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228 p, Contents: Canonized hybridities, resistant hybridities: Chutney Soca, carnival, and the politics of nationalism / Shalini Puri -- Soca and social formations: avoiding the romance of culture in Trinidad / Stefano Harney -- Trinidad romance: the invention of Jamaican carnival / Belinda J. Edmondson -- All that is black melts into air: negritud and nation in Puerto Rico / Catherine Den Tandt -- Positive vibration? Capitalist textual hegemony and Bob Marley / Mike Alleyne --"Titid ad pèp la se marasa": Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the new national romance in Haiti / Kevin Meehan -- Shadowboxing in the Mangrove: the politics of identity in postcolonial Martinique / Richard Price and Sally Price -- Beautiful Indians, troublesome negroes, and nice white men: Caribbean romances and the invention of Trinidad / Faith Smith -- Homing instincts: immigrant nostalgia and gender politics in Brown girl, brownstones / Supriya Nair -- Derek Walcott: liminal spaces/substantive histories / Tejumola Olaniyan
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174 p., Reading the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid, Dionne Brand, Jean Rhys, Erna Brodber, and Michelle Cliff alongside British texts such as Dickens's Great Expectations and Bronte's Jane Eyre, Renk demonstrates how contemporary Anglophone Caribbean women's writing radically subverts the myth of the family as it is constructed in 19th century British and colonial texts. These women writers reconfigure Caribbean identity, family, and nation according to cross-cultural, trans-national and transtemporal paradigms.
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358 p, Contents: From A true and exact history of the island of Barbados (1657) /; Richard Ligon --; From Jamaica viewed (1661) /; Edmund Hickeringill --; From Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies (1684) /; Thomas Tryon --; Trip to Jamaica (1698) /; Edward Ward --; Speech made by a Black of Guardaloupe (1709) /; Anonymous --; Speech of Moses Bon Saam (1735) /; Anonymous --; From The speech of Mr. John Talbot Campo-bell (1736) /; Robert Robertson --; Story of Inkle and Yarico and An epistle from Yarico to Inkle, after he had left her in slavery (1738) /; Frances Seymour --; Poems from Caribbeana (1741) /; The "Ingenious Lady" of Barbados --; Sugar cane: a poem, in four books (1764) /; James Grainger --; From A general description of the West-Indian islands (1767) /; John Singleton --; "Carmen, or, an Ode," in Edward Long's A history of Jamaica (1774) /; Francis Williams --; From Jamaica, a poem, in three parts (1777) /; Anonymous.
Papiamento, English, French Creole, Garifuna, Haitian Creole and Spanis
Publication Date:
1999
Published:
New York, NY: Putumayo World Music
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in., Includes: Promo bia (4:39) (Aruba) / E.Q.O. -- Come again (4:37) (Anguilla/St. Thomas) / Osha -- Movin' to the top (3:34) (Jamaica) / Don Carlos & Gold -- La biguine des enfants du Bon Dieu (4:24) (Martinique) / Kali -- Nabi (4:32) (Belize) / Andy Palacio -- Lina (4:51) (Haiti) / Beethova Obas -- Bai drecha bo bin (6:11) (Curacao) / La Perfecta -- Nati (3:56) (French Guyana/Martinique) / Chris Combette -- Tre d'ynion (5:19) (Martinique) / Claude Vamur -- In mi system (4:22) (Barbados) / Krosfyah
The genesis of these carnivals carries the intent of resisting on some level, by Caribbean migrants, the otherwise alienating conditions of life in migration, to "carnivalise" these landscapes with some of the joy and space commensurate with Caribbean carnival. Indeed, Caribbean intellectual contributions have had successful impact on the development of U.S., European and African thought. Still, the Caribbean in most imaginings, and in particular to those who do not know it well, is the place of "sun and fun," a vacation land devoid of serious engagement with the world. Caribbean carnival then is the climax of all those "sun and fun" constructions. Yet, there is a history and politics to carnival - a "carnival of resistance" beyond the outer face of "carnival of tourism" - that demands exposure.
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211 p, Contents: Introduction: Historicising 'Woman' and Slavery -- Black Women and the Political Economy of Slavery -- Property Rights in Pleasure: marketing Black Women's Sexuality -- Phibbah's Price: A black 'wife' for Thomas Thisleewood -- White women and freedom -- Fenwick's Fortune: A White Woman's West India Dream -- A Governor's Wife's Tale: Lady Nugent's "Blackies" -- A Planter's Wife's Tale: Mrs. Carmichael's Pro-Slavery Discourse -- Old Doll's Daughters: Flight from Bondage and Blackness -- An Economic Life of Their Own: Enslaved Women as Entrepreneurs -- Taking Liberties: Enslaved Women and Anti-Slavery Politics -- Historicising Slavery in Caribbean Feminism.
