Caribbean Masala

Author : Dave Ramsaran,Linden F. Lewis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496818058

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Caribbean Masala by Dave Ramsaran,Linden F. Lewis Pdf

Winner of the 2019 Gordon K. & Sybil Lewis Book Award In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the import of exploited South Asian indentured workers in the Caribbean under extreme oppression. Dave Ramsaran and Linden F. Lewis concentrate on the Indian descendants' processes of mixing, assimilating, and adapting while trying desperately to hold on to that which marks a group of people as distinct. In some ways, the lived experience of the Indian community in Guyana and Trinidad represents a cultural contradiction of belonging and non-belonging. In other parts of the Caribbean, people of Indian descent seem so absorbed by the more dominant African culture and through intermarriage that Indo-Caribbean heritage seems less central. In this collaboration based on focus groups, in-depth interviews, and observation, sociologists Ramsaran and Lewis lay out a context within which to develop a broader view of Indians in Guyana and Trinidad, a numerical majority in both countries. They address issues of race and ethnicity but move beyond these familiar aspects to track such factors as ritual, gender, family, and daily life. Ramsaran and Lewis gauge not only an unrelenting process of assimilative creolization on these descendants of India, but also the resilience of this culture in the face of modernization and globalization.

Author : Rita Keresztesi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000221565

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Literary Black Power in the Caribbean by Rita Keresztesi Pdf

Literary Black Power in the Caribbean focuses on the Black Power movement in the anglophone Caribbean as represented and critically debated in literary texts, music and film. This volume is groundbreaking in its focus on the creative arts and artists in their evaluations of, and insights on, the relevance of the Black Power message across the region. The author takes a cultural studies approach to bring together the political with the aesthetic, enriching an already fertile debate on the era and the subject of Black Power in the Caribbean region. The chapters discuss various aspects of Black Power in the Caribbean: on the pages of journals and magazines, at contemporary conferences that radicalized academia to join forces with communities, in fiction and essays by writers and intellectuals, in calypso and reggae music, and in the first films produced in the Caribbean. Produced at the 50th anniversary of the 1970 Black Power Revolution in Port of Spain, Trinidad, this timely book will be of interest to students and academics focusing on Black Power, Caribbean literary and cultural studies, African diaspora, and Global South radical political and cultural theory.

Author : Yvon van der Pijl,Francio Guadeloupe
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781978818668

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Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean by Yvon van der Pijl,Francio Guadeloupe Pdf

Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean explores fundamental questions of equality and freedom on the various non-sovereign islands of the Dutch Caribbean. While this collection of essays recognizes the existence of nationalist independence movements, it challenges conventional assumptions about political non/sovereignty, opening a critical space to look at other forms of political articulation, autonomy, liberty, and a good life.

Author : Atreyee Phukan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781978829121

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Contradictory Indianness by Atreyee Phukan Pdf

As Contradictory Indianness shows, a postcolonial Caribbean aesthetics that has from its inception privileged inclusivity, interraciality, and resistance against Old World colonial orders requires taking into account Indo-Caribbean writers and their reimagining of Indianness in the region. Whereas, for instance, forms of Indo-Caribbean cultural expression in music, cuisine, or religion are more readily accepted as creolizing (thus, Caribbeanizing) processes, an Indo-Caribbean literary imaginary has rarely been studied as such. Discussing the work of Ismith Khan, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Totaram Sanadhya, LalBihari Sharma, and Shani Mootoo, Contradictory Indianness maintains that the writers' engagement with the regional and transnational poetics of the Caribbean underscores symbolic bridges between cultural worlds conventionally set apart—the Africanized and Indianized—and distinguishes between cultural worlds assumed to be the same—indenture and South Asian Indianness. This book privileges Indo-Caribbean fiction as a creolizing literary imaginary to broaden its study beyond a narrow canon that has, inadvertently or not, enabled monolithic and unidimensional perceptions of Indian cultural identity and evolution in the Caribbean, and continued to impose a fragmentary and disconnected study of (post)indenture aesthetics within indenture’s own transnational cartography.

Author : Raymond Ramcharitar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030756345

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A History of Creole Trinidad, 1956-2010 by Raymond Ramcharitar Pdf

This book offers a history of post-Independence Trinidad and Tobago. It explores how culture and politics have operated in tandem to shape the society. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including literature, government reports, official statistics, the press and the Carnival, it critically analyses the popular conception of creolization as the driving force in modern Trinidad and Tobago. Ultimately, the book examines the way in which Trinidad and Tobago's unique ethnic and political ecosystems contribute to its national character.

Author : Ruben Gowricharn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000180411

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Political Integration in Indian Diaspora Societies by Ruben Gowricharn Pdf

This book studies the political integration of Indian diaspora communities into their host societies. It argues that insertion occurs on an ethnic basis which enables these groups to utilise their clout, and at the same time exert collective rights in matters like freedom of religion, organisation and lifestyle. Drawing on case studies from South Africa, America, and the Caribbean, the volume analyses different forms, levels and patterns of groupist political integration. It examines various instances of integration such as anti-Indian apartheid laws; the life and times of Dr Sudhindra Bose, one of the early Bengali intellectuals in the US; Hindutva organisations in the US/UK; as well as the introduction of the Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) Scheme by the Indian government. An important intervention in the study of ethnic groups and their integration, the book will be of interest to students and researchers of diaspora studies, globalization and transnational migration, cultural studies, minority studies, sociology, political studies, international relations, and South Asian studies.

Author : Jill Norman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781465443304

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Herbs & Spices by Jill Norman Pdf

Herbs & Spices is the essential cook's companion, now redesigned and updated with all new recipes. A classic reference, the best-selling Herbs & Spices is a trusted resource in the kitchen, with more than 200 unique herbs and spices from around the world showcased alongside gorgeous, full-color photography, flavor notes, and pairings. This new, updated edition includes the newest herbs, spices, and flavorings influencing global cuisine today, plus more than 180 recipes for main dishes, marinades, pastas, pickles, and sauces. Part spice cookbook, part kitchen encyclopedia, Herbs & Spices offers handy seasoning how-tos: How to identify and choose the best herbs, spices, and other flavorings. How to prepare and cook with them to ensure you are making the most of their flavors. How to make your own blends, spice rubs, sauces, and more - then customize them for your family's palate. Herbs & Spices is perfect for beginning cooks just setting up a kitchen, foodies exploring the deliciously exotic mash-ups of today's modern cooking, and experts looking for ways to experiment with new flavor combinations. This practical illustrated reference book gives you all the guidance you need to become a master of seasonings and to make tantalizing food from around the world.

Author : Sonia Cabano
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781431700523

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Relish by Sonia Cabano Pdf

‘No cook means to serve bland or indifferent food’; this sums up the principle behind Relish, a cookbook that aims to bring flavour into daily cooking, with over 280 recipes covering flavoured salts, sugars and rubs, spice blends and pastes, marinades, dips, stocks, sauces, dressings, pestos, vinegars, oils, pickles, preserves, condiments and relishes. Home-made preparations are tasty, and fun to make, but they are also free from additives and preservatives, can be tailored to suit individual tastes and are often less expensive than the bought equivalent. Recipes include suggestions for how to use and store the finished preparations. In many cases, variations are included. A selection of recipes for finished dishes is scattered throughout the chapters.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004513877

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Against Better Judgement: Rethinking Multicultural Society by Anonim Pdf

A unique collection of essays with surprising twists on multiculturalism, social science, and scholarship covering different societies.

Author : Supriya M. Nair
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603291613

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Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature by Supriya M. Nair Pdf

This volume recognizes that the most challenging aspect of introducing students to anglophone Caribbean literature--the sheer variety of intellectual and artistic traditions in Western and non-Western cultures that relate to it--also offers the greatest opportunities to teachers. Courses on anglophone literature in the Caribbean can consider the region's specific histories and contexts even as they explore common issues: the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and colonial education; nationalism; exile and migration; identity and hybridity; class and racial conflict; gender and sexuality; religion and ritual. This volume considers how the availability of materials shapes syllabuses and recommends print, digital, and visual resources for teaching. The essays examine a host of topics, including the following: the development of multiethnic populations in the Caribbean and the role of various creole languages in the literature oral art forms, such as dub poetry and reggae music the influence of anglophone literature in the Caribbean on literary movements outside it, such as the Harlem Renaissance and black British writing Carnival religious rituals and beliefs specific genres such as slave narratives and autobiography film and drama the economics of rum Many essays list resources for further reading, and the volume concludes with a section of additional teaching resources.

Author : Joy Mahabir,Mariam Pirbhai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136233494

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Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature by Joy Mahabir,Mariam Pirbhai Pdf

This book is the first collection on Indo-Caribbean women's writing and the first work to offer a sustained analysis of the literature from a range of theoretical and critical perspectives, such as ecocriticism, feminist, queer, post-colonial and Caribbean cultural theories. The essays not only lay the framework of an emerging and growing field, but also critically situate internationally acclaimed writers such as Shani Mootoo, Lakshmi Persaud and Ramabai Espinet within this emerging tradition. Indo-Caribbean women writers provide a fresh new perspective in Caribbean literature, be it in their unique representations of plantation history, anti-colonial movements, diasporic identities, feminisms, ethnicity and race, or contemporary Caribbean societies and culture. The book offers a theoretical reading of the poetics, politics and cultural traditions that inform Indo-Caribbean women's writing, arguing that while women writers work with and through postcolonial and Caribbean cultural theories, they also respond to a distinctive set of influences and realities specific to their positioning within the Indo-Caribbean community and the wider national, regional and global imaginary. Contributors visit the overlap between national and transnational engagements in Indo-Caribbean women's literature, considering the writers' response to local or nationally specific contexts, and the writers' response to the diasporic and transnational modalities of Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean communities.

Author : Gabrielle Jamela Hosein,Lisa Outar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137559371

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Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought by Gabrielle Jamela Hosein,Lisa Outar Pdf

Bringing together three generations of scholars, thinkers and activists, this book is the first to trace a genealogy of the specific contributions Indo-Caribbean women have made to Caribbean feminist epistemology and knowledge production. Challenging the centrality of India in considerations of the forms that Indo-Caribbean feminist thought and praxis have taken, the authors turn instead to the terrain of gender negotiations among Caribbean men and women within and across racial, class, religious, and political affiliations. Addressing the specific conditions which emerged within the region and highlighting the cross-racial solidarities and the challenges to narratives of purity that have been constitutive of Indo-Caribbean feminist thought, this collection connects to the broader indentureship diaspora and what can be considered post-indentureship feminist thought. Through examinations of literature, activism, art, biography, scholarship and public sphere practices, the collection highlights the complexity and richness of Indo-Caribbean engagements with feminism and social justice.

Author : Corin Bailey,Roy McCree,Latoya Lazarus,Natalie Dietrich Jones
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000984064

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The Routledge Companion to Applied Qualitative Research in the Caribbean by Corin Bailey,Roy McCree,Latoya Lazarus,Natalie Dietrich Jones Pdf

This cutting-edge book provides a comprehensive examination of applied qualitative research in the Caribbean. It highlights the methodological diversity of qualitative research by drawing on various approaches to the study of Caribbean society, addressing the lack of published qualitative research on the region. Featuring 17 chapters, the book covers five key areas, namely Overview and Introduction; Gender, Crime, and Violence; Gender and Intimate Partner Violence; Health, Management, and Public Policy; and Migration and Tourism. Throughout the course of the book, the chapters explore how different kinds of qualitative research can be used to inform public policy and help deal with a myriad of socioeconomic problems that affect Caribbean people. The book further uses distinct approaches to showcase a diverse selection of qualitative research methods, such as autoethnography, life history, narrative enquiry, participants’ observation, grounded theory, case study, and critical discourse. The book will be beneficial for students and scholars both from the Caribbean and internationally who are engaged in the conduct of qualitative empirical enquiry. It will further hold appeal to advanced undergraduate level classes and postgraduate students along with scholars in the fields of social sciences and education.

Author : Monisha Das Gupta
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822388173

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Unruly Immigrants by Monisha Das Gupta Pdf

In Unruly Immigrants, Monisha Das Gupta explores the innovative strategies that South Asian feminist, queer, and labor organizations in the United States have developed to assert claims to rights for immigrants without the privileges or security of citizenship. Since the 1980s many South Asian immigrants have found the India-centered “model minority” politics of previous generations inadequate to the task of redressing problems such as violence against women, homophobia, racism, and poverty. Thus they have devised new models of immigrant advocacy, seeking rights that are mobile rather than rooted in national membership, and advancing their claims as migrants rather than as citizens-to-be. Creating social justice organizations, they have inventively constructed a transnational complex of rights by drawing on local, national, and international laws to seek entitlements for their constituencies. Das Gupta offers an ethnography of seven South Asian organizations in the northeastern United States, looking at their development and politics as well as the conflicts that have emerged within the groups over questions of sexual, class, and political identities. She examines the ways that women’s organizations have defined and responded to questions of domestic violence as they relate to women’s immigration status; she describes the construction of a transnational South Asian queer identity and culture by people often marginalized by both mainstream South Asian and queer communities in the United States; and she draws attention to the efforts of labor groups who have sought economic justice for taxi drivers and domestic workers by confronting local policies that exploit cheap immigrant labor. Responding to the shortcomings of the state, their communities, and the larger social movements of which they are a part, these groups challenge the assumption that citizenship is the necessary basis of rights claims.

Author : Gupta
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8131713008

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Unruly Immigrants by Gupta Pdf