ISBN:
9781403973719
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (305 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.09729
Keywords:
Cultural fusion-Caribbean Area..
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Postcolonialism-Caribbean Area..
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Equality-Caribbean Area..
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Nationalism-Caribbean Area
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Abstract:
Drawing on the long and varied history of discourses of cultural hybridity across the caribbean, this book explores the rich and fraught cultural crossings that are often theorized homogeneously in postcolonial studies as 'hybridity'. What is the relationship of cultural hybridity to social equality? Why have some forms of hybridity been enshrined in the caribbean imagination and others disavowed? What is the appeal of cultural hybridity to nationalist and post-nationalist projects alike? What can we learn from the hybridization of Afro-caribbean and Indo-caribbean cultures set in motion by slavery and indentureship? In answering these questions, this book intervenes in several important debates in postcolonial studies about cultural resistance and popular agency, feminism and cultural nationalism, the relations between postmodernism and postcolonialism, and the status of nationalism in an age of globalization.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 Critique and Methodology -- Chapter 1 Theorizing Hybridity: The Post-Nationalist Moment -- Chapter 2 Theorizing Hybridity: Caribbean Nationalisms -- Part 2 Alternatives and Aesthetics -- Chapter 3 Manifestos of Desire: Hybridity as Forced Poetics -- Chapter 4 Beyond Resistance: Rehearsing Opposition in Derek Walcott's Pantomime -- Chapter 5 Marvelous Realism, Feminism, and Mulatto Aesthetics: Erna Brodber's Myal -- Chapter 6 East Indian/West Indian: Racial Stereotype, Hosay, and the Politics of National Space -- Chapter 7 Facing the Music: Gender, Race, and Dougla Poetics -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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