction, cybertheory, and artificial intelligence.
Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon
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Historically and contemporarily, politically and literarily, Haiti has long been relegated to the margins of the so-called'New World.'Marked by exceptionalism, the voices of some of its most important writers have consequently been muted by the geopolitical realities of the nation's fraught history. It offers a close look at the works of three such writers: the Haitian Spiralists Frankétienne, Jean-Claude Fignolé, and René Philoctète.
Market Aesthetics: The Purchase of the Past in Caribbean Diasporic Fiction
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In Market Aesthetics, Elena Machado Sáez explores the popularity of Caribbean diasporic writing within an interdisciplinary, comparative, and pan-ethnic framework. She contests established readings of authors such as Junot Díaz, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Robert Antoni while showcasing the work of emerging writers such as David Chariandy, Marlon James, and Monique Roffey.
The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination
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The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) reshaped the debates about slavery and freedom throughout the Atlantic world, accelerated the abolitionist movement, precipitated rebellions in neighboring territories, and intensified both repression and antislavery sentiment. The story of the birth of the world's first independent black republic has since held an iconic fascination for a diverse array of writers, artists, and intellectuals throughout the Atlantic diaspora.
Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction
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While postcolonial discourse in the Caribbean has drawn attention to colonialism's impact on space and spatial hierarchy, Stanka Radović asks both how ordinary people as'users'of space have been excluded from active and autonomous participation in shaping their daily spatial reality and how they challenge this exclusion.
Cut 'n' mix: Culture, Identity, and Caribbean Music
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Information on West African roots, current Caribbean politics, calypso of Trinidad, Rastafarian religious teachings, reggae's continuing metamorphosis, women DJs, British two-tone ska, New York rap, and lovers' rock.
The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados
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Best concentrates, in particular, on transformations since 1980 and 2000 respectively, each of which marked the ushering in of new opportunities and challenges to the creation and dissemination of Barbadian popular music. His study considers the telling roles played by the expanding influence of western popular culture, the Internet, post-dancehall and post-soca aesthetics, cyberculture, digital culture, and the subterranean lure of traditional culture.
From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz
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This book explores the complexity of Cuban dance music and the webs that connect it, musically and historically, to other Caribbean music, to salsa, and to Latin Jazz. Establishing a scholarly foundation for the study of this music, Raul A. Fernandez introduces a set of terms, definitions, and empirical information that allow for a broader, more informed discussion.
From Plantation to Paradise? Cultural Politics and Musical Theatre in French Slave Colonies, 1764–1789
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A rigorous study of pre–French Revolution performance practices in Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Powers's book examines the elaborate system of social casting in these colonies; the environments in which nonwhite artists emerged; and both negative and positive contributions of the Catholic Church and the military to operas and concerts produced in the colonies.
Rhythms of Race: Cuban Musicians and the Making of Latino New York City and Miami, 1940-1960
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In her history of music and race in midcentury America, Christina D. Abreu argues that these musicians, through their work in music festivals, nightclubs, social clubs, and television and film productions, played central roles in the development of Cuban, Afro-Cuban, Latino, and Afro-Latino identities and communities. Abreu draws from previously untapped oral histories, cultural materials, and Spanish-language media to uncover the lives and broader social and cultural significance of these vibrant performers.
Sounds of the Citizens: Dancehall and Community in Jamaica
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Jamaicans interact with the dancehall industry and its culture to find their own paths of employment, social identity, and sexual mores. As Sounds of the Citizens illustrates, the world of entertainment in Jamaica is serious business and uniquely positioned as a powerful force within the community.
Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze
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Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze maps anew intellectual and literary history of postcolonial Caribbean writing andthought spanning from the 1930s surrealist movement to the present,crossing the region's language blocs,and focused on the interconnected principles of creativity and commemoration.Exploring the work of René Ménil, Édouard Glissant, Wilson Harris, DerekWalcott, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Pauline Melville, Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson
Creolizing Rousseau
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n 1967, C.L.R. James, the much-celebrated Afro-Trinidadian Marxist, stated that he knew of no figure in history who had “such tremendous influence on such widely separated spheres of humanity” within a few years of his death as the eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
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Paget introduces the general reader to Afro-Caribbean philosophy in this work. Since Afro-Caribbean thought is inherently hybrid in nature, he traces the roots of this discourse in traditional African thought and in the Christian and Enlightenment traditions of Western Europe.
Time, History, and Philosophy in the Works of Wilson Harris
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Wilson Harris' encompassing critical perspectives ranging from African philosophy to Jungian readings through historiography and anthropology. As a result, the cross-cultural quality of Harris'thought emerges as a healing outcome of the traumatic colonial encounter, bringing together elements of Amerindian, African and European origin in an ongoing dialogue with time, nature, and the psyche.
Race, Colonialism, and Social Transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean
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This collection of essays offers a comprehensive overview of colonial legacies of racial and social inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. Rich in theoretical framework and close textual analysis, these essays offer new paradigms and approaches to both reading and resolving the opposing forces of race, class, and the power of states.
The Construction and Representation of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and the World
The definition and evolution of the categories of race and ethnicity have long been topics of debate among historians and scholars of social anthropology. This book examines how the meanings and values of race and ethnicity have been constructed historically and how they are represented symbolically, with particular focus on the Caribbean.
Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles
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Beset by the forces of European colonialism, US imperialism, and neoliberalism, the people of the Antilles have had good reasons to band together politically and economically, yet not all Dominicans, Haitians, and Puerto Ricans have heeded the calls for collective action. Alaí Reyes-Santos argues that the successes or failures relate to the extent Dominicans, Haitians, and Puerto Ricans imagine each other as kin.
Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class and Social Domination
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Race Culture and Identity: Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory from Négritude to Créolité
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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.
Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature
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Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean
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Sex and the Citizen is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that draws on current anxieties about "legitimate" sexual identities and practices across the Caribbean to explore both the impact of globalization and the legacy of the region's history of sexual exploitation during colonialism, slavery, and indentureship.
Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination
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In Island Bodies, Rosamond King examines sexualities, violence, and repression in the Caribbean experience. She analyzes the sexual norms and expectations portrayed in Caribbean and diaspora literature, music, film, and popular culture to show how many individuals contest traditional roles by maneuvering within and/or trying to change their society's binary gender systems.
The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean
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Exploring the Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Culture in the Caribbean; Theoretical Mediations on Gender in the Caribbean;
The Political Terrain of Gender and Sexuality; Sexual Orientation and Male Socialization in the Caribbean; Gender, Sexuality, and Historical Considerations
Sexual Revolutions in Cuba
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In Sexual Revolutions in Cuba Carrie Hamilton delves into the relationship between passion and politics in revolutionary Cuba to present a comprehensive history of sexuality on the island from the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 into the twenty-first century.
Flaming Souls: Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Social Change in Barbados
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Murray unravels the complex historical, social, political, and economic forces through which same-sex desire, identity, and prejudice are produced and valued in this Caribbean nation-state.
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