Caribbean Migrations : The Legacies of Colonialism / / Anke Birkenmaier
| Caribbean Migrations : The Legacies of Colonialism / / Anke Birkenmaier |
| Autore | Birkenmaier Anke |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
Arroyo-MartinezJossianna
BensonDevyn Spence BirkenmaierAnke BryceJane ChamberlainEdward DirksenRebecca DomínguezDaylet DuanyJorge HalloranVivian JayaramKiran C LópezIraida H MaguireEmily A MayesApril J MiguelYolanda Martinez-San PortesAlejandro RojasRafael Vargas-RamosCarlos VérilusKendy |
| Collana | Critical Caribbean Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Postcolonialism - Caribbean Area
West Indians - Migration |
| ISBN |
1-9788-1453-4
9781978814509 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction an otherwise modern archive on migration -- 1 A Permanent Periphery: Caribbean Migration Flows and the World Economy -- PART I Unincorporated Subjects (Puerto Rico, Guam) -- 2 The Role of State Actors in Puerto Rico’s Long Century of Migration, 1899–2015 -- 3 “May God Take Me to Orlando”: The Puerto Rican Exodus to Florida before and after Hurricane Maria -- 4 Caribbean Mediascapes: Ruins and Debt in Puerto Rico -- 5 Circumscribed Citizenship: Caribbean American Visibility -- 6 From Father to Humanitarian: Charting Intimacies and Discontinuities in Ricky Martin’s Social Media Presence and Writing -- 7 Terripelagoes: Archipelagic Thinking in Culebra, Puerto Rico, and Guam -- PART II TECHNOLOGIES OF REPRESENTATION (CUBA, JAMAICA) -- 8 The Caribbean in the U.S. Imagination: Travel Writing, Annexation, and Slavery -- 9 Contemporary Afrocubana Feminisms: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Havana -- 10 Going Back to Cuba: How Enclaves of Memory Stimulate Returns and Repatriations -- 11 The Floating Generation: Cuban Art in the Post-Soviet Period, 1991–2017 -- 12 “It Would Make a Rat Puke”: Diasporic Thinking in Contemporary Jamaican Art Practices -- PART III LANGUAGES OF THE DIASPORA (HISPANIOLA, UNITED STATES) -- 13 Kreyòl Sung, Kreyòl Understood: Haitian Songwriter BIC (Roosevelt Saillant) Reflects on Language and Poetics -- 14 Migration and Its Discontents: The Dominican Films of Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas -- 15 Transnational Hispaniola: The First Decade in Support of a New Paradigm for Haitian and Dominican Studies -- 16 New Points of the Rhizome: Rethinking Caribbean Relation in U.S. Latinx Poetry -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794214403321 |
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| New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Diaspora & returns in fiction / / guest editors: Helen Cousins & Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo; editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu ; assistant editor: Patricia T. Emenyonu ; associate editors: Jane Bryce [and six others] ; reviews editor : Obi Nwakanma
| Diaspora & returns in fiction / / guest editors: Helen Cousins & Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo; editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu ; assistant editor: Patricia T. Emenyonu ; associate editors: Jane Bryce [and six others] ; reviews editor : Obi Nwakanma |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Woodbridge, Suffolk : , : James Currey is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd., , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 809/.896 |
| Collana | African literature today |
| Soggetto topico |
African literature - History and criticism
Emigration and immigration in literature Return migration in literature |
| ISBN | 1-78204-858-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- EDITORIAL ARTICLE -- ARTICLES -- Alienation & Disorientation in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments -- Wait No Longer?: The Temporality of Return in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments -- ‘Our Relationship to Spirits’: History & Return in Syl Cheney-Coker’s The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar -- The ‘Rubble’ & the ‘Secret Sorrows’: Returning to Somalia in Nuruddin Farah’s Links & Crossbones -- Migration, Cultural Memory & Identity in Benjamin Kwakye’s The Other Crucifix -- No Place Like Home: Failures of Feeling & the Impossibility of Return in Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears -- ‘The Backward Glance’: Repetition & Return in Pede Hollist’s So the Path Does Not Die -- Negotiating Race, Identity & Homecoming in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah & Pede Hollist’s So the Path Does Not Die -- The Problem of Return in the Local Gambian Bildungsroman -- Returns ‘Home’: Constructing Belonging in Black British Literature – Evans, Evaristo & Oyeyemi -- ‘Zimbabweanness Today’: An Interview with Tendai Huchu -- FEATURED ARTICLES -- Remembering Early Issues of African Literature Today -- African Literature Today. Its History, Story, Impact & Continuing Journey* -- On African Literature Today -- LITERARY SUPPLEMENT -- REVIEWS -- Eds Xavier Garnier & Pierre Halen, Littératures africaines et paysage -- Mukoma wa Ngugi, Mrs. Shaw (A Novel) -- Elleke Boehmer, The Shouting in the Dark -- Ernest Emenyonu, Princess Mmaeyen and Other Stories -- Dayo Olopade, The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa |
| Altri titoli varianti | Diaspora and returns in fiction |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910151575503321 |
| Woodbridge, Suffolk : , : James Currey is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd., , 2016 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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