Cultural Mobilities Between Africa And The Caribbean

Author : Birgit Englert,Barbara Gföllner,Sigrid Thomsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000399073

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Cultural Mobilities Between Africa and the Caribbean by Birgit Englert,Barbara Gföllner,Sigrid Thomsen Pdf

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 : Alan Gregor Cobley,Alvin O. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Africa
ISBN : UVA:X002163401

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The African-Caribbean Connection by Alan Gregor Cobley,Alvin O. Thompson Pdf

Author : Osita Okagbue
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781912234264

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Culture and Identity in African and Caribbean Theatre by Osita Okagbue Pdf

What connects Africa and the Caribbean is trans-Atlantic slavery which transported numerous sons and daughters of Africa to the plantations of the New World in the service of Western European capitalism. Because of this shared experience of trans-Atlantic slavery and European colonialism, issues of culture and identity are major concerns for African and Caribbean playwrights. Slavery and colonialism had involved systematic acts of cultural denigration, de-humanisation and loss of freedom, which left imprints on the collective psyches of the colonised Africans and enslaved peoples of African descent in the Caribbean. Both experiences brought intense cultural and psychic dislocations which still impact in various ways on the lives of Africans and peoples of African descent around the world. African and Caribbean playwrights try to help their peoples regain their dignities by affirming their cultures, histories and identities. The book focuses on the similarities and differences between Caribbean theatre and the theatre of sub-Saharan Africa, showing how identities and cultures are negotiated and affirmed in each case.

Author : Osita Okagbue,Osy A. Okagbue
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1905068603

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Culture and Identity in African and Caribbean Theatre by Osita Okagbue,Osy A. Okagbue Pdf

Because of a shared experience of European colonialism and trans-Atlantic slavery, issues of culture and identity are major concerns for African and Caribbean playwrights. Slavery and colonialism had involved systematic acts of cultural denigration, de-humanization and loss of freedom, which left imprints on the collective psyches of the colonized Africans and enslaved peoples of African descent in the Caribbean. Both experiences brought intense cultural and psychic dislocations which still impact in various ways on the lives of Africans and peoples of African descent around the world. African and Caribbean playwrights try to help their peoples regain their dignities by affirming their cultures, histories and identities. The book focuses on the similarities and differences between Caribbean theatre and the theatre of sub-Saharan Africa, showing how identities and cultures are negotiated and affirmed in each case.

Author : Valentina Pedone,Gaoheng Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031392597

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Cultural Mobilities Between China and Italy by Valentina Pedone,Gaoheng Zhang Pdf

This book offers a critical analysis of global mobilities across China and Italy in history. In three periods in the twentieth century, new patterns of physical mobilities and cultural contact were established between the two countries which were either novel at the time of their emergence or impactful on subsequent periods. The first two chapters provide overviews of writings by Italians in China and by Chinese in Italy in the twentieth century. The remaining chapters cover: Republican China’s relationships with Italy and Italian Fascist colonialism in China during the 1920s–1930s; Italian travelers to China during the Cold War from the 1950s to the 1970s; migrations between China and Italy during the 2000s–2010s. In analyzing these cultural mobilities, this book opens a new line of inquiry in Chinese-Italian Cultural Studies, which has been dominated by historical study, and contributes a significant case study to the scholarship on global cultural mobilities.

Author : Lokangaka Losambe,Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040013984

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The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature by Lokangaka Losambe,Tanure Ojaide Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world, this book investigates three major aesthetic paradigms in African diasporic literature: the Sankofan wave (late 1960s–early 1990s); the Janusian wave (1990s–2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants (those born and growing up outside Africa). Written by well-established and emerging scholars of African and diasporic literatures from across the world, the chapters in the book cover the works of well-known and not-so-well-known Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone writers from different theoretical positionalities and critical approaches, pointing out the unique innovative artistic qualities of this major subgenre of African literature. The focus on the “diasporic consciousness” of the writers and their works sets this handbook apart from others that solely emphasize migration, which is more of a process than the community of settled African people involved in the dynamic acts of living reflected in diasporic writings. This book will appeal to researchers and students from across the fields of Literature, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Migration Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.

Author : Judith Ann-Marie Byfield,LaRay Denzer,Anthea Morrison
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : African diaspora
ISBN : 9780253354167

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Gendering the African Diaspora by Judith Ann-Marie Byfield,LaRay Denzer,Anthea Morrison Pdf

"This volume builds on and extends current discussions of the construction of gendered identities and the networks through which men and women engage diaspora. It considers the movement of people and ideas between the Caribbean and the Nigerian hinterland. The contributions examine Africa in the Caribbean imaginary, the way in which gender ideologies inform Caribbean men's and women's theoretical or real-life engagement with the continent, and the interactions and experiences of Caribbean travelers in Africa and Europe. The contributions are linked as well through empire, discussing different parts of the British Empire and allowing for the comparative examination of colonial policies and practices."--Back cover.

Author : Margaret E. Crahan,Franklin W. Knight
Publisher : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Black people
ISBN : UVA:X000072816

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Africa and the Caribbean by Margaret E. Crahan,Franklin W. Knight Pdf

Author : Maureen Warner-Lewis
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9766401187

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Central Africa in the Caribbean by Maureen Warner-Lewis Pdf

A sweeping, multidisciplinary study that analyzes and identifies some of the main lineaments of the Central African cultural legacy in the Caribbean. This long-awaited study is based on more than three decades of research and analysis. Scholars will be fascinated with the transatlantic comparative data. The author identifies Central African cultural forms in those areas settled in Africa by the Koongo, Mbundu, and Ovimbunde. (The modern-day locations of these three ethnic groups are present-day Congo, Zaire and Angola.) The book illuminates Caribbean thought and practice by comparison with Central African worldview and custom. The work is based on extensive primary and secondary sources, oral interviews, letters and diaries, folktales, proverbs and songs. In its multidisciplinary approach and depth, it highlights the debate concerning the origin and transformation of cultural forms in the Caribbean against a larger background of African culture, economy, colonialism, slavery, emancipation and independence. With its Central African focus, the book is a pioneering perspective on Caribbean cultural forms. A noted linguist, the author uses her knowledge of the most functional languages

Author : Lucie Pradel
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Afro-Caribbean cults
ISBN : 0865437033

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African Beliefs in the New World by Lucie Pradel Pdf

Like a kaleidoscope, the Caribbean world displays the vibrant colors of its diversity. Ethnic groups from four continents brought their customs and beliefs to this New World. The sheer number of African people brought to the Caribbean islands perpetuated through their spiritual vitality, the central role played by traditional religions in African life. Though they hadn't brought along the material support of their worship, they had buried in their memory other essential supports: memories of gods, of myths, rites, rhythms, tales, legends, proverbs, songs, dances, sculptures, all the fundamental vectors of their religious thought. Through a process of secularization, continuity, adaptation, creation, syncretism and synthesis, these elements helped vitalize the artistic, profane and sacred domains of Caribbean cultures.

Author : Patricia García
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031427985

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Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism by Patricia García Pdf

Author : Mamadou Badiane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739125533

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The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity by Mamadou Badiane Pdf

The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity: Negrismo and N gritude looks primarily at Negrismo and N gritude, two literary movements that appeared in the Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean as well as in Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. It draws on speeches and manifestos, and use cultural studies to contextualize ideas. It poses the bases of both movements in the Caribbean and in Africa, and lays out the literary antecedents that influenced or shaped both movements. This book examines the search for cultural identity through the poetry of Nicolas Guill n, Manuel del Cabral, and Pal s Matos. This search is extended to the N gritude movement through the poems of L opold Senghor, L on-Gontran Damas, and Aim C saire. Mamadou Badiane further discusses the under-represented N gritude women writers who were silenced by their male counterparts during the first half of the twentieth century. Ultimately, this is a book on Caribbean cultural identity that shows it in a slippery and fluctuating zone. By demonstrating that while the founders of the N gritude movement both identified themselves as descendants of Africans and were proud to proclaim their African heritage, the members of the Antillanit and Cr olit movements see themselves as a product of miscegenation between different cultures.

Author : Mimi Sheller
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788979573

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Advanced Introduction to Mobilities by Mimi Sheller Pdf

Leading mobilities theorist Mimi Sheller offers an up-to-date, comprehensive analysis of the complex mobility disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath in this timely Advanced Introduction. It outlines the formation of the interdisciplinary field of mobility studies, arguing that mobilities theory is crucial to planning post-pandemic recovery, sustainable communities, and low-carbon transitions. From tourism to migration to urban infrastructure, to informal and reproductive mobilities, Sheller reveals how multiple im/mobilities are interconnected, as the novel coronavirus reminds us as it hitchhikes across the globe through its human hosts.

Author : Louis Mendy
Publisher : Harmattan Sénégal
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782343251837

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Representations of Africa in American and Caribbean Studies N° 1 Dédembre 2021 by Louis Mendy Pdf

Author : Karen Fog Olwig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002266621

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Global Culture, Island Identity by Karen Fog Olwig Pdf

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.