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Sugar'S Secrets - Race And The Erotics Of Cuban Nationalism

by Vera M. Kutzinski

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 The author focuses on images of the ""mulata"" in 19th- and 20th-century Cuban poetry, fiction and visual arts. These images, she argues, are at the heart of Cuba's peculiar form of multiculturalism. She describes the cross-cultural synthesis called ""mestizaje"" as a distinctly masculine concept.
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Break And Flow - Hip Hop Poetics In The Americas

by Charlie D. Hankin

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 Draws on years of ethnographic fieldwork and collaboration, as well as an archive of hundreds of songs by more than sixty hip hop artists. Charlie Hankin illuminates how new media is used to produce and distribute knowledge in the Global South, refining our understanding of poetry and popular music at the turn of the millennium.
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Fictions Of Whiteness - Imagining The Planter Caste In The French Caribbean Novel

by Maeve Mccusker

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 The first book-length study to engage with the literary construction of whiteness in the francophone Caribbean, Fictions of Whiteness examines the neglected beke figure in the longer history of Antillean literature and culture.
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Fellow Travelers - How Road Stories Shaped The Idea Of The Americas

by John Ochoa

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 Examining three turning points that shaped exceptionalism in both Americas - the late colonial and early Republican period, expansion into the frontier, and the Cold War - John Ochoa pursues literary travellers across landscapes and centuries.
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The Sacred Act Of Reading - Spirituality, Performance, And Power In Afro-Diasporic Literature

by Anne Margaret Castro

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 From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spiritual practices. The Sacred Act of Reading examines religion and sociopolitical power in modern and contemporary texts of a variety of genres from the black Americas.
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Female Genius - Eliza Harriot And George Washington At The Dawn Of The Constitution

by Mary Sarah Bilder

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 In this provocative new biography, Mary Sarah Bilder looks to the 1780s - the Age of the Constitution - to investigate the rise of a radical new idea in the English-speaking world: female genius. Bilder finds the perfect exemplar of this phenomenon in English-born Eliza Harriot Barons Oâ€™Connor.
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Kindred Spirits - Chinua Achebe And Toni Morrison

by Christopher N. Okonkwo

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 Offers the first comparative study of Toni Morrison and Chinua Achebe. Surveying both writersâ€™ oeuvres, Christopher Okonkwo examines significant relations between Achebeâ€™s and Morrisonâ€™s personal backgrounds, career histories, artistic visions, and life philosophies, finding in them striking parallels.
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Fellow Travelers - How Road Stories Shaped The Idea Of The Americas

by John Ochoa

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 Examining three turning points that shaped exceptionalism in both Americas - the late colonial and early Republican period, expansion into the frontier, and the Cold War - John Ochoa pursues literary travellers across landscapes and centuries.
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Caribbean Jewish Crossings - Literary History And Creative Practice

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 The first essay collection to consider the Caribbean's relationship to Jewishness through a literary lens. Although Caribbean novelists and poets regularly incorporate Jewish motifs in their work, scholars have neglected this strain in studies of Caribbean literature.
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Nationalizing France'S Army - Foreign, Black, And Jewish Troops In The French Military, 1715â€“1831

by Christopher J. Tozzi

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 By telling the story of Franceâ€™s noncitizen soldiers - who included not only men born abroad but also Jews and blacks whose citizenship rights were subject to contestation - Christopher Tozzi sheds new light on the roots of revolutionary Franceâ€™s inability to integrate its national community despite the inclusionary promise of French republicanism.
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Border Fictions - Globalization, Empire, And Writing At The Boundaries Of The United States

by Claudia Sadowski-Smith

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 Border Fictions offers the first comparative analysis of multiethnic and transnational cultural representations about the United States' borders with Mexico and Canada. Blending textual analysis with theories of globalization and empire, Claudia Sadowski-Smith forges a new model of inter-American studies.
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Acts Of Narrative Resistance - Women'S Autobiographical Writings In The Americas

by Laura J. Beard

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 An exploration of women's autobiographical writings in the Americas that focuses on three specific genres: testimonio, metafiction, and the family saga as the story of a nation. It addresses issues in the fields of autobiography, comparative literature, and women's studies, and in inter-American, Latin American, and Native American studies.
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Caribbean Perspectives On Modernity

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Caribbean Perspectives On Modernity - Returning Medusa''S Gaze

by Maria Cristina Fumagalli

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 Taking up the challenge of redefining modernity from a Caribbean perspective instead of assuming that the North Atlantic view of modernity is universal, this book shows how the Caribbean's contributions to the modern world not only provide an accurate account of the past but also have the potential to change the way in which we imagine the future.
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Cuba And The Fall - Christian Text And Queer Narrative In The Fiction Of José Lezama Lima And Reinaldo Arenas

by Eduardo Gonzalez

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 <p>The literature of Cuba, argues Eduardo González in this new book, takes on quite different features depending on whether one is looking at it from "the inside" or from "the outside," a view that in turn is shaped by official political culture and the authors it sanctions or by those authors and artists who exist outside state policies and cultural politics. González approaches this issue by way of two twentieth-century writers who are central to the canon of gay homoerotic expression and sensibility in Cuban culture: José Lezama Lima (1910–1976) and Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990). Drawing on the plots and characters in their works, González develops both a story line and a moral tale, revolving around the Christian belief in the fall from grace and the possibility of redemption, that bring the writers into a unique and revealing interaction with one another. <p><br/> The work of Lezama Lima and Arenas is compared with that of fellow Cuban author Virgilio Piñera (1912–1979) and, in a wider context, with the non-Cuban writers John Milton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, John Ruskin, and James Joyce to show how their themes get replicated in González’s selected Cuban fiction. Also woven into this interaction are two contemporary films—The Devil’s Backbone (2004) and Pan’s Labyrinth (2007)—whose moral and political themes enhance the ethical values and conflicts of the literary texts. Referring to this eclectic gathering of texts, González charts a cultural course in which Cuba moves beyond the Caribbean and into a latitude uncharted by common words, beyond the tyranny of place.</p>
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Orphan Narratives - The Postplantation Literature Of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, And Saint-John Perse

by Valerie Loichot

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 Investigates the fiction and poetry of four writers who emerged from the postslavery plantation world of the Americas - William Faulkner, Edouard Glissant, Toni Morrison, and Saint-John Perse - to show how these descendants from slaves and from slaveholders wrote both in relation and in resistance to the violence of plantation slavery.
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The Cross-Dressed Caribbean - Writing, Politics, Sexualities

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The Illusory Boundary - Environment And Technology In History

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The Literatures Of Spanish America And Brazil Volume 2 - The Twentieth Century

by Earl E. Fitz

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The Literatures Of Spanish America And Brazil Volume 2 - The Twentieth Century

by Earl E. Fitz

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Mourning El Dorado - Literature And Extractivism In The Contemporary American Tropics

by Charlotte Rogers

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 Looks at how fiction from the American tropics written since 1950 engages with the promise of El Dorado in the age of the Anthropocene. Just as the golden kingdom was never found, natural resource extraction has not produced wealth and happiness for the peoples of the tropics.
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The Other America - Caribbean Literature In A New World Context

by J.Michael Dash

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 This work explores two centuries of Caribbean literature from a comparative perspective. The author examines English, French and Spanish-speaking writers and aesthetic movements of the Caribbean, arguing that previous studies have ignored the modern, global and historical nature of the region.
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Difficult Reading - Frustration And Form In Anglophone Caribbean Fiction

by Jason R. Marley

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 Offers a new approach to formal experimentation in Caribbean literature. In this insightful study, Jason Marley demonstrates how the aggressive, antagonistic elements common to the mid-twentieth-century Caribbean novel foster emotional responses that spark new forms of communal resistance against colonial power.
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Difficult Reading - Frustration And Form In Anglophone Caribbean Fiction

by Jason R. Marley

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 Offers a new approach to formal experimentation in Caribbean literature. In this insightful study, Jason Marley demonstrates how the aggressive, antagonistic elements common to the mid-twentieth-century Caribbean novel foster emotional responses that spark new forms of communal resistance against colonial power.
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Mapping The Stars - Celebrity, Metonymy, And The Networked Politics Of Identity

by Claire Sisco King

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