Displacements and transformations in Caribbean cultures
By: edited by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and Ivette Romero-Cesareo.
Contributors: Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth.; Romero-Cesareo, Ivette.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780813032184
Subjects: Caribbean Area -- Civilization; Caribbean Area -- Relations -- Foreign countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: Endangered species : Carribean ecology and the discourse of the nation / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert; title: Christopher Columbus and the enslavement of the Amerindians / Jalil Sued-Badillo; title: Under the Cuban flag : notions of indigeneity at the end of the nineteenth century / Peter Hulme; title: "To shake this nation as nothing before has shaken it" : C.L.R. James, radical fieldwork, and African American popular culture / Kevin Meehan; title: Moving metaphors : the representation of aids in Caribbean literature and visual arts / Ivette Romero-Cesareo; title: The "children of the sea" : uncovering images of the Botpippel : experience in Caribbean art and literature / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and Martha Daisy Kelehan; title: Testimonial intent and narrative dissonance : the marginal heroes of Miguel Barnet / Michael Aronna; title: Off-beat migrancies : musical displacements in the Hispanic Caribbean / Yolanda Martínez San Miguel; title: The new Atlantis : the ultimate Caribbean archipelago / Antonio Benítez Rojo.