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271 p., Investigates the impact of American literature and culture upon the Anglophone Caribbean during and following the Second World War. Traditional inquiries involving this era usually render the Caribbean in colonial and/or post-colonial contexts; this dissertation instead looks to understand alternative variables, especially the widespread affiliations with U.S. culture made by emergent Caribbean writers from the so-called “Windrush Generation” that were exposed to American soldiers serving overseas. Contents: C.L.R. James -- V.S. Naipaul -- Sylvia Wynter -- George Lamming.
Inspired by the African Diaspora in the Caribbean, Katherine Dunham spearheaded an American dance revolution, breaking down social barriers and prejudice
"The 'spy-glass of Anthropology,' Zora Neale Hurston's telling metaphor for anthropological training under Franz Boaz during her Barnard years, is the most quoted and least interpreted image in a body of work remarkable for its rich configuration." --The Author
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239 p, Contents: Africans in English patriarchy -- Afro-Caribbean culture, Euro-Caribbean institutions -- The Methodist society -- In a free society -- The struggle for recognition -- The demise of the local: the background for a global community -- The global community -- Global culture, island identity
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Prev. ed. published: Rio de Janeiro: EdUERJ, 1996, 268 p., Contents: 1. A matriz africana no mundo -- 2. Cultura em movimento : matrizes africanas e ativismo negro no Brasil -- 3. Guerreiras de natureza : mulher negra, religiosidade e ambiente -- 4. Afrocentricidade : uma abordagem epistemológica inovadora.
Discusses the January 2010 earthquake that struck in Haiti, focusing on the name of Goudougoudou which Haitians have given the natural disaster. Topics include the onomatopoeic nature of the name which resembles the destruction of buildings, the psychological impact the earthquake has had on Haitian women, and Haiti's efforts to relieve the psychological trauma of the event for children.
"In this essay I discuss the thwarted cultural translation of modernity across the Atlantic and how this process affected the cultural self-understanding of the Caribbean. I will frame my argument by referring to the Hegelian theme of the Subject insofar as this particular concept condenses and articulates the ideology of modernity as a Eurocentric drive for world domination." (author)
Lavou,Victorien (Editor) and Marty,Marlène (Editor)
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Book, Edited
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Contributions in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish.
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2009
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Perpignan: Presses universitaires de Perpignan
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445 p., Discussions that took place during the conference organized from 9 to 11 May 2007 by the Group for Research and Studies on Blacks Latin America (GRENAL -CRILAUP) around issues of race. Highlights various forms of racial bias, whether assumed or openly transfigured, conscious or unconscious.
Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State Popular Press
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365 p, "This book of essays - carefully written by twenty-four authorities on their subjects - provides a deep understanding of and appreciation for the coherence, primacy and, importance of the search for identity in the divergent areas of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Continent." (Barnes & Noble);
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350 p., In this second edition of "The Repeating Island," Antonio Benitez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Benitez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benitez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean--the area's discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics--there emerges an "island" of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Benitez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillen, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodriguez Julia.
"A change in attitudes toward nature and "natural persons" during the 1920's-30's in the United States led in part to a revision in North American attitudes toward Latin Americans. Insofar as the peoples of Latin America, including Indians, blacks, women, children, and the poor, symbolized natural folk - that is, those individuals not participating in mainstream capitalist culture - they became the substance of a stereotype made popular by a countercultural revolution in the 1920's-30's." (author)
Yovanovich,Gordana (Editor) and Huras,Amy (Editor)
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Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2010
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Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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316 p., Takes an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American social and cultural identities. With broad regional coverage, and an emphasis on Canadian perspectives, this book focuses on Latin American contact with other cultures and nations. Includes Jessica Franklin's "Afro-Brazilian women's identities and activism : national and transnational discourse," Adrian Smith's "Legal creolization, 'permanent exceptionalism,' and Caribbean sojourners truths" and Janelle Joseph's "The transculturation of capoeira : Brazilian, Canadian, and Caribbean interpretations of an Afro-Brazilian martial art."
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200 p., This book extends our understanding of the black Atlantic, a term coined by Paul Gilroy to describe the political, cultural and creative interrelations among blacks living in Africa, the Americas and Europe. Focuses on pre-colonial English literary constructions and their effects on post-Independence Caribbean literature.
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Originally published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983., 375 p, Probes deeply into the multicultural origins of Caribbean society, defining and tracing the evolution of the distinctive ideology that has arisen from the region’s unique historical mixture of peoples and beliefs. Covers the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century beginnings of Caribbean thought, pro- and antislavery ideologies, the growth of Antillean nationalist and anticolonialist thought during the nineteenth century, and the development of the region’s characteristic secret religious cults from imported religions and European thought.
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375 p., Contents: The sociohistorical setting / The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries : the beginnings of Caribbean thought / The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : the antislavery ideology / The growth of nationalist thought to 1900 / Conclusion
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Original edition translated from Portuguese by Elena Langdon., 266 p., An examination of the meanings of blackness in the Brazilian state of Bahia, which is often called the most African part of Brazil.
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161 p, Contents: Introduction : Who were the masters in the Americas? / Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond -- The sugar daddy : Gilberto Freyre and the white man's love for Blacks / César Braga-Pinto -- Writing Brazilian culture / Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond -- Authority's shadowy double : Thomas Jefferson and the architecture of illegitimacy / Helena Holgersson-Shorter -- Race, nation, and the symbolics of servitude in Haitian noirisme / Valerie Kaussen -- Fanon as "metrocolonial" flaneur in the Caribbean post-plantation/Algerian colonial city / Nalini Natarajan -- From the tropics : cultural subjectivity and politics in Gilberto Freyre / Jossianna Arroyo -- Hybridity and mestizaje : sincretism or subversive complicity? Subalternity from the perspective of the coloniality of power / Ramón Grosfoguel -- The rhythm of Macumba : Lívio Abramo's engagement with Afro-Brazilian culture / Luiza Franco Moreira -- Blood, memory, and nation : massacre and mourning in Edwidge Danticat's The farming of bones / Shreerekha Subramanian.
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251 p, Taylor uses the works of Frantz Fanon to examine the expressive culture of the Afro-Caribbean. Focuses on the narrative of the colonized people and makes a distinction between mythic narrative and the narrative of liberation. (JSTOR)
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372 p, "Historical survey of African peoples in the Americas ranges geographically from British North America to Spanish South America and chronologically from early colonial era to 20th century. Over half of text deals with African-American cultures within modern nations of the Western Hemisphere. Intended for the general reader, work has few footnotes and a sparse bibliography"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.;
