Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Edmondson,Belinda J. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1999
    WorldCat URL:
    http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/0813918219
    Published:
    Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    ISBN:
    0813918219
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, Politics and government, Literature, Fiction, Social conditions, Popular culture, Civilization, and History and criticism (genre, time periods, etc.)
    Notes:
    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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