Index number: AMR 25/007/2012, 18 p., Criticism of the government is not tolerated in Cuba, and it is routinely punished with arbitrary and short-term detentions, intimidation, harassment, and politically motivated criminal prosecutions. Amnesty International makes recommendations to the Cuban government aimed at ensuring greater respect for the rights to freedom of expression, association, assembly, and movement.
Ake,David A., (Ed.And Intro.), Garrett,Charles, (Ed.And Intro.), and Goldmark,Daniel, (Ed.And Intro.)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
01/01; 2012
Published:
Berkeley: University of California Press
Location:
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Notes:
The following contributions are cited separately in RILM: David AKE, Crossing the street: Rethinking jazz education (RILM ref]2012-05841/ref]); Tamar BARZEL, The praxis of composition-improvisation and the poetics of creative kinship (RILM ref]2012-05838/ref]); Jessica BISSETT PEREA, Voices from the jazz wilderness: Locating Pacific Northwest vocal ensembles within jazz education (RILM ref]2012-05840/ref]); Charles GARRETT, The humor of jazz (RILM ref]2012-05833/ref]); Daniel GOLDMARK, 'Slightly left of center': Atlantic Records and the problems of genre (RILM ref]2012-05837/ref]); John HOWLAND, Jazz with strings: Between jazz and the great American songbook (RILM ref]2012-05836/ref]); Loren Y. KAJIKAWA, The sound of struggle: Black revolutionary nationalism and Asian American jazz (RILM ref]2012-05839/ref]); Eric C. PORTER, Incorporation and distinction in jazz history and jazz historiography (RILM ref]2012-05831/ref]); Ken PROUTY, Creating boundaries in the virtual jazz community (RILM ref]2012-05834/ref]); Sherrie TUCKER, Deconstructing the jazz tradition: The subjectless subject of new jazz studies (RILM ref]2012-05842/ref]); Elijah WALD, Louis Armstrong loves Guy Lombardo (RILM ref]2012-05832/ref]); Christopher J. WASHBURNE, Latin jazz, Afro-Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz, Cubop, Caribbean jazz, jazz Latin, or just...jazz: The politics of locating an intercultural music (RILM ref]2012-05835/ref]).
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Unedited] During the second half of the 20th c., the Caribbean island of Barbados emerged as a key player in the creation and nurturing of Caribbean popular music. And, yet, despite its vital role in the popularization of tuk music, the rise of spouge, and the Barbadian contribution to and transformation of other Carribean music traditions, there is still relatively little sustained critical literature that discusses the various strands of the island’s music culture. This book provides a survey of the development of Barbadian popular music and entertainment culture by focusing on pivotal phenomena, artists, and movements in the evolution of Barbadian popular music and culture. It concentrates on transformations since 1980 and 2000 respectively, each of which marked the ushering in of new opportunities and challenges to the creation and dissemination of Barbadian popular music. It considers the telling roles played by the expanding influence of western popular culture, the Internet, post-dancehall and post-soca aesthetics, cyberculture, digital culture, and the subterranean lure of traditional culture. It includes analyses of selected artists, musical genres, and phenomena, such as Gabby, Rihanna, Jackie Opel, Alison Hinds, Rupee, Red Plastic Bag, Lil’ Rick, spouge, tuk, ringbang, gospel, dub/dancehall, calypso, soca, folk, alternative, hip hop, Crop Over, Jazz Festival, National Independence Festival of Creative Arts, BajanTube, party politics and entertainment, popular bands, music technology, the Internet and new frontiers of cultural expression.
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The following contributions are cited separately in RILM: Kelly M. ASKEW, As Plato duly warned: Music, politics, and social change in Coastal East Africa (RILM ref]2012-18675/ref]); Reinhold BRINKMANN, The distorted sublime: Music and national socialist ideology—A sketch (RILM ref]2012-18663/ref]); George CICCARIELLO-MAHER, Brechtian hip-hop: Didactics and self-production in post-gangsta political mixtapes (RILM ref]2012-18677/ref]); Robin DENSELOW, Born under a bad sign (RILM ref]2012-18669/ref]); Jean DURING, Power, authority and music in the cultures of Inner Asia (RILM ref]2012-18674/ref]); Danielle FOSLER-LUSSIER, Beyond the folk song, or, What was Hungarian socialist realist music? (RILM ref]2012-18666/ref]); Simon FRITH, Rock and the politics of memory (RILM ref]2012-18670/ref]); Marina FROLOVA-WALKER, On Ruslan and Russianness (RILM ref]2012-18659/ref]); Jane F. FULCHER, The composer as intellectual: Ideological inscriptions in French interwar neoclassicism (RILM ref]2012-18662/ref]); Lydia GOEHR, Political music and the politics of music (RILM ref]2012-18678/ref]); Daniel KREISS, Appropriating the master's tools: Sun Ra, the Black Panthers, and black consciousness (1952–1973) (RILM ref]2012-18672/ref]); Nicholas MATHEW, Beethoven's political music, the Handelian sublime, and the aesthetics of prostration (RILM ref]2012-18657/ref]); Nick NESBITT, African music, ideology and utopia (RILM ref]2012-18676/ref]); Charles B. PAUL, Music and ideology: Rameau, Rousseau, and 1789 (RILM ref]2012-18652/ref]); Jolanta T. PEKACZ, Deconstructing a 'national composer': Chopin and Polish exiles in Paris, 1831-49 (RILM ref]2012-18658/ref]); Pamela M. POTTER, What is 'Nazi music'? (RILM ref]2012-18664/ref]); David M. POWERS, The French musical theater: Maintaining control in Caribbean colonies in the eighteenth century (RILM ref]2012-18653/ref]); Mao Yu RUN, Music under Mao, its background and aftermath (RILM ref]2012-18673/ref]); Richard TARUSKIN, Public lies and unspeakable truth: Interpreting Shostakovich's fifth symphony (RILM ref]2012-18665/ref]); Katharine THOMSON, Mozart and freemasonry (RILM ref]2012-18655/ref]); Jess TYRE, Music in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune (RILM ref]2012-18660/ref]); Penny Marie VON ESCHEN, Ike gets Dizzy (RILM ref]2012-18668/ref]); Glenn E. WATKINS, The old lie (RILM ref]2012-18661/ref]).
Unedited] The conference took place 18–24 February, 2008. The following contributions are cited separately in RILM: Kam-Au AMEN, Entertainment and cultural enterprise management (RILM ref]2012-19744/ref]); Peter ASHBOURNE, From mento to ska and reggae to dancehall (RILM ref]2012-19730/ref]); Erna BRODBER, Reggae as black space (RILM ref]2012-19729/ref]); Louis CHUDE-SOKEI, Roots, diaspora and possible Africas (RILM ref]2012-19739/ref]); Brent CLOUGH, Oceanic reggae (RILM ref]2012-19741/ref]); Carolyn COOPER, Reggae studies at the University of the West Indies (RILM ref]2012-19743/ref]); Samuel Furé DAVIS, Reggae in Cuba and the Hispanic Caribbean (RILM ref]2012-19733/ref]); Cheikh Ahmadou DIENG, Reggae griots in Francophone Africa (RILM ref]2012-19738/ref]); Teddy ISIMAT-MIRIN, Reggae in the French Caribbean (RILM ref]2012-19734/ref]); Ellen KOEHLINGS, Pete LILLY, The evolution of reggae in Europe with a focus on Germany (RILM ref]2012-19732/ref]); Amon Saba SAAKANA, The impact of Jamaican music in Britain (RILM ref]2012-19731/ref]); Roger STEFFENS, Reggae music in the bloodstream (RILM ref]2012-19736/ref]); Marvin Dale STERLING, Gender, class and race in Japanese dancehall culture (RILM ref]2012-19740/ref]); Michael E. VEAL, Dub: Electronic music and sound experimentation (RILM ref]2012-19742/ref]); Leonardo VIDIGAL, Reggae music documentaries in Brazil (RILM ref]2012-19735/ref]); Klive WALKER, The journey of reggae in Canada (RILM ref]2012-19737/ref]).
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As contemporary tambú music and dance evolved on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, it intertwined sacred and secular, private and public cultural practices, and many traditions from Africa and the New World. As she explores the formal contours of tambú, the author discovers its variegated history and uncovers its multiple and even contradictory origins. She recounts the personal stories and experiences of Afro-Curaçaoans as they perform tambú–some who complain of its violence and low-class attraction and others who champion tambú as a powerful tool of collective memory as well as a way to imagine the future.
Moore,Robin Dale, (Ed.And Intro.) and Clark,Walter Aaron, (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
01/01; 2012
Published:
New York: W.W. Norton
Location:
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Notes:
The following contributions are cited separately in RILM: Walter Aaron CLARK, Latin American impact on contemporary classical music (RILM ref]2012-19875/ref]); John KOEGEL, Mexico (RILM ref]2012-19870/ref]); Cristina MAGALDI, Brazil (RILM ref]2012-19873/ref]); Robin Dale MOORE, Cuba and the Hispanic Caribbean (RILM ref]2012-19872/ref]); Daniel PARTY, Twenty-first century Latin American and Latino popular music (RILM ref]2012-19876/ref]); Jonathan RITTER, Peru and the Andes (RILM ref]2012-19865/ref]); Deborah SCHWARTZ-KATES, Argentina and the Rioplatense Region (RILM ref]2012-19874/ref]); Thomas M. SCRUGGS, Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela (RILM ref]2012-19871/ref]); Susan THOMAS, Music, conquest, and colonialism (RILM ref]2012-19869/ref]).
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303 p, A book containing over 500 rare photographs which give a visual picture of a Caribbean society in the process of change in the years after Emancipation.
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309 p, Using the stories of ordinary people, Block illustrates how engaging with the powerful rhetoric and rituals of Christianity was central to survival. Isobel Criolla was a runaway slave in Cartagena who successfully lobbied the Spanish governor not to return her to an abusive mistress. Nicolas Burundel was a French Calvinist who served as henchman to the Spanish governor of Jamaica before his arrest by the Inquisition for heresy. Henry Whistler was an English sailor sent to the Caribbean under Oliver Cromwell's plan for holy war against Catholic Spain. Yaff and Nell were slaves who served a Quaker plantation owner, Lewis Morris, in Barbados. Seen from their on-the-ground perspective, the development of modern capitalism, race, and Christianity emerges as a story of negotiation, contingency, humanity, and the quest for community.
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710 p, Examines the economic history of the Caribbean in the two hundred years since the Napoleonic Wars and is the first analysis to span the whole region. Its findings challenge many long-standing assumptions about the region, and its in-depth case studies shed new light on the history of three countries in particular, namely Belize, Cuba, and Haiti"
Cullen,Deborah (Author) and Fuentes Rodríguez,Elvis (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
New York; New Haven, Conn.: El Museo del Barrio; In association with Yale University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Caribbean: crossroads of the world,' organized by El Museo del Barrio in collaboration with Queens Museum of Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem. The exhibition is presented at El Museo del Barrio from June 12, 2012-January 6, 2013; at Queens Museum of Art from June 17, 2012-January 6, 2013; and at The Studio Museum in Harlem from June 14, 2012-October 21, 2012.", 491 p, An authoritative examination of the modern history of the Caribbean through its artistic culture. Featuring 500 color illustrations of artworks from the late 18th through the 21st century, the book explores modern and contemporary art, ranging from the Haitian revolution to the present. Acknowledging both the individuality of each island, 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.
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368 p, Tracing the islands’ path from slavery to revolution and independence, A Traveller’s History of the Caribbean looks at the history of nations as different as Cuba, Jamaica and Haiti, explaining their diversity and their common experiences. It reveals a region in which a tumultuous past has created a culturally vibrant and intriguing present.
Fuentes Rodríguez,Elvis (Author), Museo del Barrio (New York, N.Y.), Queens Museum of Art (Queens, NY), and Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
New York: El Museo del Barrio; New Haven, CT: in association with Yale University Press
Location:
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Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Caribbean: crossroads of the world," organized by El Museo del Barrio in collaboration with Queens Museum of Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
The exhibition is presented at El Museo del Barrio from June 12, 2012-January 6, 2013; at Queens Museum of Art from June 17, 2012-January 6, 2013; and at The Studio Museum in Harlem from June 14, 2012-October 21, 2012.", 31 p, Includes essay "Crossroads, crossings, and the cross" by Elvis Fuentes.
Wymondham: Socialist History Society with Bogle L'Overture Press
Location:
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90 p., Describes the development of labor relations, from slave labor to capitalist free labor through to modern trade unions and political independence.
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen
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352 p., In the first half of the 19th century, the safeguarding of the health of the enslaved workers became a central concern for plantation owners and colonial administrators in the Danish West Indies. This title explores the health conditions of the enslaved workers and the health policies initiated by planters and the colonial government.
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279 p., Offering a rare pan-Caribbean perspective on a region that has moved from the very center of the western world to its periphery, The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism journeys through five centuries of economic and social development, emphasizing such topics as the slave-run plantation economy, the changes in political control over the centuries, the impact of the United States, and the effects of Castro's Cuban revolution on the area.
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279 p, Offering a rare pan-Caribbean perspective on a region that has moved from the very center of the western world to its periphery, The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism journeys through five centuries of economic and social development, emphasizing such topics as the slave-run plantation economy, the changes in political control over the centuries, the impact of the United States, and the effects of Castro's Cuban revolution on the area.
Lawrence,O'Neil (Author), Archer,Melanie (Editor), and Brown,Mariel (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
Laventille, Trinidad and Tobago: Robert & Christopher Publishers
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Includes essay by Lawrence O'Neil., 222 p., Examines the ways in which contemporary art photography has evolved within the English-speaking Caribbean, rising beyond depictions of idyllic scenes to tackle more complex social, racial, political and gender issues. Within the past few years, regional artists have provided an increasingly searching image of the Caribbean and the people who inhabit it.
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366 p, Contents: Original peoples -- The coming of Columbus -- The Northern European challenge to Spain -- The Africans : long night of enslavement -- The enslaved and the manumitted : Human strivings in savage surroundings -- The big fight back : Resistance, marronage, proto-states -- The big fight back : Suriname and Jamaica -- The big fight back : from rebellion to Haitian revolution -- Emancipation : help from Europe, final push from the enslaved -- After emancipation : obstacles and progress -- Immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries -- The Caribbean and Africa through the early 20th century -- The United States and the Caribbean to World War II -- Twentieth century to World War II : turbulent times -- World War II to century's end -- Prognosis.
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197 p., Focusing on slave revolts that took place in Barbados in 1816, in Demerara in 1823, and in Jamaica in 1831--32, identifies four key aspects in British abolitionist propaganda regarding Caribbean slavery: the denial that antislavery activism prompted slave revolts, the attempt to understand and recount slave uprisings from the slaves' perspectives, the portrayal of slave rebels as victims of armed suppressors and as agents of the antislavery movement, and the presentation of revolts as a rationale against the continuance of slavery.
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312 p., Analyzes the conflicts between the British government and Caribbean nationalists over regional integration, the Cold War, immigration policy and financial aid in the decades before Jamaica, Trinidad and the other territories of the Anglophone Caribbean became independent.
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145 p, The Guatemalan government sought to build an extensive railroad system in the 1880s, and actively recruited foreign labor. For poor workers of African descent, immigrating to Guatemala was seen as an opportunity to improve their lives and escape from the racism of the Jim Crow U.S. South and the French and British colonial Caribbean. Using primary and secondary sources as well as ethnographic data, Opie details the struggles of these workers who were ultimately inspired to organize by the ideas of Marcus Garvey. Regularly suffering class- and race-based attacks and persecution, black laborers frequently met such attacks with resistance. Their leverage--being able to shut down the railroad--was crucially important to the revolutionary movements in 1897 and 1920.
Powell,Andrew (Author) and Inter-American Development Bank (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank
Location:
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93 p., "To capture how alternative paths for the main participants in the world economy impact Latin America and the Caribbean, this report describes the maze of connections between the Region and the rest of the world, and provides an analysis of the most relevant topics within this labyrinth of connections. Our aim is to consider how Latin America and the Caribbean may fare under different paths taken by the world economy. On the whole, we are optimistic about the Region's prospects. And while we hope for the best, the Region should plan for the worst. In the pages that follow, the Region's resilience and potential reaction to possible shocks is assessed; on this basis, recommendations are proposed." --The Author
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Exeter., 225 p., Surveys the historical and contemporary context of the Caribbean and defines its struggle against inequality and the distortion of identity. This history of the Caribbean is a history of the resistance by the people of the Caribbean against inequality and notions of their inferiority. Caribbean Theology is founded on this emancipatory imagination of the people and this spirit of resistance.
Boston, Mass; Enfield : Publishers Group UK distributor], Projected Date: Beacon; 201203
Location:
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After peaking at 27 percent of all major leaguers in 1975, African Americans now make up less than one-tenth--a decline unimaginable in other men's pro sports. The number of Latin Americans, by contrast, has exploded to over one-quarter of all major leaguers and roughly half of those playing in the minors. Ruck explains that integration cost black and Caribbean societies control over their own sporting lives, changing the meaning of the sport, but not always for the better. While it channeled black and Latino athletes into major league baseball, integration did little for the communities they left behind.
Alexandria, VA: Crest Books, The Salvation Army National Headquarters
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262 p., The Salvation Army first arrived in Jamaica in 1887, just 50 years after the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean. Jamaica was struggling economically and socially under the rule of a colonial white elite, which had drawn sharp class and racial boundaries to maintain the balance of power. Resulting tensions were acute. This sweeping history by Allen Satterlee unveils the socio-political as well as physical fault lines facing the Army as it began to break new ground in the region. As pioneer Salvationists united with enterprising Africans, the Army's mission in the Caribbean grew in unique ways and forms of expression.
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361 p., "I wrote Transfer Day as a way to honor the people of the Virgin Islands and to honor the upcoming Centennial celebration in 2017." --The Author
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353 p., Interspersing colonial history with her family's experience, Stuart explores the interconnected themes of settlement, sugar and slavery. In examining how these forces shaped her own family--its genealogy, intimate relationships, circumstances of birth, varying hues of skin--she illuminates how her family, among millions of others like it, in turn transformed the society in which they lived, and how that interchange continues to this day.
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294 p., Documents the lives and work of black individuals and organizations in the West Indies from 1900 to 1989, centered on the worlds of labor and black journalism. The French Caribbean is not covered here. Focuses on historical information as well as information on relationships between the two main "servant" minorities of the British Empire: Caribbeans originally from Africa and from India/Pakistan.
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159 p., Many of those who emigrated from the Caribbean to the UK after World War II left behind partners and children, causing the break-up of families who were often not reunited for several years. Elaine Arnold examines the psychological impact that immigration had on these families, in particular with relation to attachment issues.
Arthur,John A. (Author), Takougang,Joseph (Author), and Owusu,Thomas Y. (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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326 p, Four overarching themes underscore the essays in this book. These are the creation of African diaspora community and institutional structures; the structured and shared relationships among African immigrants, host, and homeland societies; the construction and negotiation of diaspora spaces, and domains (racial, ethnic, class consciousness, including identity politics; and finally African migrant economic integration, occupational, and labor force roles and statuses and impact on host societies.
Byron,Margaret (Author) and Condon,Stéphanie (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
London: Routledge
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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288 p., Presents a different perspective on post-war Caribbean migration to Britain and France. This book examines trends in migration patterns, household and family structures, social fields, employment and housing trajectories.
Tavistock, Devon, U.K; London: Northcote; British Council
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153 p, Jean Rhys and her critics -- Feminist approaches to Jean Rhys -- The Caribbean question -- Writing in the margins -- Autobiography and ambivalence -- 'The day they burned the books' -- Fort Comme La Mort : the French Connection -- The politics of Good morning, midnight -- The huge machine of law, order and respectability -- Resisting the machine -- The enemy within -- Goodnight, day -- Intemperate and unchaste -- The other side -- The struggle for the sign.
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207 p., Fosters a dialogue across islands and languages between established and lesser-known authors, bringing together archipelagic and diasporic voices from the Francophone and Hispanic Antilles. In this pan-diasporic study, Ferly shows that a comparative analysis of female narratives is often most pertinent across linguistic zones.
Grosléziat,Chantal (Editor), Mindy,Paul (Music compiler), and Corvaisier,Laurent (Illustrator)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
Montréal: Secret Mountain
Location:
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1 vol. (unpaged) + 1 sound disc, Collection celebrates life’s passages and various island rituals in the tropical isles of Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, and Reunion. Lyrics are reproduced in the original French Creole dialects and translated into English, followed by notes on the origin and cultural context of each song.
Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
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296 p., The formal evolution of colonial prose narrative, Ianinni argues, was contingent upon the emergence of natural history writing, which itself emerged necessarily from within the context of Atlantic slavery and the production of tropical commodities. As he reestablishes the history of cultural exchange between the Caribbean and North America, Ianinni recovers the importance of the West Indies in the formation of American literary and intellectual culture as well as its place in assessing the moral implications of colonial slavery.
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310 p., Explores aboriginal and Creole identities in Guyanese society. Reveals how Creoles, though unable to usurp the place of aboriginals as First Peoples in the New World, nonetheless managed to introduce a new, more socially viable definition of belonging, through labor. The very reason for bringing enslaved and indentured workers into Caribbean labor became the organizing principle for Creoles' new identities.
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387 p., Focuses on the origins of the Caribbean creole language Papiamentu. Argues that Papiamentu is genetically related to the Portuguese-based creoles of the Cape Verde Islands, Guinea-Bissau, and Casamance (Senegal). Following the trans-Atlantic transfer of native speakers to Curaçao in the latter half of the 17th century, the Portuguese-based proto-variety underwent a far-reaching process of relexification towards Spanish, affecting the basic vocabulary while leaving intact the original phonology, morphology, and syntax.
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274 p., Examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. Chamoiseau's work sheds light on the dynamic processes of creolization that have shaped Caribbean history and culture. The author's diverse body of work, which includes plays, novels, fictionalized memoirs, treatises, and other genres of writing, offers a compelling vision of the postcolonial world from a francophone Caribbean perspective.
Molinas Vega, Jose R. (Author), Barros, Ricardo Paes de (Author), Saavedra Chanduvi, Jaime (Author), Giugale, Marcelo (Author), Cord, Louise J. (Author), Pessino, Carola (Author), and Hasan, Amer (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
Washington,DC: World Bank
Location:
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154 p, This book assesses the status and evolution of human opportunity in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC). It builds on the 2008 publication, "Measuring Inequality of Opportunity," in several directions. First, it uses newly-available data to expand the set of opportunities and personal circumstances under analysis. The data is representative of some 200 million children living in 19 countries over the last 15 years. Second, it compares human opportunity in LAC with that of developed countries, among them the U.S. and France, two very different models of social policy.
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154 p., Assesses the status and evolution of human opportunity in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It uses data representative of some 200 million children living in 19 countries over the last 15 years. Compares human opportunity in LAC with that of developed countries, among them the U.S. and France, two very different models of social policy.
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391 p., A comparative study of postwar West Indian migration to the former colonial capitals of Paris and London. It studies the effects of this population shift on national and cultural identity and traces the postcolonial Caribbean experience through analyses of the concepts of identity and diaspora. Through close readings of selected literary works and film, H. Adlai Murdoch explores the ways in which these immigrants and their descendants represented their metropolitan identities.
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196 p., Argues that cultural and literary expressions of illness, suffering, and subjectivity in the postcolonial context are always in dialogue with seemingly external discourses and practices of health. Thus, through sustained analyses of historical, biomedical and sociocultural currents in the context of eight Francophone novels from 1968 to 2003, the book advances a new theory of critical conditions. These critical conditions represent the conjunction of bodily, psychic, and textual states that defy conventional definitions of health and well-being.
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260 p., Offers a comparative analysis of fiction from across the pan-Caribbean, exploring the relationship between literary form, cultural practice, and the nation-state. 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 problematic 'postcolonial' present of the region's peoples.
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238 p., Tracing the representation of Caribbean characters in British children's literature from 1700, this title challenges traditional notions of British children's literature as mono-cultural by illuminating the contributions of colonial and postcolonial-era Black British writers.
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346 p., A comparative feminist work that starts with a substantial historical account of the different ways that freedom, race and gender were intertwined in Jamaica and Haiti after the end of slavery.
