Caribbeing : : comparing Caribbean literatures and cultures / / edited by Kristian Van Haesendonck and Theo D'haen ; Mary Louise Babineau [and twenty-two others].

From wide-ranging overviews of the entire region to close readings of specific works, this volume opens a fascinating window on the literatures and cultures of the Caribbean, covering texts in the multiplicity of languages used in the wider Caribbean: Spanish, English, French, Dutch, Portuguese, and...

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Superior document:Textxet
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 77.
Physical Description:1 online resource (329 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • CARIBBEING – SETTING A NEW COMPARATIVE AGENDA FOR CARIBBEAN STUDIES / Kristian Van Haesendonck
  • GOING CARIBBEAN, GOING GLOBAL / Theo D’haen
  • THE “DUTCH PERIOD”: A MISSING LINK IN CARIBBEAN CULTURAL HISTORY / Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger
  • THE PANAMA CANAL IN THE WORK OF ERIC WALROND AND JOAQUÍN BELEÑO: COUNTERPOINT BETWEEN THE CARIBBEAN DIASPORA AND THE PANAMANIAN NATION / Luis Pulido Ritter
  • CREATIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE POWERS OF SHAME: MOULDING CARIBBEAN WRITING AND IDEOLOGY / Aart G. Broek
  • MEMORY OF TRAUMA AND TRAUMA OF MEMORY IN THE LITERARY AND CINEMATOGRAPHIC WORKS OF PATRICK CHAMOISEAU / Savrina Chinien
  • THE CULTURAL FRAGMENTATION OF CINEMATIC VODOU / Christian Remse
  • CARIBBEAN NEW YORK: UNCANNY URBAN SPACE / Erica L. Johnson
  • GEOGRAPHICAL EMBODIMENTS: RE-MAKING URBAN CARIBBEAN CARTOGRAPHIES THROUGH ART FROM SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / Carlos Garrido Castellano
  • GLITTERING SEA OR MIRAGE: ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF THE CARIBBEAN ENVIRONMENT / Jesús Varela-Zapata
  • THE SUGAR PLANTATION AS A PLACE OF CARIBBEAN IDENTITY: A LITERARY FOCUS / Giulia De Sarlo
  • THE ORIGINS OF MAN: CONTEMPORARY LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF MASCULINITY IN THE CARIBBEAN / Wendy McMahon
  • LOST DAUGHTERS OF THE CARIBBEAN: CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY BY HISPANIC AND FRANCOPHONE WOMEN IN THE CARIBBEAN DIASPORA / Mary Louise Babineau
  • “THIS THOSE SLAVES MUST HAVE KNOWN WHO WERE MY MOTHERS”: WOMEN WHO LIVE BY THEIR OWN RULES IN DIONNE BRAND’S LAND TO LIGHT ON / Shoshannah Ganz and Stephanie McKenzie
  • BURNING LANDSCAPES, ISLANDS ON FIRE: MARIE-ELENA JOHN’S UNBURNABLE AND JEAN RHYS’ WIDE SARGASSO SEA / Manuela Esposito
  • SHATTERED HEADS: ON THE EARLIEST DUTCH WEST INDIAN MIGRANT’S TEXT / Michiel Van Kempen
  • THE (RE)WRITING OF SLAVERY’S ARCHIVES IN PATRICK CHAMOISEAU / Eurídice Figueiredo
  • ATROCITY, RECOLLECTED / Greg Mullins
  • THE REAL YU DI KORSOU: MIGRANT CONSTRUCTION OF CURAÇAOAN CULTURAL IDENTITY THROUGH PERFORMANCE / Guiselle Starink-Martha
  • REPRESENTATION, TRANSLATION AND CROSS-CULTURALISM IN MACUNAIMA AND THE VENTRILOQUIST’S TALE / Miguel Nenevé and Roseli Siepamann
  • “TOUTE PAROLE EST UNE TERRE”: TRANSLATING THE POETICS OF ÉDOUARD GLISSANT AND DEREK WALCOTT / Claire Bisdorff
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX OF NAMES
  • Appeared earlier in the TEXTXET series.