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Titolo: | Caribbean without borders : beyond the Can[n]on's range / / edited by María del Carmen Quintero Aguiló [and four others] |
Pubblicazione: | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015 |
©2015 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.44 |
Soggetto topico: | Language and culture - Caribbean Area |
Anthropological linguistics - Caribbean Area | |
Soggetto geografico: | Caribbean Area Languages |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Persona (resp. second.): | del Carmen Quintero AguilóMaría |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | One of the most salient issues in Caribbean studies is the region's linguistic and cultural fragmentation as a result of European colonization. More than five centuries later, the islands and American countries whose shores touch the Caribbean Sea still echo such maladies. The title of this book is a call towards unity, a unity that, in the words of Barbadian poet, historian and critic Kamau Brathwaite, "is submarine." In the past, nations' borders were established based on the distance a cannon ball was able to cover when fired from land out to sea. It is time to go beyond the cannon ball dis |
Titolo autorizzato: | Caribbean without borders |
ISBN: | 1-4438-8135-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910479945603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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