Beyond the blood, the beach & the banana : new perspectives in Caribbean studies / edited by Sandra Courtman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Courtman, Sandra, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Caribbean.

Caribbean Area--History.

Caribbean Area.

Caribbean Area--Social conditions.

Caribbean Area--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 481 pages)

Place of Publication:

Kingston, Jamaica ; Miami, Florida : Ian Randle Publishers, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Beyond the Blood, the Beach and the Banana emphasises the significance of the Caribbean in an increasingly globalised social world and draws attention to the contribution that scholarship in Caribbean Studies makes in coming to terms with a multi-cultural heritage. The compilation deliberately ranges in focus across periods, geographies, linguistic divisions and subject matter to present the fruition of significant research projects by 25 researchers from the Caribbean, North America and Europe. Contributors on the Hispanic, Dutch, African, Indian and Anglophone Caribbean juxtaposed with work on the Caribbean diasporas of the USA, UK, Canada and the Netherlands enrich the text with multiple perspectives.

Contents:

All sights reserved : all-inclusive resorts and the imagined Caribbean / Gavan Titley

Cracks in the kingdom of the Netherlands : an inside story / Lammert de Jong

The translatlantic banana war and the marginalisation of Caribbean trading interests / Peter Clegg

The impact of globalisation on the Caribbean sugar and banana industries / Belel Ahmed

Dis-ordering the world in the eighteenth-century : the voyage of the Sable Venus : connoisseurship and the trivialising of slavery / Rosalie Smith McCrea

The impact of Indian film in Trinadad / Lynne Macedo

A good kicker : analysing script and screen with adolescent boys in Jamaica / Beth Cross

A philosophy of survival : anancyism in Jamaican pantomime / Ruth Minott Egglestone

The corporeal and the sensual in two novels by Shani Mootoo and Julia Alvarez / Angela Brüning

Representations of deference and defiance in the novels of Caryl Phillips / John Ford

Re-inventing Jamaican history : Roger Mais and George William Gordon / Karina Williamson

Forging subjectivity in the Jamaican-British borderlands : emotion and identity in Joan Riley's The unbelonging / Barbara Shaw Perry

'A strange synchronicity' : the language of landscapes in Lawrence Scott's Aelred's sin / Emily Wroe.

Deadening, voyeuristic and reiterative? Problems of representation in Caribbean research / David Lambert

Flying away and grounds for concern : mobility, location and ethical discomfort in researching Caribbean history from the UK / Christer Petley

The importance of reflexivity in Caribbean research : thinking through 'race', self and politics / Tracey Skelton

Textualising slavery : from 'slave' to 'enslaved people' in Caribbean historiography / John F. Campbell

The other side of slave revolts / Gelien Matthews

More than producers and reproducers : Jamaican slave women's dance and song / Henrice Altink

Caribbean migration and adjustment to Canada : pursuing the mobility dream 1900-1998 / Dwaine Plaza

'Blacks in ivory towers can't write about ghettos' : West Indian worker writers in 1970s Britain / Sandra Courtman

Inbetweenity : marginalisation, migration and poverty among Haitians in the Turks and Caicos Islands / Dennis A.V. Brown

Postmodernity or profitability? Changing modes of tourism in Jamaica / David R. Dodman

Natural hedonism : the invention of Caribbean Islands as tropical playgrounds / Mimi Sheller

Sleeping with the enemy' : Jineterismo, 'cultural level' and 'antisocial behaviour' in 1990s Cuba / Mette Louise Berg

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789766376475

9766376476