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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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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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"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