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Author : Clement B. G. London
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477163016
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Author : Sharon Barcan Elswit
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476630014
The Caribbean islands have a vibrant oral folklore. In Jamaica, the clever spider Anansi, who outsmarts stronger animals, is a symbol of triumph by the weak over the powerful. The fables of the foolish Juan Bobo, who tries to bring milk home in a burlap bag, illustrate facets of traditional Puerto Rican life. Conflict over status, identity and power is a recurring theme—in a story from Trinidad, a young bull, raised by his mother in secret, challenges his tyrannical father who has killed all the other males in the herd. One in a series of folklore reference guides by the author, this volume shares summaries of 438 tales—some in danger of disappearing—retold in English and Creole from West African, European, and slave indigenous cultures in 24 countries and territories. Tales are grouped in themed sections with a detailed subject index and extensive links to online sources.
Author : Clement London
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781477178034
This book of stories is prepared as object lessons for middle level readers and young adults. In times like these: fraught with impediments that often cloud the ability to exercise genuine, logical decisions, young people need strong leadership guides that would facilitate their search for participating in their world. Often, the guile from persons who present themselves as paragons of virtue is packaged in not-so-obvious garb that encourages deception. These three stories dramatize the fact that different guises may similarly deceive. Therefore, from the various story characters, one may discern the influences wrought and how such may eventually affect the behaviors of others. From the story about the Tortoise, one may learn how intentions that may initially may appear honest or well-intentioned, may eventually turn sour, because of subsequent abuse of power or the taking of the human spirit for granted. In the story about Mr. Gabilan and Papa Mongoose, one should observe the dynamics of responsibility, and of the extent to which that may lead. The guile pursued should help the reader to note how one may unintentionally perform an act of doing something foolish. Finally, Donkey Strategy may demonstrate such crucial emotion as faith, determination, and hope, as well as the effort to overcome difficulties through persistence and honest grounding which develops to one becoming cool.
Author : Clement B. G. London,Chuka P. B. Ejiofor
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781413426526
Author : A. James Arnold,Julio Rodriguez-Luis,J. Michael Dash
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027284754
This history for the first time charts the literature of the entire Caribbean, the islands as well as continental littoral, as one cultural region. It breaks new ground in establishing a common grid for reading literatures that have been kept separate by their linguistic frontiers. Readers will have access to the best current scholarship on the evolution of popular and literate cultures in the various regions since their earliest emergence. The History of Literature in the Caribbean brings together the most distinguished team of literary Caribbeanists ever assembled, cutting across ideological commitments and critical methods. Differences in point of view between individual contributors are left intact here as the sign of the colonial inheritance of the region. Introductions and conclusions to the various sections of the History written by the respective subeditors, set them in proper perspective. The unique synoptic aspect of the History lies in its comprehensiveness and its range, which are unequaled. Contributors: A. James Arnold, Julio Rodriguez-Luis, H. Lopez Morales, Maria Elena Rodriguez Castro, Silvio Torres Saillant, Seymour Menton, Ian I. Smart, Efrain Barradas, Raquel Chang-Rodriguez, Carlos Alonso, Ivan A. Schulman, W.L. Siemens, William Luis, Gustavo Pellon, Emilio Bejel, Sandra M. Cypess, Peter Earle, Adriana Mndez Rodenas, J. Michael Dash, Ulrich Fleischmann, Maximilien Laroche, Rgis Antoine, Lon-Franois Hoffmann, Randolph Hezekiah, Bridget Jones, F.I. Case, Marie-Denise Shelton, Beverly Ormerod, J. Michael Dash, Jack Corzani, Anthea Morrison, Juris Silenieks, Frantz Fanon, Vere Knight.
Author : Lucy Evans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781381182
This book examines the representation of community in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories, focusing on the most recent wave of Anglophone Caribbean short story writers following the genre's revival in the mid-1980s. The first extended study of Caribbean short stories, it presents the phenomenon of interconnected stories as a significant feature of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Anglophone Caribbean literary cultures. Lucy Evans contends that the short story collection and cycle, literary forms regarded by genre theorists as necessarily concerned with representations of community, are particularly appropriate and enabling as a vehicle through which to conceptualise Caribbean communities. The book covers short story collections and cycles by Olive Senior, Earl Lovelace, Kwame Dawes, Alecia Mckenzie, Lawrence Scott, Mark McWatt, Robert Antoni and Dionne Brand, and argues that the form of interconnected stories is a crucial part of these writers' imagining of communities, which may be fractured, plural and fraught with tensions, but which nevertheless hold together. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of community, bringing literary representations of community into dialogue with models of community developed in the field of Caribbean anthropology. The works analysed are set in Trinidad, Jamaica and Guyana, and in several cases the setting extends to the Caribbean diaspora in Europe and North America. Looking in turn at rural, urban, national and global communities, the book draws attention to changing conceptions of community around the turn of the millennium.
Author : Andrew Salkey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:268795542
Author : Ophelia Powell Torres,Victor Torres
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780595332571
This book is written to bring laughter, humor, and enthusiasm into people's lives.
Author : Amber Drappier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1730965377
"The lingering smell of wet mould hung in the air, and under the glow of the streetlight, her once shapely form was now a series of lumps and bumps clad in dirty old rags that dragged along the floor."FROM THE AUTHOR OF UNNATURAL ENCOUNTERS: ONLY IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO...Island Tales, a series of twenty-seven folklore stories featuring supernatural beings and characters from across the Caribbean region. Characters who have no doubt haunted the dreams and nightmares and maybe even lives of most Caribbean-born people. Stand among the watchful army of pop-culture statues in "The Sculptor" or join the mob against Blue, the thieving shopkeeper in "Tipping the Scales". Stroll along the riverbanks with Nerida in "Water Baby" or maybe just kick back and enjoy a special feature article in the Sunday newspaper entitled "Endless Cycle". But, however you choose to spend your time here, just be sure to remember one thing: always cast a wary eye behind you, lest you end up like poor Mr. Gundy in "Piggy Back Rides for Mr. Gundy".
Author : Joy Allison Indira Mahabir,Mariam Pirbhai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415509671
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 : Ophelia A. Powell-Torres & Victor M. T
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453501931
This book is written to bring laughter, humor, and enthusiasm into the lives of all people and at the same time learn about the Caribbean Islands, the culture and family values.
Author : Velma Pollard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172131822143
The text includes humourous tales, trickery and mischief of Anansi and other folk characters, comic and rhythmic poems, illustrations, glossary, and musical notation with songs.
Author : Petronella Breinburg,Syrah Arnold
Publisher : Hodder Wayland
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Tales
ISBN : 0750224266
The Multicultural Stories series brings together storytellers and artists to retell tales from around the world. Each title contains colourful artwork, while allowing space for the text, so that the different oral traditions are brought to life. Each story is introduced by a short information section that tells the reader about the place and people from which the story comes, and allows children to put the story into context.
Author : Daniel Balderston,Mike Gonzalez
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Caribbean literature
ISBN : 9780415306874
Written by a team of international contributors this work contains more than 200 entries on all aspects of literature. It is invaluable for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature and the Spanish/Portuguese languages.
Author : Albert James Arnold
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0813916461
The 1992 Quincentennial of the encounter between the New World and the Old resulted in a veritable culture war- an extreme polarization of hardened ideological positions on different ideas of America. Monsters, Tricksters, and Sacred Cows brings a fresh perspective to the confusing question of American identity. It clears the minefields laid by the generals commanding the opposing camps, while demonstrating that both sides have been primarily interested in protecting and defending an idea of "Americanness" that cannot resist scrutiny. Some of the leading international scholars in anthropology, comparative literature, and history of the Americas show convincingly in this book that contacts between and among peoples and ethnic groups have, since early colonial times, produced new- and typically American- cultural forms throughout the hemisphere. Monsters, Tricksters, and Sacred Cows will appeal to the general reader and will attract a wide readership in folklore and cultural anthropology as well as in Caribbean and Latin American studies, comparative literature, and history.