Author: Ronald Cummings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108474009
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 traces the region's contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and drama into emerging areas of creative non-fiction, memoir and speculative fiction with a particular attention on challenging the narrow canon of Anglophone male writers. It maps shifts and continuities between late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Caribbean literature in terms of innovations in literary form and style, the changing role and place of the writer, and shifts in our understandings of what constitutes the political terrain of the literary and its sites of struggle. Whilst reaching across language divides and multiple diasporas, it shows how contemporary Caribbean Literature has focused its attentions on social complexity and ongoing marginalizations in its continued preoccupations with identity, belonging and freedoms.
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020: Volume 3
Author: Ronald Cummings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108474009
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 traces the region's contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and drama into emerging areas of creative non-fiction, memoir and speculative fiction with a particular attention on challenging the narrow canon of Anglophone male writers. It maps shifts and continuities between late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Caribbean literature in terms of innovations in literary form and style, the changing role and place of the writer, and shifts in our understandings of what constitutes the political terrain of the literary and its sites of struggle. Whilst reaching across language divides and multiple diasporas, it shows how contemporary Caribbean Literature has focused its attentions on social complexity and ongoing marginalizations in its continued preoccupations with identity, belonging and freedoms.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108474009
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 traces the region's contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and drama into emerging areas of creative non-fiction, memoir and speculative fiction with a particular attention on challenging the narrow canon of Anglophone male writers. It maps shifts and continuities between late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Caribbean literature in terms of innovations in literary form and style, the changing role and place of the writer, and shifts in our understandings of what constitutes the political terrain of the literary and its sites of struggle. Whilst reaching across language divides and multiple diasporas, it shows how contemporary Caribbean Literature has focused its attentions on social complexity and ongoing marginalizations in its continued preoccupations with identity, belonging and freedoms.
Caribbean Literature in Transition
Author: Alison Donnell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caribbean literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caribbean literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Concise History of the Caribbean
Author: B. W. Higman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480985
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
A compelling account of Caribbean history from colonization to slavery and revolution, through the tumult of hurricanes and climate change.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480985
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
A compelling account of Caribbean history from colonization to slavery and revolution, through the tumult of hurricanes and climate change.
English Literature in Context
Author: Paul Poplawski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107141672
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 757
Book Description
From Anglo-Saxon runes to postcolonial rap, this undergraduate textbook covers the social and historical contexts of the whole of the English literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107141672
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 757
Book Description
From Anglo-Saxon runes to postcolonial rap, this undergraduate textbook covers the social and historical contexts of the whole of the English literature.
Washed by the Gulf Stream
Author: Maria McGarrity
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780874130287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This is an historically comparative postcolonial study asserting the dialogic relation between Irish and Caribbean narrative form. The book focuses on the demise of empire and the role of geography in creating an 'island imaginary' for writers from James Joyce to Jamaica Kincaid.
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780874130287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This is an historically comparative postcolonial study asserting the dialogic relation between Irish and Caribbean narrative form. The book focuses on the demise of empire and the role of geography in creating an 'island imaginary' for writers from James Joyce to Jamaica Kincaid.
The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
Author: George Hutchinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521673686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This 2007 Companion is a comprehensive guide to the key authors and works of the African American literary movement.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521673686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This 2007 Companion is a comprehensive guide to the key authors and works of the African American literary movement.
Reversing Sail
Author: Michael A. Gomez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110849871X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110849871X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience.
The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South
Author: Demetrius L. Eudell
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This comparative study examines the emancipation process in the British Caribbean, particularly Jamaica, during the 1830s and in the United States, particularly South Carolina, during the 1860s. Analyzing the intellectual and ideological foundations of postslavery Anglo-America, Demetrius Eudell explores how former slaves, former slaveholders, and their societies' central governments understood and discussed slavery, emancipation, and the transition between the two. Eudell investigates the public policies--which addressed issues of labor control, access to land, and the general social behaviors of former slaves--used to execute emancipation. In both regions, government-appointed officials (special magistrates in Jamaica and agents of the Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina) were crucial in implementing these policies. While many former slaves were fighting for the right to be paid for their labor and to own land, many officials came to view their role as part of a new civilizing mission whose goal was to eradicate the psychic damage supposedly caused by slavery. Eudell concludes by examining the 1865 Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica and the retreat from Reconstruction in South Carolina, part of the larger movement of Redemption that occurred in 1877. Both of these occurrences represented the incomplete victory of emancipation, Eudell argues, and should provoke scholarly questions regarding the persistent thesis of U.S. exceptionalism.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This comparative study examines the emancipation process in the British Caribbean, particularly Jamaica, during the 1830s and in the United States, particularly South Carolina, during the 1860s. Analyzing the intellectual and ideological foundations of postslavery Anglo-America, Demetrius Eudell explores how former slaves, former slaveholders, and their societies' central governments understood and discussed slavery, emancipation, and the transition between the two. Eudell investigates the public policies--which addressed issues of labor control, access to land, and the general social behaviors of former slaves--used to execute emancipation. In both regions, government-appointed officials (special magistrates in Jamaica and agents of the Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina) were crucial in implementing these policies. While many former slaves were fighting for the right to be paid for their labor and to own land, many officials came to view their role as part of a new civilizing mission whose goal was to eradicate the psychic damage supposedly caused by slavery. Eudell concludes by examining the 1865 Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica and the retreat from Reconstruction in South Carolina, part of the larger movement of Redemption that occurred in 1877. Both of these occurrences represented the incomplete victory of emancipation, Eudell argues, and should provoke scholarly questions regarding the persistent thesis of U.S. exceptionalism.
The Colonial Caribbean in Transition
Author: Bridget Brereton
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 9780813016962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This text is an examination of the social evolution of the colonial Caribbean, from the formal end of slavery to the middle of the 20th century. It focuses on social and ethnic groups, classes, gender interrelations, and the development of cultural and intellectual traditions.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 9780813016962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This text is an examination of the social evolution of the colonial Caribbean, from the formal end of slavery to the middle of the 20th century. It focuses on social and ethnic groups, classes, gender interrelations, and the development of cultural and intellectual traditions.
Central America in the New Millennium
Author: Jennifer L. Burrell
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857457527
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Most non-Central Americans think of the narrow neck between Mexico and Colombia in terms of dramatic past revolutions and lauded peace agreements, or sensational problems of gang violence and natural disasters. In this volume, the contributors examine regional circumstances within frames of democratization and neoliberalism, as they shape lived experiences of transition. The authors--anthropologists and social scientists from the United States, Europe, and Central America--argue that the process of regions and nations "disappearing" (being erased from geopolitical notice) is integral to upholding a new, post-Cold War world order--and that a new framework for examining political processes must be accessible, socially collaborative, and in dialogue with the lived processes of suffering and struggle engaged by people in Central America and the world in the name of democracy.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857457527
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Most non-Central Americans think of the narrow neck between Mexico and Colombia in terms of dramatic past revolutions and lauded peace agreements, or sensational problems of gang violence and natural disasters. In this volume, the contributors examine regional circumstances within frames of democratization and neoliberalism, as they shape lived experiences of transition. The authors--anthropologists and social scientists from the United States, Europe, and Central America--argue that the process of regions and nations "disappearing" (being erased from geopolitical notice) is integral to upholding a new, post-Cold War world order--and that a new framework for examining political processes must be accessible, socially collaborative, and in dialogue with the lived processes of suffering and struggle engaged by people in Central America and the world in the name of democracy.