Folk Stories From The Hills Of Puerto Rico Cuentos Folklóricos De Las Montañas De Puerto Rico

Author : Rafael Ocasio
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781978823013

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Folk Stories from the Hills of Puerto Rico / Cuentos folklóricos de las montañas de Puerto Rico by Rafael Ocasio Pdf

This exciting new anthology gathers together Puerto Rican folktales that were passed down orally for generations before finally being transcribed beginning in 1914 by the team of famous anthropologist Franz Boas. These charming tales give readers a window into the imaginations and aspirations of Puerto Rico’s peasants, the Jíbaro. Some stories provide a distinctive Caribbean twist on classic tales including “Snow White” and “Cinderella.” Others fictionalize the lives of local historical figures, such as infamous pirate Roberto Cofresí, rendered here as a Robin Hood figure who subverts the colonial social order. The collection also introduces such beloved local characters as Cucarachita Martina, the kind cockroach who falls in love with Ratoncito Pérez, her devoted mouse husband who brings her delicious food. Including a fresh English translation of each folktale as well as the original Spanish version, the collection also contains an introduction from literary historian Rafael Ocasio that highlights the historical importance of these tales and the Jíbaro cultural values they impart. These vibrant, funny, and poignant stories will give readers unique insights into Puerto Rico’s rich cultural heritage. Esta nueva y emocionante antología reúne cuentos populares puertorriqueños que fueron transmitidos oralmente durante generaciones antes de ser finalmente transcritos comenzando en 1914 por el equipo del famoso antropólogo Franz Boas. Estos encantadores cuentos ofrecen a los lectores un vistazo a la imaginación y las aspiraciones de los jíbaros, los campesinos de Puerto Rico. Algunas historias brindan un distintivo toque caribeño a cuentos clásicos como "Blanca Nieves" y "Cenicienta". Otros ficcionalizan la vida de personajes históricos locales, como el famoso pirata Roberto Cofresí, representado como una figura al estilo de Robin Hood, quien subvierte el orden social colonial. La colección también presenta personajes locales tan queridos como Cucarachita Martina, la amable cucaracha que se enamora de Ratoncito Pérez, su devoto esposo ratón que le trae deliciosa comida. Incluyendo una nueva traducción al inglés de estos cuentos populares, así como las versiones originales en español, la colección también contiene una introducción del historiador literario Rafael Ocasio, quien destaca la importancia histórica de estos cuentos y los valores culturales del jíbaro que éstos imparten en los relatos. Estas historias vibrantes, divertidas y conmovedoras brindarán a los lectores una visión única de la rica herencia cultural de Puerto Rico. Introducción en español (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/03154419/Ocasio_Cuentos_Intro_Espan%CC%83ol.pdf)

Author : Sandro R. Barros,Rafael Ocasio,Angela L. Willis
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683403098

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The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas by Sandro R. Barros,Rafael Ocasio,Angela L. Willis Pdf

International Latino Book Awards, Honorable Mention, Best Biography (English) American Educational Research Association, Division B: Curriculum Studies, Outstanding Book Award Focusing on the didactic nature of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, this book demonstrates the Cuban writer’s influence as public pedagogue, mentor, and social activist whose teaching on resistance to normative ideologies resonates in societies past, present, and future. Through a multidisciplinary approach bridging educational, historiographic, and literary perspectives, The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas illuminates how Arenas’s work remains a cutting-edge source of inspiration for today’s audiences, particularly LGBTQI readers. It shows how Arenas’s aesthetics contain powerful insights for exploring dissensus whether in the context of Cuba, broader Pan-American and Latinx-U.S. queer movements of social justice, or transnational citizenship politics. Carefully dissecting Arenas’s themes against the backdrop of his political activity, this book presents the writer’s poetry, novels, and plays as a curriculum of dissidence that provides models for socially engaged intellectual activism. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Author : Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781978822443

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Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time by Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann Pdf

Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time examines literary magazines generated during the 1940s that catapulted Caribbean literature into greater international circulation and contributed significantly to social, political, and aesthetic frameworks for decolonization, including Pan-Caribbean discourse. This book demonstrates the material, political, and aesthetic dimensions of Pan-Caribbean literary discourse in magazine texts by Suzanne and Aimé Césaire, Nicolás Guillén, José Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier, George Lamming, Derek Walcott and their contemporaries. Although local infrastructure for book production in the insular Caribbean was minimal throughout the twentieth century, books, largely produced abroad, have remained primary objects of inquiry for Caribbean intellectuals. The critical focus on books has obscured the canonical centrality of literary magazines to Caribbean literature, politics, and social theory. Up against the imperial Goliath of the global book industry, Caribbean literary magazines have waged a guerrilla pursuit for the terms of Caribbean representation.

Author : Patricia Joan Saunders
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813571225

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Buyers Beware by Patricia Joan Saunders Pdf

Buyers Beware treats Caribbean pop cultural texts with the same critical attention as dominant mass cultural representations of the region to read them against the grain and consider how, and whether, their "pulp" preoccupation with contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for how race, class, gender, sexuality, and national politics are disseminated and consumed within the Caribbean.

Author : Jocelyn Fenton Stitt
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781978806566

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Dreams of Archives Unfolded by Jocelyn Fenton Stitt Pdf

The first book on pan-Caribbean life writing, Dreams of Archives Unfolded reveals the innovative formal practices used to write about historical absences within contemporary personal narratives. Although the premier genres of writing postcoloniality in the Caribbean have been understood to be fiction and poetry, established figures such as Erna Brodber, Maryse Condé, Lorna Goodison, Edwidge Danticat, Saidiya Hartmann, Ruth Behar, and Dionne Brand and emerging writers such as Yvonne Shorter Brown, and Gaiutra Bahadur use life writing to question the relationship between the past and the present. Stitt theorizes that the remarkable flowering of life writing by Caribbean women since 2000 is not an imitation of the “memoir boom” in North America and Europe; instead, it marks a different use of the genre born out of encountering gendered absences in archives and ancestral memory that cannot be filled with more research. Dreams of Archives makes a significant contribution to studies of Caribbean literature by demonstrating that women’s autobiographical narratives published in the past twenty years are feminist epistemological projects that rework Caribbean studies’ longstanding commitment to creating counter-archives.

Author : Vincent Joos
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978820609

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Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships by Vincent Joos Pdf

Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It describes the failures of international aid in Haiti while it analyzes examples of Haitian-based reconstruction and economic practices. By interrogating the relationship between indigenous uses of the cityscape and the urbanization of the countryside within a framework that centers on the violence of urban planning, the book shows that the forms of economic development promoted by international agencies institutionalize impermanence and instability. Conversely, it shows how everyday Haitians use and transform the city to create spaces of belonging and forms of citizenship anchored in a long history of resistance to extractive economies. Taking readers into the remnants of failed industrial projects in Haitian provinces and into the streets, rubble, and homes of Port-au-Prince, this book reflects on the possibilities and meanings of dwelling in post-disaster urban landscapes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781496233325

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Franz Boas by Anonim Pdf

Author : Keja L. Valens
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-16
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781978829565

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Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence by Keja L. Valens Pdf

Women across the Caribbean have been writing, reading, and exchanging cookbooks since at least the turn of the nineteenth century. These cookbooks are about much more than cooking. Through cookbooks, Caribbean women, and a few men, have shaped, embedded, and contested colonial and domestic orders, delineated the contours of independent national cultures, and transformed tastes for independence into flavors of domestic autonomy. Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence integrates new documents into the Caribbean archive and presents them in a rare pan-Caribbean perspective. The first book-length consideration of Caribbean cookbooks, Culinary Colonialism joins a growing body of work in Caribbean studies and food studies that considers the intersections of food writing, race, class, gender, and nationality. A selection of recipes, culled from the archive that Culinary Colonialism assembles, allows readers to savor the confluence of culinary traditions and local specifications that connect and distinguish national cuisines in the Caribbean.

Author : Samuel Ginsburg
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781978836235

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The Cyborg Caribbean by Samuel Ginsburg Pdf

The Cyborg Caribbean examines a wide range of twenty-first-century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican science fiction texts, arguing that authors from Pedro Cabiya, Alexandra Pagan-Velez, and Vagabond Beaumont to Yasmin Silvia Portales, Erick Mota, and Yoss, Haris Durrani, and Rita Indiana Hernandez, among others, negotiate rhetorical legacies of historical techno-colonialism and techno-authoritarianism. The authors span the Hispanic Caribbean and their respective diasporas, reflecting how science fiction as a genre has the ability to manipulate political borders. As both a literary and historical study, the book traces four different technologies—electroconvulsive therapy, nuclear weapons, space exploration, and digital avatars—that have transformed understandings of corporality and humanity in the Caribbean. By recognizing the ways that increased technology may amplify the marginalization of bodies based on race, gender, sexuality, and other factors, the science fiction texts studied in this book challenge oppressive narratives that link technological and sociopolitical progress. .

Author : Yvon van der Pijl,Francio Guadeloupe
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781978818682

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

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 : Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978821361

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Erotic Cartographies by Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan Pdf

Erotic Cartographies uses maps drawn by Trinidadian same-sex-loving women to demonstrate how their gender performance, erotic autonomy, and space-making practices contest their invisibility and exclusion from discourses of belonging, and challenge colonial discourses and practices related to gender, knowledge, and power in Trinidadian society.

Author : Nikoli A. Attai
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978830370

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Defiant Bodies by Nikoli A. Attai Pdf

In the Anglophone Caribbean, international queer human rights activists strategically located within and outside of the region have dominated interventions seeking to address issues affecting people across the region; a trend that is premised on an idea that the Caribbean is extremely homophobic and transphobic, resulting in violence and death for people who defy dominant sexual and gender boundaries. Human rights activists continue to utilize international financial and political resources to influence these interventions and the region’s engagement on issues of homophobia, transphobia, discrimination, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This focus, however, elides the deeply complex nature of queerness across different spaces and places, and fails to fully account for the nuances of queer sexual and gender politics and community making across the Caribbean. Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean problematizes the neocolonial and homoimperial nature of queer human rights activism in in four Anglophone Caribbean nations -- Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago -- and thinks critically about the limits of human rights as a tool for seeking queer liberation. It also offers critical insight into the ways that queer people negotiate, resist, and disrupt homophobia, transphobia, and discrimination by mobilizing “on the ground” and creating transgressive communities within the region.

Author : Atreyee Phukan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781978829107

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Contradictory Indianness by Atreyee Phukan Pdf

As Contradictory Indianness endeavors to show, 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. This book's unique contribution lies in an explicit privileging of 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.

Author : Terrence Leslie Hansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173007521593

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The Types of the Folktale in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Spanish South America by Terrence Leslie Hansen Pdf

Author : Pura Belpré
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 1594577420

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Perez Y Martina by Pura Belpré Pdf

Una clasica de libros infantiles.