Crossroads of Colonial Cultures : Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution / / Gesine Müller

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910272346903321
• Autore: Müller Gesine
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2018
• ISBN: 3-11-049233-4; 3-11-049541-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367)
• Disciplina: 440
• Soggetti: Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: general; Social & cultural history; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- I Introduction -- II Literature and the Colonial Question -- III Literary Snapshots of the In-Between -- IV Processes of Ethnological Circulation -- V The Imperial Dimension of French Romanticism: Asymmetrical Relationalities -- VI Transcaribbean Dimensions: New Orleans as the Center of French-speaking Circulation Processes -- VII Excursus: Paradigm Change within Historical Caribbean Research and Its Narrative Representation -- VIII Knowledge about Conviviality, or on the Relevance of Research into the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean -- IX Conclusion -- X Works Cited -- Afterword
• Sommario/riassunto: The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated period of transition: from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery in Cuba (1789-1886). The comparison of cultural transfer processes by means of literary production from and about the Caribbean, embedded in a broader context of the circulation of culture and knowledge deciphers the different transculturations of European discourses in the colonies as well as the repercussions of these transculturations on the motherland's ideas of the colonial other: The ; loss of a culturally binding centre in the case of the Spanish colonies - in contrast to France's strong presence and binding force - is accompanied by a multirelationality which increasingly shapes hispanophone Caribbean literature and promotes the pursuit for political independence.The book provides necessary revision to the idea that the 19th-century Caribbean can only be understood as an outpost of the European metropolises. Examining the kaleidoscope of the colonial Caribbean opens new insights into the early processes of cultural globalisation and questions our established concept of a genuine western modernity. Updated and expanded translation of Die koloniale Karibik. Transferprozesse in hispanophonen und frankophonen Literaturen, De Gruyter (mimesis 53), 2012

Peace and freedom [[electronic resource] ] : the civil rights and antiwar movements in the 1960s / / Simon Hall

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781733703321
• Autore: Hall Simon <1976->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005
• ISBN: 1-283-21168-8; 9786613211682; 0-8122-0213-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Collana: Politics and culture in modern America
• Disciplina: 959.704/3/08996073
• Soggetti: African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century; Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century; African Americans - Politics and government - 20th century; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Protest movements; Peace movements - United States - History - 20th century; United States Race relations; United States Social conditions 1960-1980; United States Politics and government 1963-1969
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-253) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Organizing Tradition -- Chapter 2. Black Power -- Chapter 3. Black Moderates -- Chapter 4. Racial Tensions -- Chapter 5. Radicalism and Respectability -- Chapter 6. New Coalitions, Old Problems -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Two great social causes held center stage in American politics in the 1960's: the civil rights movement and the antiwar groundswell in the face of a deepening American military commitment in Vietnam. In Peace and Freedom, Simon Hall explores two linked themes: the civil rights movement's response to the war in Vietnam on the one hand and, on the other, the relationship between the black groups that opposed the war and the mainstream peace movement. Based on comprehensive archival research, the book weaves together local and national stories to offer an illuminating and judicious chronicle of these movements, demonstrating how their increasingly radicalized components both found common cause and provoked mutual antipathies. Peace and Freedom shows how and why the civil rights movement responded to the war in differing ways-explaining black militants' hostility toward the war while also providing a sympathetic treatment of those organizations and leaders reluctant to take a stand. And, while Black Power, counter culturalism, and left-wing factionalism all made interracial coalition-building more difficult, the book argues that it was the peace movement's reluctance to link the struggle to end the war with the fight against racism at home that ultimately prevented the two movements from cooperating more fully. Considering the historical relationship between the civil rights movement and foreign policy, Hall also offers an in-depth look at the history of black America's links with the American left and with pacifism. With its keen insights into one of the most controversial decades in American history, Peace and Freedom recaptures the immediacy and importance of the time.