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"The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico"--
Caribbean literature (Spanish) --- History and criticism. --- Haiti --- West Indies --- Relations
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Given the welcomed shift throughout the academy away from essentialist and biologically fixed understandings of ""race"" and the body, it is a curiosity worth exploring that so many sophisticated-and even radical-narratives retain physical and behavioral heredity as a guiding trope. The persistence of this concept in Caribbean literature informs not only discourses on race, ethnicity, and sexuality, but also conceptions of personal and regional identity in a postcolonial societies once dominated by slavery and the plantation. In this book, Rudyard Alcocer offers a theory of Caribbean narrative
Caribbean fiction (Spanish) --- Caribbean fiction --- Heredity in literature. --- Caribbean literature --- Spanish fiction --- Caribbean literature (Spanish) --- History and criticism.
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While vulnerability thus addresses the role historically played by race in determining systems of social and political powerlessness, it prefigures other ways in which Caribbeanness is currently negotiated at local and international levels, ranging from the stigmatization of the ill to the global fetishization of the region's physical beauty, material degradation, and political stagnation.Positioned at the intersection of literary and anthropological study, Vulnerable States will appeal to Caribbeanists of the three major language areas of the region as well as to postcolonial scholars interested in issues of race, gender, and nation formation.
Fiction --- Spanish-American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Caribbean Area --- Caribbean area --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Caribbean & Latin American --- Caribbean fiction (Spanish) --- Romance Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- Spanish Literature --- Spanish fiction --- Caribbean literature (Spanish) --- History and criticism --- Région caraïbe --- Littérature antillaise --- Roman
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Figueroa-Vásquez analyzes Afro-Latinx and Afro-Hispanic artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba, revealing the thematic, conceptual, and liberatory tools these artists offer when read in relation to one another.
Caribbean literature (Spanish) --- Equatorial Guinean literature (Spanish) --- African diaspora in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Spanish literature --- Equatorial Guinean literature --- Caribbean literature --- History and criticism --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- African diaspora in literature. --- History and criticism.
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The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity: Negrismo and Négritude looks primarily at Negrismo and Négritude through the eyes of the poetry of Nicolas Guillén, Manuel del Cabral, and Palés Matos as well as Léopold Senghor, Léon-Gontran Damas, and Aimé Césaire. The book shows Caribbean cultural identity as a slippery and fluctuating zone.
Caribbean poetry --- Caribbean literature --- Caribbean poetry (Spanish) --- Caribbean poetry (French) --- Negritude (Literary movement) --- Blacks --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- French poetry --- Caribbean literature (French) --- Spanish poetry --- Caribbean literature (Spanish) --- History and criticism. --- Black authors --- African influences. --- Race identity --- History and criticism --- Sociology of literature --- French literature (outside France) --- Spanish-American literature --- Africa --- Caribbean area --- Black persons --- Black people
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The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia successfully covers the popular to the esoteric.The Encyclopedia is an invaluable reference resource for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature as well
860 <03> --- 860 <8> --- 860 <8> Spaanse literatuur: Zuid-Amerika --- Spaanse literatuur: Zuid-Amerika --- 860 <03> Spaanse literatuur--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- Spaanse literatuur--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- Caribbean literature (Spanish) - 20th century - History and criticism. --- Latin American literature - Encyclopedias. --- Spanish American literature. --- Spanish American literature - 20th century - History and criticism. --- Latin American literature --- Caribbean literature --- Romance Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- Spanish Literature --- Littérature latino-américaine --- Littérature antillaise --- Encyclopedias --- Encyclopédies --- Encyclopedias.
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"Celis ha seleccionado un corpus de textos preciso y contundente, que muestra con claridad las políticas patriarcales sobre sexualidad y cuerpo de las jóvenes y niñas [...] Un libro magnífico, importante, que hace sustanciales aportes al campo no solo de los estudios del Caribe hispano, sino a los de la cultura de género latinoamericana" (Beatriz González Stephan, Rice University). Libro ganador del Premio Montserrat Ordóñez de la sección Colombia de Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 2016 por decisión unánime y del 2017 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award otorgado por la Caribbean Philosophical Association. Mención de Honor del Premio Iberoamericano LASA 2016.
Body image in literature. --- Girls in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Caribbean literature (Spanish) --- Body image in girls --- Sexism --- Girls --- Women --- La imagen corporal en la literatura. --- Niñas en la literatura. --- Rol del sexo en la literatura. --- Literatura caribeña (español) --- Imagen corporal en niñas --- Sexismo --- Niñas --- Mujeres --- Children --- Females --- Young women --- Sex bias --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Prejudices --- Sex (Psychology) --- Social perception --- Sex role --- Spanish literature --- Caribbean literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Themes, motives. --- Social conditions. --- Mujeres escritoras --- Historia y crítica. --- Temas, motivos. --- Condiciones sociales. --- Psychology
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The self-referential function of these texts produces a "museum effectthat simultaneously teaches and entertains their readers, prompting them to continue their own research beyond and outside the text.
Postmodernism (Literature) --- Caribbean fiction (Spanish) --- Caribbean fiction (French) --- Caribbean fiction (English) --- Slavery --- Archives in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- Caribbean fiction --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Spanish fiction --- Caribbean literature (Spanish) --- French fiction --- Caribbean literature (French) --- English fiction --- Caribbean literature (English) --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Caribbean literature --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- History and criticism. --- History --- Sources. --- Caribbean Area --- In literature. --- Enslaved persons --- Enslaved persons in literature --- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- Esclavage --- Archives --- Région caraïbe --- Littérature antillaise de langue française --- Littérature antillaise de langue espagnole --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire
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