Transnational Narratives From The Caribbean

Author : Elvira Pulitano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317331285

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Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean by Elvira Pulitano Pdf

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 : Elvira Pulitano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317331278

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Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean by Elvira Pulitano Pdf

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 : Kezia Page
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136921988

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Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature by Kezia Page Pdf

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Page casts light on the role of citizenship, immigration, and transnational mobility in Caribbean migrant and diaspora fiction. Page's historical, socio-cultural study responds to the general trend in migration discourse that presents the Caribbean experience as unidirectional and uniform across the geographical spaces of home and diaspora. She argues that engaging the Caribbean diaspora and the massive waves of migration from the region that have punctuated its history, involves not only understanding communities in host countries and the conflicted identities of second generation subjectivities, but also interpreting how these communities interrelate with and affect communities at home. In particular, Page examines two socio-economic and political practices, remittance and deportation, exploring how they function as tropes in migrant literature, and as ways of theorizing such literature.

Author : Jean Besson,Karen Fog Olwig
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X004836989

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Caribbean Narratives of Belonging by Jean Besson,Karen Fog Olwig Pdf

Contemporary Caribbean society emerged within a complex framework of extensive and exploitive interconnections on a global scale, and unequal, inter-cultural, social relations at the local level. This book explores the communities of belonging that Caribbean people have created and sustained, as they have carved out a life for themselves within this context of social, economic and cultural complexity. Caribbean narratives offer a fertile ground in which to explore notions and practices of belonging, because they are rich in empirical data on the lives experienced by various Caribbean people. At the same time they point to the shared socio-cultural orders that give meaning and purpose to these lives. By analyzing narratives as accounts of lived lives, as a way of structuring the past, and as modes of communication and performance, the chapters in this volume develop important insights into Caribbean culture and bring fresh perspectives to cross-cultural research on narratives and their articulation with fields of social relations and sites of cultural identity. The sixteen chapters by anthropologists, geographers, historians and sociologists are based on in-depth research from throughout the Caribbean region and among Caribbean migrants and their descendents in Europe and North America

Author : Cynthia James
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015055802964

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The Maroon Narrative by Cynthia James Pdf

This book analyzes the concept of the maroon to provide a better understanding of Caribbean literature.

Author : Joy Allison Indira Mahabir,Mariam Pirbhai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415509671

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Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature by Joy Allison Indira 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 : Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe
Publisher : University of Massachusetts Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015019397721

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Caribbean Women Writers by Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe Pdf

In 1831, three years before England abolished slavery in the British Caribbean, the narrative of Mary Prince was published in London. It was the first account written by a Caribbean slave to be published. Although narratives and stories of Caribbean women have appeared sporadically in subsequent years, it is only since 1970 that a wave of women's writing has innudated the field, thereby changing the horizons of Caribbean literature.

Author : Wiebke Beushausen,Miriam Brandel,Joseph T. Farquharson,Marius Littschwager,Annika McPherson,Julia Roth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351838771

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Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean by Wiebke Beushausen,Miriam Brandel,Joseph T. Farquharson,Marius Littschwager,Annika McPherson,Julia Roth Pdf

The Caribbean has played a crucial geopolitical role in the Western pursuit of economic dominance, yet Eurocentric research usually treats the Caribbean as a peripheral region, consequently labelling the inhabitants as beings without agency. Examining asymmetrical relations of power in the Greater Caribbean in historical and contemporary perspectives, this volume explores the region’s history of resistance and subversion of oppressive structures against the backdrop of the Caribbean’s central role for the accumulation of wealth of European and North American actors and the respective dialectics of modernity/coloniality, through a variety of experiences inducing migration, transnational exchange and transculturation. Contributors approach the Caribbean as an empowered space of opposition and agency and focus on perspectives of the region as a place of entanglements with a long history of political and cultural practices of resistance to colonization, inequality, heteronomy, purity, invisibilization, and exploitation. An important contribution to the literature on agency and resistance in the Caribbean, this volume offers a new perspective on the region as a geopolitically, economically and culturally crucial space, and it will interest researchers in the fields of Caribbean politics, literature and heritage, colonialism, entangled histories, global studies perspectives, ethnicity, gender, and migration.

Author : Z. Pecic
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137379030

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Queer Narratives of the Caribbean Diaspora by Z. Pecic Pdf

This book examines the concept of queer theory and combines it with the field of diaspora studies. By looking at the queer diasporic narratives in and from the Caribbean, it conducts an inquiry into the workings and underpinnings of both fields.

Author : Harry Goulbourne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 9768189150

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Caribbean Transnational Experience by Harry Goulbourne Pdf

'A timely account and analysis of the lived reality ... of West Indians who now tenant the Caribbean Diaspora in Britain.' --Professor Rex Nettleford, University W Indies

Author : Emily Allen Williams,Melvin B. Rahming
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114594695

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Changing Currents by Emily Allen Williams,Melvin B. Rahming Pdf

Author : Rudyard Alcocer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135875640

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Narrative Mutations by Rudyard Alcocer Pdf

Given the welcomed shift throughout the academy away from essentialist and biologically fixed understandings of "race" and the body, it is a curiosity worth exploring that so many sophisticated-and even radical-narratives retain physical and behavioral heredity as a guiding trope. The persistence of this concept in Caribbean literature informs not only discourses on race, ethnicity, and sexuality, but also conceptions of personal and regional identity in a postcolonial societies once dominated by slavery and the plantation. In this book, Rudyard Alcocer offers a theory of Caribbean narrative, accounting for the complex interactions between scientific and literary discourses while expanding the horizons of narrative studies in general. Covering works from Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea through contemporary fiction from the Hispanic Caribbean, Narrative Mutations analyzes the processes and concepts associated with heredity in exploring what it means to be "Caribbean."

Author : Mary Chamberlain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351520362

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Family Love in the Diaspora by Mary Chamberlain Pdf

Colonial social policy in the British West Indies from the nineteenth century onward assumed that black families lacked morals, structure, and men, a void that explained poverty and lack of citizenship. African-Caribbean families appeared as the mirror opposite of the "ideal" family advocated by the white, colonial authorities. Yet contrary to this image, what provided continuity in the period and contributed to survival was in fact the strength of family connections, their inclusivity and support. This study is based on 150 life story narratives across three generations of forty-five families who originated in the former British West Indies. The author focuses on the particular axes of Caribbean peoples from the former British colonies of Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados, and Great Britain. Divided into four parts, the chapters within each present an oral history of migrant African-Caribbean families, demonstrating the varieties, organization, and dynamics of family through their memories and narratives. It traces the evolution of Caribbean life; argues how the family can be seen as the tool that helps transmit and transform historical mentalities; examines the dynamics of family life; and makes comparisons with Indo-Caribbean families. Above all, this is a story of families that evolved, against the odds of slavery and poverty, to form a distinct Creole form, through which much of the social history of the English-speaking Caribbean is refracted. "Family Love in the Diaspora" offers an important new perspective on African-Caribbean families, their history, and the problems they face, for now and the future. It offers a long overdue historical dimension to the debates on Caribbean families.

Author : Mary Chamberlain
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412829298

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Narratives of Exile and Return by Mary Chamberlain Pdf

Author : Percival, John
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447301233

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Return migration in later life by Percival, John Pdf

The main objective of this edited volume is to explore the motivations, decision making processes, and consequences, when older people consider or accomplish return migration to their place of origin; and also to raise the public policy profile of this increasingly important subject. The book examines in detail a range of themes affecting return migrations, including: family ties, obligations and their emotive strengths; comparative quality, and cost, of health and welfare provision in host and home countries; older age transitions and cultural affinity with homeland; and psychological adjustment, belonging and attachment to place.