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Patrick Chamoiseau - A Critical Introduction

by Wendy Knepper

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 Examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. An important addition to Caribbean literary studies, Patrick Chamoiseau is an indispensable work for scholars interested in francophone, Caribbean, and world literatures as well as cultural studies.
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Caribbean Novel Since 1945 - Cultural Practice, Form, And The Nation-State

by Michael Niblett

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 Offers a comparative analysis of fiction from across the pan-Caribbean. Engaging with the historical and political impact of capitalist imperialism, decolonization, class struggle, ethnic conflict, and gender relations, it considers the ways in which Caribbean authors have sought to rethink and re-narrate the traumatic past and often problematicâ€™postcolonial' present of the region's peoples.
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Artistry Of Afro-Cuban Bata Drumming - Aesthetics, Transmission, Bonding, And Creativity

by Kenneth Schweitzer

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 By imitating aspects of speech and song, and by metaphorically referencing salient attributes of the deities, bata drummers facilitate the communal praising of orisha in a music ritual known as a toque de santo. Kenneth Schweitzer blends musical transcription, musical analysis, interviews, and ethnographic descriptions to highlight the complex variables at work during a live Lucumi performance.
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Sides Of The Sea - Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora

by Johanna X. K. Garvey

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 Examines the works of contemporary writers from eight Caribbean countries. Authors from Anglophone, Francophone, and Spanish-speaking countries illustrate experiences across the African Diaspora, including enslavement, colonialism, revolt, marronnage, and decolonization.
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Sides Of The Sea - Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora

by Johanna X. K. Garvey

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 Examines the works of contemporary writers from eight Caribbean countries. Authors from Anglophone, Francophone, and Spanish-speaking countries illustrate experiences across the African Diaspora, including enslavement, colonialism, revolt, marronnage, and decolonization.
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Caribbean Visionary - A. R. F. Webber And The Making Of The Guyanese Nation

by Selwyn R. Cudjoe

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 Traces the life of Albert Raymond Forbes Webber (1880-1932), a distinguished Caribbean scholar, statesman, legislator, and novelist. Using Webber as a lens, the book outlines the Guyanese struggle for justice and equality in an age of colonialism, imperialism, and indentureship.
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The Sides Of The Sea - Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora

by Johanna X. K. Garvey

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 Examines the works of contemporary writers from eight Caribbean countries. Authors from Anglophone, Francophone, and Spanish-speaking countries illustrate experiences across the African Diaspora, including enslavement, colonialism, revolt, marronnage, and decolonization.
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Civic Buildings After The Spanish-American War

by Maria Eugenia Achurra G.

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 Following the 1898 Spanish-American War, the United States constructed federal buildings in its newly acquired territories, including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Maria Eugenia Achurra G. examines this architecture and urban design as a backdrop for US exceptionalism and expansionism.
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Civic Buildings After The Spanish-American War

by Maria Eugenia Achurra G.

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 Following the 1898 Spanish-American War, the United States constructed federal buildings in its newly acquired territories, including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Maria Eugenia Achurra G. examines this architecture and urban design as a backdrop for US exceptionalism and expansionism.
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Sounding Our Way Home - Japanese American Musicking And The Politics Of Identity

by Susan Miyo Asai

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 A product of twenty-five years of archival and primary research, this volume narrates the efforts of three generations of Japanese Americans to reach â€˜homeâ€™ through musicking. Emphasizing the notion of national identity and belonging, the book provokes a discussion about the challenges of nation-building in a democratic society.
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Civic Buildings After The Spanish-American War

by Maria Eugenia Achurra G.

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 Following the 1898 Spanish-American War, the United States constructed federal buildings in its newly acquired territories, including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Maria Eugenia Achurra G. examines this architecture and urban design as a backdrop for US exceptionalism and expansionism.
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Matria Redux - Caribbean Women Novelize The Past

by Tegan Zimmerman

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 Contends that there is a need for reading Caribbean womenâ€™s texts relationally. This comprehensive study argues that the writerâ€™s turn to maternal histories constitutes the definitive feature of this transcultural and transnational genre.
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Matria Redux - Caribbean Women Novelize The Past

by Tegan Zimmerman

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 Contends that there is a need for reading Caribbean womenâ€™s texts relationally. This comprehensive study argues that the writerâ€™s turn to maternal histories constitutes the definitive feature of this transcultural and transnational genre.
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Decolonization In St. Lucia - Politics And Global Neoliberalism, 1945-2010

by Tennyson S. D. Joseph

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 Tennyson S.D. Joseph builds upon current research on the anticolonial and nationalist experience in the Caribbean. He explores the impact of global transformation upon the independent experience of St. Lucia and argues that the island's formal decolonization roughly coincided with the period of the rise of global neoliberalism hegemony.
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Reproducing Domination - On The Caribbean Postcolonial State

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 Presents thirteen key essays on the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen, the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone Caribbean studies. Given the recent global resurgence of interest in elite ownership patterns and their relationship to power and governance, Hintzenâ€™s work assumes even more resonance beyond the shores of the Caribbean.
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Reproducing Domination - On The Caribbean Postcolonial State

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 Presents thirteen key essays on the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen, the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone Caribbean studies. Given the recent global resurgence of interest in elite ownership patterns and their relationship to power and governance, Hintzenâ€™s work assumes even more resonance beyond the shores of the Caribbean.
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Queen Of The Virgins - Pageantry And Black Womanhood In The Caribbean

by M. Cynthia Oliver

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 Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the US Virgin Islands, capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests provide women opportunities to demonstrate talent, style, the values of black womanhood, and the territory's social mores. This title offers a comprehensive look at the centuries-old tradition of these expressions in the Virgin Islands.
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Queen Of The Virgins - Pageantry And Black Womanhood In The Caribbean

by M. Cynthia Oliver

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 Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the US Virgin Islands, capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests provide women opportunities to demonstrate talent, style, the values of black womanhood, and the territory's social mores. This title offers a comprehensive look at the centuries-old tradition of these expressions in the Virgin Islands.
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Unexceptional Case Of Haiti - Race And Class Privilege In Postcolonial Bourgeois Society

by Philippe-Richard Marius

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 Recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the twinned significance of colour/race and class in the reproduction of privilege and inequality in contemporary Haiti. Through this ethnography, class emerges as the principal site of social organization among Haitians.
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The Unexceptional Case Of Haiti - Race And Class Privilege In Postcolonial Bourgeois Society

by Philippe-Richard Marius

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 Recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the twinned significance of colour/race and class in the reproduction of privilege and inequality in contemporary Haiti. Through this ethnography, class emerges as the principal site of social organization among Haitians.
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Policing Intimacy - Law, Sexuality, And The Color Line In Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature

by Jenna Grace Sciuto

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 Analyses literary depictions of sexual policing of the colour line across multiple spaces with diverse colonial histories: Mississippi through William Faulkner's work, Louisiana through Ernest Gaines's novels, Haiti through Marie Chauvet and Edwidge Danticat, and the Dominican Republic through work by Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz, and Nelly Rosario.
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Taking Flight - Caribbean Women Writing From Abroad

by Jennifer Donahue

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 Examines the immigrant experience in contemporary Caribbean women's writing and considers the effects of restrictive social mores. The works explored in this volume draw attention to the racialization and sexualization of black women's bodies and continue the legacy of narrating black women's long-standing contestation of systems of oppression.
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Caribbean Masala - Indian Identity In Guyana And Trinidad

by Dave Ramsaran e Linden F. Lewis

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 In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the import of exploited South Asian indentured workers in the Caribbean under extreme oppression. Dave Ramsaran and Linden Lewis concentrate on the Indian descendants' processes of assimilating and adapting while trying to hold on to that which marks a group of people as distinct.
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Connecting Histories - Francophone Caribbean Writers Interrogating Their Past

by Bonnie Thomas

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 The contemporary authors from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti collected in this volume intertwine their personal memories with reflections on the histories of their homelands and on the countries they adopt through choice or necessity. In doing so, they reveal a multitude of connections that illuminate distinct Francophone Caribbean experiences.
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