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Beyond borders : cross-culturalism and the Caribbean canon / edited by Jennifer Rahim with Barbara Lalla.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and culture--Caribbean, English-speaking--Congresses.
- Language and culture.
- Postcolonialism--Caribbean, English-speaking--Congresses.
- Postcolonialism.
- Group identity--Caribbean, English-speaking--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses.
- Group identity.
- Caribbean, English-speaking--Civilization--Congresses.
- Caribbean, English-speaking.
- Caribbean, English-speaking--Intellectual life--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Beyond Borders is a multidisciplinary collection of essays with a focus on contemporary issues in Caribbean cultural studies. Culture and cultural identification are, without a doubt, highly charged political Goliaths with local and global ramifications. As a result, there is a growing demand for information in the field for both research and teaching purposes. The essays in this collection explore cross-cultural themes and issues across a range of disciplines that include literature, language, education, history and popular culture. The issues of cultural survival and negotiation, with which most of these essays deal, serve to foreground a history of domination, resistance and marvellous transformations within and beyond the borders of this archipelago. It is no longer possible to pass culture off as simply a matter of commonalities, interests and values, as if politics and power were innocent of influencing what gets defined and consumed as culture. Beyond Borders offers a forum for contemporary debates on Caribbean culture in its ongoing process of evolution. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Cross-Culturalism and the Caribbean Canon
- Part 1 Language and Cultural Evolution
- Language and the Politics of Ethnicity
- Gender and Genre
- More Than the Sum of Its Parts
- Caribbean Cross-Culturalism in The Caribbean Multilingual Dictionary of Flora, Fauna and Foods
- Part 2 Beyond Borders: Questioning the Canon
- Borders, Boundaries and Frames
- Mutual Ground
- Part 3 Negotiating Subjectivities, Finding Ease
- Coping with the New Culture
- Reflections on the Imaging of Africa in the Calypso of Trinidad and Tobago
- Bordering on the Transgressive
- Part 4 The Way Forward
- Issues in Caribbean Cultural Studies
- The School as a Forum for Cross-Culturalism
- Cultural Studies
- Contributors.
- Notes:
- "These essays emanate originally from a cultural studies conference hosted by the Department of Liberal Arts, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, 8 to 10 January 2004."--P. vii.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4416-2030-3
- OCLC:
- 437415340
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