This shipwreck of fragments : historical memory, imaginary identities, and postcolonial geography in Caribbean culture and literature /

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In light of, and in response to, the popular perception of the Caribbean as an epitome of cultural hybridity and improvisation, this book seeks to further examine Caribbean cultural identities along the lines of race, class, nationalism, and history. Drawing on a variety of genres of literature and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hsiao, Li-Chun
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
Subjects:
Caribbean literature > History and criticism.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Littérature antillaise > Histoire et critique.
Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Ethnicité dans la littérature.
Nationalisme dans la littérature.
Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism.
Cultural studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Caribbean literature
Ethnicity in literature
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Nationalism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Li-Chun Hsiao
  • Remembering Toussaint, rethinking postcolonial: the Haitian revolution and the writing of historical trauma in the Caribbean / Li-Chun Hsiao
  • Unveiling the mask: race, nationhood, and caribeñidad in "La tierra y el cielo" / Sheree Henlon
  • The music, the artist, and the aficionado: tracing the role of race and class in Caribbean popular music through literature / Kathleen Costello
  • Negrismo and négritude in the reshaping of Caribbean cultural identity / Mamadou Badiane.

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