Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Cultures [electronic resource] /
Romero-Cesareo, Ivette.
Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2008.
The geopolitical contours of the Caribbean have changed greatly over the centuries. This wide-ranging volume aims to reflect such change, as well as the diversity of the region. Covering all parts of the region, and most linguistic groups, the essays address a variety of topics: from the colonial slave trade to AIDS in the 21st century.
The geopolitical contours of the Caribbean have changed greatly over the centuries. This wide-ranging volume aims to reflect such change, as well as the diversity of the region. Covering all parts of the region, and most linguistic groups, the essays address a variety of topics: from the colonial slave trade to AIDS in the 21st century.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-242) and index.
Endangered species : Carribean ecology and the discourse of the nation / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- Christopher Columbus and the enslavement of the Amerindians / Jalil Sued-Badillo -- Under the Cuban flag : notions of indigeneity at the end of the nineteenth century / Peter Hulme -- "To shake this nation as nothing before has shaken it" : C.L.R. James, radical fieldwork, and African American popular culture / Kevin Meehan -- Moving metaphors : the representation of aids in Caribbean literature and visual arts / Ivette Romero-Cesareo -- The "children of the sea" : uncovering images of the Botpippel : experience in Caribbean art and literature / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and Martha Daisy Kelehan -- Testimonial intent and narrative dissonance : the marginal heroes of Miguel Barnet / Michael Aronna -- Off-beat migrancies : musical displacements in the Hispanic Caribbean / Yolanda Martínez San Miguel -- The new Atlantis : the ultimate Caribbean archipelago / Antonio Benítez Rojo.
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