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Author : Karen Fog Olwig
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822339943
DIVAn ethnographic study of migration based on the experiences of three dispersed Caribbean families as they maintain networks across their diverse locations./div
Author : Eleonora Natalia Ravizza
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527543881
In contemporary Anglo-Caribbean literature, the dialectic interrelations of “exile” and “return” are essential for conveying meta-reflections on literature and language, as well as the role they play in the construction of personal and collective identities. While this volume focuses on the specificity of a cultural area whose history is marked by colonialism, diaspora, slavery and racial conflicts, it also raises epistemological questions surrounding the complexity of literature, and its function in a world which is ever more composite, hybrid and transcultural. By developing a new, systematic approach which combines post-colonial studies, theories of intertextuality and philosophy of language, it explores how contemporary literary texts reflect, elaborate and redefine the experiences of societies that are currently dealing with ever-growing global interdependencies and newly-formed cultural and semiotic context.
Author : Patrick Leigh Fermor
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781590175224
In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers, set out to explore the then relatively little-visited islands of the Caribbean. Rather than a comprehensive political or historical study of the region, The Traveller’s Tree, Leigh Fermor’s first book, gives us his own vivid, idiosyncratic impressions of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, Barbados, Trinidad, and Haiti, among other islands. Here we watch Leigh Fermor walk the dusty roads of the countryside and the broad avenues of former colonial capitals, equally at home among the peasant and the elite, the laborer and the artist. He listens to steel drum bands, delights in the Congo dancing that closes out Havana’s Carnival, and observes vodou and Rastafarian rites, all with the generous curiosity and easy erudition that readers will recognize from his subsequent classic accounts A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water.
Author : Jason Rich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781440538124
Can’t decide on which island to visit? Worried about keeping your toddlers and teens entertained? Anxious about beach safety or the local menu? The Everything Family Guide to the Caribbean keeps you and the kids in mind—so you can relax and enjoy the vacation you deserve! You can’t beat the Caribbean for fun and excitement—but you want your family vacation to be safe and hassle-free as well. With this all-inclusive handbook as your guide, you’ll learn all about the best family-friendly resorts, beaches, and daytrip adventures. Most important, there’s an age-appropriate rating system that helps you plan just the right activities for your family, including: Scuba diving and snorkeling Parasailing Swimming with dolphins –or sharks! Helicopter and horseback riding tours Scooter and bicycle rentals Hiking and rock climbing And much, much more! Highlighting the top eleven family destinations, including Aruba, The Bahamas, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, The Everything Family Guide to the Caribbean is the ultimate resource for a family vacation that will keep everyone smiling!
Author : Mario Picayo
Publisher : Editorial Campana
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0972561188
Join us in this fun and educational journey through the Caribbean islands, one letter at a time.From Aruba to Trinidad and from Alligator to Yam, you will learn the names of many of the islands, plus fascinating facts about them. A Caribbean astronaut? From which island? Seals in these tropical waters? An island with over 300 rivers? And what is a coki?With beautiful illustrations by Native American artist Earleen Griswold, drawn during her years living in the Virgin Islands, this is a book that you and your family will enjoy opening again and again. It will captivate, entertain, and educate readers from any part of the world.And wait until you see what they did with the Z...
Author : Sharon Fries-Britt,Bridget Turner Kelly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000935141
With the increasing focus on the critical importance of mentoring in advancing Black women students from graduation to careers in academia, this book identifies and considers the peer mentoring contexts and conditions that support Black women student success in higher education. This edited collection focuses on Black women students primarily at the doctoral level and how they have retained each other through their educational journey, emphasizing how they navigated this season of educational changes given COVID and racial unrest. Chapters illuminate what minoritized women students have done to mentor each other to navigate unwelcome campus environments laden with identity politics and other structural barriers. Shining a light on systemic structures in place that contribute to Black women’s alienation in the academy, this book unpacks implications for interactions and engagement with faculty as advisors and mentors. An important resource for faculty and graduate students at colleges and universities, ultimately this work is critical to helping the academy fortify Black women’s sense of belonging and connection early in their academic career and foster their success.
Author : Carlo A. Cubero
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783488377
An ethnographic account of how the islanders of the Caribbean island of Culebra reproduce a sense of unique insular identity, while engaged in continuous practices of regional and global movements.
Author : Philip W. Scher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405105651
perspectives on The Caribbean perspectives on The Caribbean “Genuflecting to no tired metaphors, this is a refreshing collection of cross-disciplinary voices that compel new ways of seeing and thinking about the still undiscovered Caribbean.” Patricia Mohammed, University of the west Indies, St Augustine Presenting a broad understanding of the complex region of the Caribbean, Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation provides a variety of viewpoints on the rich spectrum of Caribbean culture. Essays, carefully chosen from a vast body of existing literature, expose readers to a variety of approaches, voices and topics that have emerged in Caribbean studies. Readings are interdisciplinary in nature and integrate themes from history, folklore, sociology, anthropology and political economy. Both contemporary viewpoints and classic readings reveal how the Caribbean has led scholars to new ways of exploring cultural hybridity in contemporary society. Each section includes brief introductions to put the readings in context with the connections between modern Caribbean culture and its historical roots, and also includes suggested readings for more in-depth study. Perspectives on the Caribbean offers revealing insights into one of the most diverse and complex regions in the Americas.
Author : Elvira Pulitano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317331285
This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations. Focusing on the Caribbean double-diaspora, Pulitano offers a close-reading of a range of popular works by four well-known writers currently living in the United States: Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, and Caryl Phillips. Navigating the map of fictional characters, testimonial accounts, and autobiographical experiences, Pulitano draws attention to the lived experience of contemporary diasporic formations. The book offers a provocative re-thinking of socio-scientific analyses of diaspora by discussing the embodied experience of contemporary diasporic communities, drawing on disciplines such as Caribbean, Postcolonial, Diaspora, and Indigenous Studies along with theories on "border thinking" and coloniality/modernity. Contesting restrictive, national, and linguistic boundaries when discussing literature originating from the Caribbean, Pulitano situates the transnational location of Caribbean-born writers within current debates of Transnational American Studies and investigates the role of immigrant writers in discourses of race, ethnicity, citizenship, and belonging. Exploring the multifarious intersections between home, exile, migration and displacement, the book makes a significant contribution to memory and trauma studies, human rights debates, and international law, aiming at a wide range of scholars and specialized agents beyond the strictly literary circle. This volume affirms the humanity of personal stories and experiences against the invisibility of immigrant subjects in most theoretical accounts of diaspora and migration.
Author : Eugene Fodor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Bahamas
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017896741
Author : Birgit Englert,Barbara Gföllner,Sigrid Thomsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000399073
This book investigates the cultural connections between Africa and the Caribbean, using the lens of Mobility Studies to tease out the shared experiences between these highly diverse parts of the world. Despite their heterogeneity in terms of cultures, languages, and political and economic histories, the connections between the African continent and the Caribbean are manifold, stretching back to the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The authors in this book look to the past as well as to the present, focusing on the manifold mobile connections between the regions’ subjects, objects, ideas, texts, images, sounds, and beliefs. In doing so, the book demonstrates that mobility extends beyond just the movement of people, and that we can also see mobility in objects and ideas, travelling either in a material sense or in imaginary terms, in physical as well as in virtual spaces. Bringing the transdisciplinary fields of African Studies, Caribbean Studies, and Mobility Studies into dialogue, this book will be of interest to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license. Funded by Universität Wien.
Author : Yvon van der Pijl,Francio Guadeloupe
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781978818682
Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean is a collection of essays that explores fundamental questions of equality and freedom on the non-sovereign islands of the Dutch Caribbean. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, historical and media analysis, the study of popular culture, and autoethnographic accounts, the various contributions challenge conventional assumptions about political non/sovereignty. While the book recognizes the existence of nationalist independence movements, it opens a critical space to look at other forms of political articulation, autonomy, liberty, and a good life. Focusing on all six different islands and through a multitude of voices and stories, the volume engages with the everyday projects, ordinary imaginaries, and dreams of equaliberty alongside the work of independistas and traditional social movements aiming for more or full self-determination. As such, it offers a rich and powerful telling of the various ways of being in and belonging to our contemporary postcolonial world.
Author : Nicholas J. Saunders
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576077023
A true "first," this encyclopedia is the only comprehensive guide ever published on the archaeology and traditional culture of the Caribbean. In The Peoples of the Caribbean, archaeologist Nicholas J. Saunders assembles for the first time a comprehensive sourcebook on the archaeology, folklore, and mythology of the entire region, charting a story 7,000 years in the making. Drawing on decades of study in the Caribbean and South America, Saunders explores landmark archaeological sites, such as Caguana in Puerto Rico, with its ceremonial architecture and ballcourts, and plantation sites, such as Jamaica's Drax Hall. The author dives into the underwater archaeology of Spanish treasure galleons and untangles stories of cannibalism, zombies, and hallucinogenic snuffing rituals. He examines the impact of key Europeans, such as Christopher Columbus, and introduces readers to the native people, such as the Arawak, who welcomed them. Bringing the story up-to-date, Saunders chronicles the struggle of the indigenous people, from the Caribs of Dominica to the Taíno of the Dominican Republic, trying to reclaim and revitalize their historical cultural identity.
Author : Nathaniel Phillips,Lady Henrietta Liston,William Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : West Indies
ISBN : OCLC:316211154
Author : Myriam Moïse,Fred Réno
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030459390
A dividing line, the border is usually perceived in terms of separation and rupture. It is a site of tension par excellence, at the origin of contestations, negotiations, and other conflicting patterns of inclusion/exclusion. This book takes us through an exploration of the border in the Caribbean region, both geographically fragmented and strongly tied through its history, culture and people. This collection of scholarly articles interrogates the border within the specificities of the Caribbean context, its socio-political dynamics and its literary and artistic representations. The transgression of borders and the consequent reconfiguring phenomena are thus applied to the Caribbean and its diasporas, through a transdisciplinary approach. The book combines a multiplicity of research fields, including Social Sciences, Cultural Geography, Geopolitics, Cultural and Literary Studies, hence it offers a global perspective on the topic and transcends disciplinary categories. The contents of the book also stretch beyond geographic and linguistic borders as the contributors come from diverse scholarly backgrounds, affiliations, linguistic areas, and research expertise.