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Las ciudades del deseo explores the representations of gender, sexuality, and urban space in contemporary narratives from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. By examining a corpus of novels published since 2000, this book shows how the changes in urban landscape create a new image of the city that destroys traditional gender roles and produces different discourses on sexuality. At moments of crisis in political agendas that took place between 1990 and 2000, queer subjects became spokespeople outlining new national projects on each island, while claiming space in the national imaginary. The nation is no longer built on blood ties, patriarchal norms, or biological procreation, but rather starts incorporating previously excluded racial identities and sexual practices. By juxtaposing the narratives of the three countries and putting into dialogue the topics of nationality, sexuality, urban space, and sex tourism, Las ciudades del deseo breaks away from a tradition that tends to study them separately. The book contributes new perspectives on an emerging culture of resistance to heteronormative dynamics and power structures that is developing simultaneously in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. It sheds light on larger connections between literature and LGBTQ activism in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.Las ciudades del deseo explora las representaciones del género, la sexualidad y el espacio urbano en la narrativa contemporánea de Cuba, la República Dominicana y Puerto Rico. Aportando un análisis de varias novelas publicadas después de 2000, el libro muestra cómo los cambios del paisaje urbano crean una imagen nueva de la ciudad que destruye roles de género tradicionales y produce múltiples discursos de sexualidad. Durante la crisis de las agendas políticas que sucede en 1990–2000 los sujetos queer esbozan nuevos proyectos nacionales en cada isla. La familia como metáfora de la nación deja de basarse en los lazos de sangre, normas patriarcales y procreación biológica. En cambio, empieza a incorporar identidades raciales y prácticas sexuales. Yuxtaponiendo las narrativas de los tres países y poniendo en diálogos los temas de la nación, la sexualidad, el espacio urbano y el turismo sexual, Las ciudades del deseo rompe con una tradición que tiende a explorarlos por separado. El libro contribuye a una perspectiva nueva de la emergente cultura de resistencia contra las dinámicas heteronormativas y estructuras de poder que se está desarrollando simultáneamente en los tres países y establece conexiones extensas entre la literatura y el activismo LGBTQ en el Caribe hispano.

Literature: history & criticism --- West Indies. --- Antilles --- Caribbean Islands --- Islands of the Caribbean --- Islands of the Atlantic

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) open access license. This jointly authored book extends understanding of the use of sport to address global development agendas by offering an important departure from prevailing theoretical and methodological approaches in the field. Drawing on nearly a decade of wide-ranging multidisciplinary research undertaken with young people and adults living and working in urban communities in Zambia, the book presents a localised account that locates sport for development in historical, political, economic and social context. A key feature of the book is its detailed examination of the lives, experiences and responses of young people involved in sport for development activities, drawn from their own accounts. The book's unique approach and content will be highly relevant to academic researchers and post-graduate students studying sport and development in across many different contexts.

Caribbean islands --- Sociology: sport & leisure --- History of sport --- global development --- urban communities --- development --- zambia --- community integration --- local sport --- sport --- sport for development

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Caribbean Quarterly, published since 1949, is the flagship journal of culture of the University of the West Indies. The refereed journal concerns itself with Caribbean culture in all its ramifications. It is an outlet for the publication of results of research into, and considered views on, matters Caribbean. Normally an issue contains six to eight articles of original thought, which are of general interest and relevance to the Caribbean islands and the neighbouring mainland of Central and South America. The journal comprises scholarly articles, essays, criticism, creative writing, and book reviews. An overall picture of life in one of the most culturally diverse parts of the Western hemisphere emerges with information on its culture, ethnology, history, peoples, religion and creative arts. The journal appears in March, June, September and December.

Civilization. --- West Indies --- Antilles --- West Indies. --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Barbarism --- Caribbean Islands --- Islands of the Caribbean --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- Caribbean Area --- Atlantic Ocean --- Islands of the Atlantic --- Indie Zachodnie (region) --- Història --- Carib (Regió) --- Història.

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When Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize, he was cited for ""a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment."" The lively interviews in this collection reveal Walcott's generous and brilliant intelligence as well as his strong, forthright opinions. He discusses the craft of poetry, the status of contemporary poetry and drama, his founding of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, and his views on a number of influential writers, including Eliot, Auden, Brodsky, Heaney, and Naipaul.Boldly speaking his mind, Walcott takes many controversial positions on a wide range of subjects, such as Caribbean and U.S. politics, literary instruction in American universities, the proper role of sound in modern poetry, and the ""ego"" apparent in contemporary American poetry, and problems of race. Whatever the subject, Walcott responds fully and candidly.

Authors, West Indian --- West Indian authors --- Walcott, Derek --- والكوت، ديرك --- デレク・ウォルコット --- West Indies --- Antilles --- Caribbean Islands --- Islands of the Caribbean --- Islands of the Atlantic --- Intellectual life --- Auteurs indiens d'Amérique --- Inde (ouest) --- Vie intellectuelle --- Auteurs indiens d'Amérique

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This comprehensive study of the historical archaeology of the Caribbean provides sociopolitical context for the ongoing development of national identities. Long before the founding of Jamestown in 1607, there were Spanish forts, bustling towns, sugar plantations, and sea trade flourishing in the Caribbean. While richer nations, particularly the United States, may view the Caribbean today as merely a place for sun and fun, the island colonies were at one time far more important and lucrative to their European empire countries than their North American counterparts. From t

Land settlement patterns --- Archaeology and history --- Patterns, Land settlement --- Settlement patterns --- Human geography --- Land settlement --- Historical archaeology --- History and archaeology --- History --- History. --- West Indies --- Antilles --- Caribbean Islands --- Islands of the Caribbean --- Islands of the Atlantic --- Antiquities. --- Civilization. --- Civilization --- Antiquities