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THIS INTERDISCIPLINARY VOLUME on postcolonial Caribbean
culture brings together ten essays by exciting young
scholars who challenge some of the established assumptions
of postcolonial studies. The contributors look at ways in
which the "romance" trope is employed within contemporary
Caribbean popular culture and literature to idealize the
newly independent, postcolonial societies of the region.
The essays situate this discourse of idealization in its
historical and cultural contexts and reveal how it is a
reinvention of the old romance ../images initially
constructed in the imperial imagination of Europe and
America.
Contents:
- Introduction: "The Caribbean: Myths, Tropes,
Discourses," Belinda Edmondson, Rutgers University
- "Canonized Hybridities, Resistant Hybridities:
Chutney Soca, Carnival, and the Politics of Nationalism,"
Shalini Puri, University of Pittsburgh
- "Soca and Social Formations: Avoiding the Romance of
Culture in Trinidad," Stefano Harney, Pace
University
- "Trinidad Romance: The Invention of Jamaican
Carnival," Belinda Edmondson
- "All That Is Black Melts into Air: Negritud and
Nation in Puerto Rico," Catherine Den Tandt, University
of Alberta
- "Positive Vibration?: Capitalist Textual Hegemony and
Bob Marley," Mike Alleyne, Florida A & M
University
- "'Titid ak pèp la se marasa': Jean-Bertrand
Aristide and the New National Romance in Haiti," Kevin
Meehan, University of Central Florida
- "Shadowboxing in the Mangrove: The Politics of
Identity in Postcolonial Martinique," Richard Price and
Sally Price, College of William and Mary
- "Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice
White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of
Trinidad," Faith Smith, Brandeis University
- "Homing Instincts: Immigrant Nostalgia and Gender
Politics in Brown Girl, Brownstones," Supriya Nair,
Tulane University
- "Derek Walcott: Liminal Spaces/Substantive
Histories," Tejumola Olaniyan, University of
Virginia
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"This collection offers perhaps the first systematic
critique--and deconstruction--of some of the central
categories in postcolonial theory in general and Caribbean
cultural and literary studies in particular. The
contributors, by writing on English, French, and Spanish
speaking Caribbean countries, succeed in overcoming one of
the major handles in the study of the literatures and
cultures of the region--the barriers set up by colonial
languages. This book brings a fresh perspective to Caribbean
studies and takes its popular culture beyond tourist
art."--Simon Gikandi, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor
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