Writings On Caribbean History Literature Art And Culture

Author : Irline François
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art, Caribbean
ISBN : 1527505510

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Writings on Caribbean History, Literature, Art and Culture by Irline François Pdf

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Caribbean and Latin American studies, social and cultural history, women and gender studies, and diasporic studies. In addition, given the transnational and transdisciplinary nature of the books themes, it will also attract the attention of academics whose research focuses more generally on ethnic, postcolonial and Atlantic studies. The volume complements existing Caribbean titles across linguistic borders. However, its distinguishing feature is the intertextual unity, quality and visual imagery of the essays. The book explores the ways in which Caribbean writers, artists and literary scholars explore in their narratives a historical process embedded in genocidal, spatial and ecocidal violence seared in their pasts and their present. It draws attention intertextually to the way history shapes the memories of Caribbean writers, literary critics and artists, and the inventive ways they have found to remember the afterlife of those practices.

Author : Dorsía Smith,Tatiana Tagirova
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443827645

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Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture by Dorsía Smith,Tatiana Tagirova Pdf

Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture is a collection of a dozen essays by Caribbean scholars living in the Caribbean and around the world. Each of the three sections of the book explores the Caribbean as a diasporic space through the lenses of literary and cultural systems. “Negotiating Borders: Women, Sexuality, and Identity” examines the creolized identities of Caribbean societies, gender roles of women, impact of sexual tourism, and censorship of Latino gays and lesbians. The essayists in this section note that much work still needs to be done in academia to give voice to repressed Caribbean populations. “Creating Spaces of Caribbean Artistic Expression: Multiple Representations” focuses on how music, identity, art, and language depict the diversity of the Caribbean experience. In this section, the essayists examine how the process of creation extends to new cultural expressions. “Deconstructing the Diaspora: Caribbean Writers as Political Activists” takes into account the tension between oppressor and oppressed, a pressing issue for many Caribbean authors, and focuses on the role of writers in reconstructing Caribbean culture, politics, and history. In pursuit of a more comprehensive West Indian view, this publication provides a novel perspective on Caribbean literary, cultural, and historical experience. The essays featured complement each other in their representation of the multiplicitous Caribbean region with all its claims and anxieties. They cover a wide range of writers and diverse cross-cultural encounters within the Caribbean region and reflect on issues such as Caribbean identity, migration, and artistic form of expression. This publication cuts across geographies, cultures, and disciplines, enriching Caribbean scholarship by recognizing the Caribbean’s tradition of resistance and courage.

Author : Louis James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317871217

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Caribbean Literature in English by Louis James Pdf

Caribbean Literature in English places its subject in its precise regional context. The `Caribbean', generally considered as one area, is highly discrete in its topography, race and languages, including mainland Guyana, the Atlantic island of Barbados, the Lesser Antilles, Trinidad, and Jamaica, whose size and history gave it an early sense of separate nationhood. Beginning with Raleigh's Discoverie of...Guiana (1596), this innovative study traces the sometimes surprising evolution of cultures which shared a common experience of slavery, but were intimately related to individual local areas. The approach is interdisciplinary, examining the heritage of the plantation era, and the issues of language and racial identity it created. From this base, Louis James reassesses the phenomenal expansion of writing in the contemporary period. He traces the influence of pan-Caribbean movements and the creation of an expatriate Caribbean identity in Britain and America: `Brit'n' is considered as a West Indian island, created by `colonization in reverse'. Further sections treat the development of a Caribbean aesthetic, and the repossession of cultural roots from Africa and Asia. Balancing an awareness of the regional identity of Caribbean literature with an exploration of its place in world and postcolonial literatures, this study offers a panoramic view that has become one of the most vital of the `new literatures in English'. This accessible overview of Caribbean writing will appeal to the general reader and student alike, and particularly to all who are interested in or studying Caribbean literatures and culture, postcolonial studies, Commonwealth 'new literatures' and contemporary literature and drama.

Author : Anne Walmsley
Publisher : New Beacon
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173000127356

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The Caribbean Artists Movement, 1966-1972 by Anne Walmsley Pdf

Author : Mary Lou Emery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521872133

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Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature by Mary Lou Emery Pdf

This ambitious study offers a comprehensive analysis of the visual in authors from the Anglophone Caribbean. Mary Lou Emery analyses works by George Lamming, C. L. R. James, Derek Walcott, Wilson Harris, Jamaica Kincaid and David Dabydeen. This study is an original and important contribution to both transatlantic and postcolonial studies.

Author : Anne Walmsley
Publisher : New Beacon
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173000127356

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The Caribbean Artists Movement, 1966-1972 by Anne Walmsley Pdf

Author : Philip W. Scher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405105668

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Perspectives on the Caribbean by Philip W. Scher Pdf

perspectives on The Caribbean perspectives on The Caribbean “Genuflecting to no tried metaphors, this is a refreshing collection of cross-disciplinary voices that compel new ways of seeing and thinking about the still undiscovered Caribbean.” Patricia Mohammed, University of the west Indies, St Augustine Presenting a broad understanding of the complex region of the Caribbean, Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation provides a variety of viewpoints on the rich spectrum of Caribbean culture. Essays, carefully chosen from a vast body of existing literature, expose readers to a variety of approaches, voices and topics that have emerged in Caribbean studies. Readings are interdisciplinary in nature and integrate themes from history, folklore, sociology, anthropology and political economy. Both contemporary viewpoints and classic readings reveal how the Caribbean has led scholars to new ways of exploring cultural hybridity in contemporary society. Each section includes brief introductions to put the readings in context with the connections between modern Caribbean culture and its historical roots, and also includes suggested readings for more in-depth study. Perspectives on the Caribbean offers revealing insights into one of the most diverse and complex regions in the Americas.

Author : German Arciniegas
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1022230859

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Caribbean by German Arciniegas Pdf

Originally published in 1946, this book is a seminal work of Caribbean history and culture. The author explores the social and political history of the Caribbean islands, from the pre-colonial era to the present day. Arciniegas also provides detailed descriptions of the natural beauty of the region, as well as its literature and art. The book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Caribbean studies, as well as anyone interested in the complex and fascinating history and culture of the Caribbean islands. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : A. James Arnold
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027297778

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A History of Literature in the Caribbean by A. James Arnold Pdf

Cross-Cultural Studies is the culminating effort of a distinguished team of international scholars who have worked since the mid-1980s to create the most complete analysis of Caribbean literature ever undertaken. Conceived as a major contribution to postcolonial studies, cultural studies, cultural anthropology, and regional studies of the Caribbean and the Americas, Cross-Cultural Studies illuminates the interrelations between and among Europe, the Caribbean islands, Africa, and the American continents from the late fifteenth century to the present. Scholars from five continents bring to bear on the most salient issues of Caribbean literature theoretical and critical positions that are currently in the forefront of discussion in literature, the arts, and public policy. Among the major issues treated at length in Cross-Cultural Studies are: The history and construction of racial inequality in Caribbean colonization; The origins and formation of literatures in various Creoles; The gendered literary representation of the Caribbean region; The political and ideological appropriation of Caribbean history in creating the idea of national culture in North and South America, Europe, and Africa; The role of the Caribbean in contemporary theories of Modernism and the Postmodern; The decentering of such canonical authors as Shakespeare; The vexed but inevitable connectedness of Caribbean literature with both its former colonial metropoles and its geographical neighbors. Contributions to Cross-Cultural Studies give a concrete cultural and historical analysis of such contemporary critical terms as hybridity, transculturation, and the carnivalesque, which have so often been taken out of context and employed in narrowly ideological contexts. Two important theories of the simultaneous unity and diversity of Caribbean literature and culture, propounded by Antonio Benítez-Rojo and +douard Glissant, receive extended treatment that places them strategically in the debate over multiculturalism in postcolonial societies and in the context of chaos theory. A contribution by Benítez-Rojo permits the reader to test the theory through his critical practice. Divided into nine thematic and methodological sections followed by a complete index to the names and dates of authors and significant historical figures discussed, Cross-Cultural Studies will be an indispensable resource for every library and a necessary handbook for scholars, teachers, and advanced students of the Caribbean region.

Author : Deborah Cullen,Elvis Fuentes,Elvis Fuentes Rodríguez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300178549

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Caribbean by Deborah Cullen,Elvis Fuentes,Elvis Fuentes Rodríguez Pdf

Unprecedented in scope, this book examines the modern history of the Caribbean through its artistic culture. Acknowledging the individuality of various islands, the richness of the coastal regions, and the reach of the Diaspora, Caribbean looks at the vital visual and cultural links that exist among these diverse constituencies. The authors examine how the Caribbean has been imagined and pictures, and the role of art in the development of national identity.

Author : Kathleen M. Balutansky,Marie-Agnes Sourieau
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781947372016

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Caribbean Creolization by Kathleen M. Balutansky,Marie-Agnes Sourieau Pdf

The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.

Author : P. Mohammed
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230104495

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Imaging the Caribbean by P. Mohammed Pdf

This ground-breaking study of the Caribbean's iconography traces the history of visual representations of the region,as perceived by outsider and insider alike, over the last five hundred years. It circles the Caribbean while focusing on Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Barbados, tracing the parameters drawn on each society by the colonial encounter and drawing from the methodologies and material of history, literature, art, gender, and cultural studies.

Author : Klaus Stierstorfer
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Caribbean literature (English)
ISBN : 3825353583

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Reading the Caribbean by Klaus Stierstorfer Pdf

Within the profile of anglistik & englischunterricht, this volume on Caribbean literature and culture offers discussions and analyses of those issues and approaches which have emerged as particularly important or, indeed, contentious in literary and cultural scholarship in the field. The Caribbean is presented as not only an eminently rich and complex area of study and research, but also as particularly accessible in educational contexts. Immediately recognizable to students in some of its stereotypical tourist images and because of the global appeal of its cultural products in music and life styles, the Caribbean will draw readers of this volume into entering further into the fascinating, multifaceted experience of its literature, art works and immensely productive, varied and lively world of culture in general. Contributions by scholars experienced in research and teaching the Caribbean range from essays on major genres and themes in Caribbean writing to discussions of language, history, theatre, music, as well as issues of translation, gender and the African rootedness of important aspects of Caribbean culture, this giving a tour d'horizon and stimulating further study and research in students and teachers alike.

Author : Silvio Torres-Saillant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521551250

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Caribbean Poetics by Silvio Torres-Saillant Pdf

A study of the literatures written in European languages in the West Indies with particular attention to Pedro Mir (Dominican Republic), Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados) and Rene Depestre (Haiti).

Author : Michael A. Bucknor,Alison Donnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 883 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136821738

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The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature by Michael A. Bucknor,Alison Donnell Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work. The volume is divided into six sections that consider: the foremost figures of the Anglophone Caribbean literary tradition and a history of literary critical debate textual turning points, identifying key moments in both literary and critical history and bringing lesser known works into context fresh perspectives on enduring and contentious critical issues including the canon, nation, race, gender, popular culture and migration new directions for literary criticism and theory, such as eco-criticism, psychoanalysis and queer studies the material dissemination of Anglophone Caribbean literature and generic interfaces with film and visual art This volume is an essential text that brings together sixty-nine entries from scholars across three generations of Caribbean literary studies, ranging from foundational critical voices to emergent scholars in the field. The volume's reach of subject and clarity of writing provide an excellent resource and springboard to further research for those working in literature and cultural studies, postcolonial and diaspora studies as well as Caribbean studies, history and geography.