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
• 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.: 9910810220603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II