Caribbean migrations : the legacies of colonialism / edited by Anke Birkenmaier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Birkenmaier, Anke, editor.

Series:

Critical Caribbean studies

Critical caribbean studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

West Indians.

Postcolonialism.

Emigration and immigration.

Intellectual life.

Caribbean Area--Civilization.

Caribbean Area.

Civilization.

Caribbean Area--Intellectual life.

Caribbean Area--Emigration and immigration.

Postcolonialism--Caribbean Area.

West Indians--Migrations.

Genre:

Informational works.

Physical Description:

vii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"With mass migration changing the configuration of societies worldwide, we can look to the Caribbean to reflect on the long-standing, entangled relations between countries and areas as uneven in size and influence as the United States, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica. More so than other world regions, the Caribbean has been characterized as an always already colonial region. It has long been a key area for empires warring over influence spheres in the new world, and where migration waves from Africa, Europe, and Asia accompanied every political transformation over the last five centuries. In Caribbean Migrations, an interdisciplinary group of humanities and social science scholars study migration from a long-term perspective, analyzing the Caribbean's "unincorporated subjects" from a legal, historical, and cultural standpoint, and exploring how despite often fractured public spheres, Caribbean intellectuals, artists, filmmakers, and writers have been resourceful at showcasing migration as the hallmark of our modern age"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: An otherwise modern archive on migration / Anke Birkenmaier

A permanent periphery: Caribbean migration flows and the world economy / Alejandro Portes

Part I: Unincorporated subjects (Puerto Rico, Guam)

The role of state actors in Puerto Rico's long century of migration, 1899-2015 / Carlos Vargas-Ramos

"May God take me to Orlando": the Puerto Rican exodus to Florida before and after Hurricane Maria / Jorge Duany

Caribbean mediascapes: ruins and debt in Puerto Rico / Jossianna Arroyo

Circumscribed citizenship: Caribbean American visibility / Vivian Halloran

From father to humanitarian: charting intimacies and discontinuities in Ricky Martin's social media presence and writing / Edward Chamberlain

Terripelagoes: archipelagic thinking in Culebra, Puerto Rico, and Guam / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel

Part II: Technologies of representation (Cuba, Jamaica)

The Caribbean in the U.S. imagination: travel writing, annexation, and slavery / Daylet Domínguez

Contemporary Afrocubana feminisms: race, gender, and sexuality in Havana / Devyn Spence Benson

Going back to Cuba: how enclaves of memory stimulate returns and repatriations / Iraida H. López

The floating generation: Cuban art in the post-Soviet period, 1991-2017 / Rafael Rojas

"It would make a rat puke": diasporic thinking in contemporary Jamaican art practices / Jane Bryce

Part III: Languages of the diaspora (Hispaniola, United States)

Kreyòl Sung, Kreyòl understood: Haitian songwriter BIC (Roosevelt Saillant) reflects on language and poetics / Rebecca Dirksen and Kendy Vérilus

Migration and its discontents: the Dominican films of Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas / Anke Birkenmaier

Transnational Hispaniola: the first decade in support of a new paradigm for Haitian and Dominican studies / Kiran C. Jayaram and April J. Mayes

New points of the rhizome: rethinking Caribbean relation in U.S. Latinx poetry / Emily A. Maguire

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781978814493

1978814496

9781978814509

197881450X

OCLC:

1142889633