Caribbean Perspectives On Modernity
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Caribbean Perspectives On Modernity
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Author : Maria Cristina Fumagalli
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2009-11-02
Caribbean Perspectives On Modernity written by Maria Cristina Fumagalli and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Taking up the challenge of redefining modernity from a Caribbean perspective instead of assuming that the North Atlantic view of modernity is universal, Maria Cristina Fumagalli shows how the Caribbean's contributions to the modern world not only provide a more accurate account of the past but also have the potential to change the way in which we imagine the future. Fumagalli uses the myth of Medusa's gaze turning people into stone to describe the way North Atlantic modernity freezes its "others" into a state of perpetual backwardness that produces an ethnocentric narrative based on homogenization, vilification, and disempowerment that actively ignores what fails to conform to the story it wants to tell about itself. In analyzing narratives of modernity that originate in the Caribbean, the author explores the region's refusal to succumb to Medusa's spell and highlights its strategies to outstare the Gorgon. Reflecting a diversity of texts, genres, and media, the chapters focus on sixteenth-century engravings and paintings from the Netherlands and Italy, a scientific romance produced at the turn of the twentieth century by the king of the Caribbean island Redonda, contemporary collections of poetry from the anglophone Caribbean, a historical novel by the Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé, a Latin epic, a Homeric hymn, ancient Egyptian rites, fairy tales, romances from England and Jamaica, a long narrative poem by the Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott, and paintings by artists from Europe and the Americas spanning the seventeenth century to the present. Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity offers an original and creative contribution to what it means to be modern.
Perspectives On The Caribbean
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Author : Philip W. Scher
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2009-09-15
Perspectives On The Caribbean written by Philip W. Scher and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-15 with Social Science categories.
perspectives on The Caribbean perspectives on The Caribbean “Genuflecting to no tried metaphors, this is a refreshing collection of cross-disciplinary voices that compel new ways of seeing and thinking about the still undiscovered Caribbean.” Patricia Mohammed, University of the west Indies, St Augustine Presenting a broad understanding of the complex region of the Caribbean, Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation provides a variety of viewpoints on the rich spectrum of Caribbean culture. Essays, carefully chosen from a vast body of existing literature, expose readers to a variety of approaches, voices and topics that have emerged in Caribbean studies. Readings are interdisciplinary in nature and integrate themes from history, folklore, sociology, anthropology and political economy. Both contemporary viewpoints and classic readings reveal how the Caribbean has led scholars to new ways of exploring cultural hybridity in contemporary society. Each section includes brief introductions to put the readings in context with the connections between modern Caribbean culture and its historical roots, and also includes suggested readings for more in-depth study. Perspectives on the Caribbean offers revealing insights into one of the most diverse and complex regions in the Americas.
The Cultural Politics Of Obeah
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Author : Diana Paton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-08-10
The Cultural Politics Of Obeah written by Diana Paton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-10 with History categories.
A study of the importance of debates about obeah, and state suppression of it, for Caribbean struggles about freedom and citizenship.
Cannibal Modernities
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Author : Luís Madureira
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2005
Cannibal Modernities written by Luís Madureira and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Avant-garde (Aesthetics). categories.
With inclusion of Brazil in a comparative study of literary texts and their engagement with Western modernity, this study shows how the ""peripheral"" replications of modernity in contemporary Caribbean and Latin American texts differ crucially from their European models, and addresses issues that many post colonial theorists have struggled with.
Modern Political Culture In The Caribbean
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Author : Holger Henke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Modern Political Culture In The Caribbean written by Holger Henke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
This contribution to the study and analysis of Caribbean politics explores the political culture of the Caribbean in order to understand the regional differences. The contributors, renowned internationally for their expertise in Caribbean studies, explore the topic from their varied cultural experiences and offer a new dimension to the study of political culture.
Beyond The Black Atlantic
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Author : Walter Goebel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-07-29
Beyond The Black Atlantic written by Walter Goebel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Debates about the ‘Black Atlantic’ have alerted us to an experience of modernization that diverges from the dominant Western narratives of globalization and technological progress. This outstanding volume expands the concept of the Black Atlantic by reaching beyond the usual African-American focus of the field, presenting fresh perspectives on postcolonial experiences of technology and modernization. A team of renowned contributors come together in this volume in order to: redefine and expand ideas of Black Atlantic challenge unified concepts of modernization from a postcolonial perspective question fashionable concepts of the transnational by returning to the local and the national offer new approaches to cross-cultural mechanisms of exchange explore utopian uses of technology in the postcolonial sphere. Exploring a variety of national, diasporan and transnational counternarratives to Western modernization, Beyond the Black Atlantic makes a valuable contribution to the fields of postcolonial, literary and cultural studies.
Elusive Origins
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Author : Paul B. Miller
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2010-05-31
Elusive Origins written by Paul B. Miller and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Although the questions of modernity and postmodernity are debated as frequently in the Caribbean as in other cultural zones, the Enlightenment—generally considered the origin of European modernity—is rarely discussed as such in the Caribbean context. Paul B. Miller constellates modern Caribbean writers of varying national and linguistic traditions whose common thread is their representation of the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution in the Caribbean. In a comparative reading of such writers as Alejo Carpentier (Cuba), C. L. R. James (Trinidad), Marie Chauvet (Haiti), Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe), Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), and Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá (Puerto Rico), Miller shows how these authors deploy their historical imagination in order to assess and reevaluate the elusive and often conflicted origins of their own modernity. Miller documents the conceptual and ideological shift from an earlier generation of writers to a more recent one whose narrative strategies bear a strong resemblance to postmodern cultural practices, including the use of parody in targeting their discursive predecessors, the questioning of Enlightenment assumptions, and a suspicion regarding the dialectical unfolding of history as their precursors understood it. By positing the Cuban Revolution as a dividing line between the earlier generation and their postmodern successors, Miller confers a Caribbean specificity upon the commonplace notion of postmodernity. The dual advantage of Elusive Origins's thematic specificity coupled with its inclusiveness allows a reflection on canonical writers in conjunction with lesser-known figures. Furthermore, the inclusion of Francophone and Anglophone writers in addition to those from the Hispanic Caribbean opens up the volume geographically, linguistically, and nationally, expanding its contribution to a nonessentialist understanding of the Caribbean in a Latin American, Atlantic, and global context.
Decolonial Perspectives On Entangled Inequalities
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Author : Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2021-02-26
Decolonial Perspectives On Entangled Inequalities written by Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-26 with Political Science categories.
This edited collection aims to contribute to the decolonial social and cultural analyses of global entangled inequalities by focusing on their local articulations. Drawing on empirical research conducted by scholars in Germany, Trinidad and Tobago, Australia and in Canada, the book engages with the conceptual framework of global inequalities and the methodological perspective on entanglement. It does so by approaching global inequalities and their local articulations: (a) global political economy, structural violence, entangled inequalities; (b) financial inequalities and state injustice; (c) inequality within and beyond race and ethnicity; (d) decolonial struggles against inequality; and (e) decolonial futurities. It is on these grounds that this edited volume aims to contribute to the analysis of entangled global inequalities by mobilizing a decolonial framework paying attention to the intersections of race, gender, labour, finances and the State.
Third World Mass Media And Their Search For Modernity
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Author : John A. Lent
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Third World Mass Media And Their Search For Modernity written by John A. Lent and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with categories.
New World Modernisms
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Author : Charles W. Pollard
language : en
Publisher: New World Studies (Hardcover)
Release Date : 2004
New World Modernisms written by Charles W. Pollard and has been published by New World Studies (Hardcover) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
Pollard looks to recent Caribbean poetry as a means of reassessing modernism's cosmopolitanism; in particular, his book redefines the cosmopolitan influence of T.S. Eliot's modernism by examining how his ideas have been transformed by the two leading Anglophone Caribbean poets, Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite.