Creating The Creole Island
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Creating The Creole Island
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Author : Megan Vaughan
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2005-02-01
Creating The Creole Island written by Megan Vaughan and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-01 with History categories.
The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists in the late sixteenth century, Mauritius was subsequently populated by many different peoples as successive waves of colonizers and slaves arrived at its shores. The French ruled the island from the early eighteenth century until the early nineteenth. Throughout the 1700s, ships brought men and women from France to build the colonial population and from Africa and India as slaves. In Creating the Creole Island, the distinguished historian Megan Vaughan traces the complex and contradictory social relations that developed on Mauritius under French colonial rule, paying particular attention to questions of subjectivity and agency. Combining archival research with an engaging literary style, Vaughan juxtaposes extensive analysis of court records with examinations of the logs of slave ships and of colonial correspondence and travel accounts. The result is a close reading of life on the island, power relations, colonialism, and the process of cultural creolization. Vaughan brings to light complexities of language, sexuality, and reproduction as well as the impact of the French Revolution. Illuminating a crucial period in the history of Mauritius, Creating the Creole Island is a major contribution to the historiography of slavery, colonialism, and creolization across the Indian Ocean.
Creolised Science
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Author : Dorit Brixius
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-04-30
Creolised Science written by Dorit Brixius 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 2024-04-30 with Nature categories.
Truly global study of creolised plant knowledge in eighteenth-century Mauritius, exploring how people came together to create new practices.
Ephemeral Coast Visualizing Coastal Climate Change
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Author : Celina Jeffery
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2022-08-02
Ephemeral Coast Visualizing Coastal Climate Change written by Celina Jeffery and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-02 with Art categories.
"Ephemeral Coast - Visualizing Coastal Climate Change" considers the ways that art can offer a means through which to discover, analyze, re-imagine and re-frame emotive discourses about the ecological and cultural transformations of the coastline. This edited anthology takes ephemerality as its central conceptual and methodological framework and presents a series of essays that create interconnections between environmental and social considerations of the coast, a succession of embodied creative practices, and shifting regional geographic identities. The book presents a series of specific case studies of artistic practices and strategies that seek to capture the rewriting of cartographic maps that are being reshaped by rising seas, coastal flooding and catastrophic weather. The essays in this edited volume engender creative strategies for understanding new and uncertain coastal ecologies and the loss, expulsion or destruction of their associated cultures, habitats, species and ecosystems. The anthology also looks at the historical, mnemonic and contemporary transitional conditions of ‘conflicted’ coastal spaces in which empire, modernity and globalization press on coastal erosion and incursions, proliferate it with trivial plastics, pollution and disposable attitudes, and bring vulnerable communities into uncertain futures."
Engendering Islands
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Author : Ashley M. Williard
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2021-06
Engendering Islands written by Ashley M. Williard and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06 with History categories.
Ashley M. Williard argues that early Caribbean reconstructions of masculinity and femininity sustained occupation, slavery, and nascent ideas of race.
Moving Subjects
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Author : Tony Ballantyne
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2009
Moving Subjects written by Tony Ballantyne and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Investigating how intimacy is constructed across the restless world of empire
Islanded Identities
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Author : Maeve McCusker
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2011
Islanded Identities written by Maeve McCusker and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Criticism categories.
Preliminary Material -- Island Theory: The Antipodes /Matthew Boyd Goldie -- Writing Against the Tide?: Patrick Chamoiseau's (Is)land Imaginary /Maeve Mccusker -- A Distinctive Disaster Literature: Montserrat Island Poetry under Pressure /Jonathan Skinner -- Rethinking Identity and Belonging: 'Mauritianness' in the Work of Ananda Devi /Ritu Tyagi -- From Slave to Tourist Entertainer: Performative Negotiations of Identity and Difference in Mauritius /Burkhard Schnepel and Cornelia Schnepel -- “Amid the Alien Corn”: British India as Human Island /Ralph Crane -- Journalism and Identity: The Red-Top Hangover and Erosions of 'Island Mentality' in Postcolonial Ireland /Mark Wehrly -- Western Blood in an Eastern Island: Affective Identities in Timor-Leste /Anthony Soares -- “No Man is an Island”: National Literary Canons, Writers, and Readers /Lyn Innes -- Impure Islands: Europe and a Post-Imperial Polity /Paulo de Medeiros -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Connecting Continents
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Author : Krish Seetah
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-07
Connecting Continents written by Krish Seetah and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-07 with Social Science categories.
In recent decades, the vast and culturally diverse Indian Ocean region has increasingly attracted the attention of anthropologists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and other researchers. Largely missing from this growing body of scholarship, however, are significant contributions by archaeologists and consciously interdisciplinary approaches to studying the region’s past and present. Connecting Continents addresses two important issues: how best to promote collaborative research on the Indian Ocean world, and how to shape the research agenda for a region that has only recently begun to attract serious interest from historical archaeologists. The archaeologists, historians, and other scholars who have contributed to this volume tackle important topics such as the nature and dynamics of migration, colonization, and cultural syncretism that are central to understanding the human experience in the Indian Ocean basin. This groundbreaking work also deepens our understanding of topics of increasing scholarly and popular interest, such as the ways in which people construct and understand their heritage and can make use of exciting new technologies like DNA and environmental analysis. Because it adopts such an explicitly comparative approach to the Indian Ocean, Connecting Continents provides a compelling model for multidisciplinary approaches to studying other parts of the globe. Contributors: Richard B. Allen, Edward A. Alpers, Atholl Anderson, Nicole Boivin, Diego Calaon, Aaron Camens, Saša Čaval, Geoffrey Clark, Alison Crowther, Corinne Forest, Simon Haberle, Diana Heise, Mark Horton, Paul Lane, Martin Mhando, and Alistair Patterson.
Introduction To Martinique
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Author : Gilad James, PhD
language : en
Publisher: Gilad James Mystery School
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Introduction To Martinique written by Gilad James, PhD and has been published by Gilad James Mystery School this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Travel categories.
Martinique is an island located in the Caribbean Sea, specifically amongst the Lesser Antilles. It is a French territory, making it a unique blend of Caribbean and European cultures. The island has a rich history, having been inhabited by the Carib people before it was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493. It was later colonized by the French, who brought with them African slaves and indentured laborers from India. This cultural mix has resulted in a vibrant Creole culture, with a French-Caribbean cuisine that is renowned around the world. Martinique is known for its beautiful beaches and warm and friendly people. Visitors can explore the island’s history through its many cultural landmarks, such as the Fort-de-France Cathedral and the home of the famous poet Aimé Césaire. In addition to its rich cultural history, the island is also a popular destination for water sports and outdoor activities, with ample opportunities for hiking, diving, and sailing. Whether you are looking for relaxation or adventure, Martinique is a unique and beautiful destination that is sure to provide an unforgettable experience.
Making Sense Of People And Place In Linguistic Landscapes
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Author : Amiena Peck
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-10-18
Making Sense Of People And Place In Linguistic Landscapes written by Amiena Peck and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume offers comprehensive analyses of how we live continuously in a multiplicity and simultaneity of 'places'. It explores what it means to be in place, the variety of ways in which meanings of place are made and how relationships to others are mediated through the linguistic and material semiotics of place. Drawing on examples of linguistic landscapes (LL) over the world, such as gentrified landscapes in Johannesburg and Brunswick, Mozambican memorializations, volatile train graffiti in Stockholm, Brazilian protest marches, Guadeloupian Creole signs, microscapes of souvenirs in Guinea-Bissau and old landscapes of apartheid in South Africa in contemporary time, this book explores how we are what we are through how we are emplaced. Across these examples, world-leading contributors explore how LLs contribute to the (re)imagining of different selves in the living past (living the past in the present), alternative presents and imagined futures. It focuses particularly on how the LL in all of these mediations is read through emotionality and affect, creating senses of belonging, precarity and hope across a simultaneous multiplicity of worlds. The volume offers a reframing of linguistics landscape research in a geohumanities framework emphasizing negotiations of self in place in LL studies, building upon a rich body of LL research. With over 40 illustrations, it covers various methodological and epistemological issues, such as the need for extended temporal engagement with landscapes, a mobile approach to landscapes and how bodies engage with texts.
Islands And The British Empire In The Age Of Sail
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Author : Douglas Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
Islands And The British Empire In The Age Of Sail written by Douglas Hamilton and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.
Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them. The maritime routes of sailing ships, the victualling requirements of their sailors, and the strategic demands of seaborne empires in the age of sail - as well as their intrinsic value as sources of rare commodities - meant that islands across the globe played prominent parts in imperial consolidation and expansion. This volume examines the various ways in which islands (and groups of islands) contributed to the establishment, extension, and maintenance of the British Empire in the age of sail. Thematically related chapters explore the geographical, topographical, economic, and social diversity of the islands that comprised a large component of the British Empire in an era of rapid and significant expansion. Although many of these islands were isolated rocky outcrops, they acted as crucial nodal points, providing critical assistance for ships and men embarked on the long-distance voyages that characterised British overseas activities in the period. Intercontinental maritime trade, colonial settlement, and scientific exploration and experimentation would have been impossible without these oceanic islands. They also acted as sites of strategic competition, contestation, and conflict for rival European powers keen to outstrip each other in developing and maintaining overseas markets, plantations, and settlements. The importance of islands outstripped their physical size, the populations they sustained, or their individual economic contribution to the imperial balance sheet. Standing at the centre of maritime routes of global connectivity, islands offer historians of the British Empire fresh perspectives on the intercontinental communication, commercial connections, and territorial expansion that characterised that empire.