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Trinidad noir
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ISBN: 9781933354552 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York : Akashic Books,

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Trinidad Noir delivers all the crime a reader expects from Akashic's Noir Series: murder, kidnapping, rape, drugs, prostitution, theft, extortion, and more. Yet in fictionalizing crime in the real crime setting of Trinidad, acclaimed authors Lawrence Scott, Robert Antoni, Elizabeth Nunez, Ramabai Espinet, Keith Jardim, Tiphanie Yanique, Willi Chen, and others have created a decidedly literary noir collection.


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Caribbean literature after independence : the case of Earl Lovelace
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ISBN: 9781900039918 Year: 2008 Publisher: London : Institute for the Study of Americas,

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Trinidad, historically located at the crossroads of the Americas, has produced an incomparable national literature, fashioning literary genres that have informed the Caribbean region as a whole. One of the greatest contemporary Trinidadian writers is Earl Lovelace, whose novelistic performative epics combine the rhythms of steelband and calypso with the narrative complexity of Faulkner. Lovelace was an early enthusiast for Black Power and remains an indefatigable critic of the inequalities bequeathed by the post-Independence state. Embracing an aesthetic which seeks out the darkness of the nation – the traces of Africa, the passions of the black dispossessed, the liturgies of the Shouter churches – he strives to imagine a society which might at last break free from its colonial past, dramatizing the political and psychic struggles of the poor for selfhood.

Preventive detention and security law : a comparative survey
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ISBN: 0792324323 9004479457 9780792324324 9789004479456 Year: 1994 Volume: 31 Publisher: Dordrecht : Martinus Nijhoff,

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Trinidad carnival : the cultural politics of a transnational festival
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ISBN: 9780253218834 9780253348234 Year: 2007 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

Spirits, blood, and drums : the Orisha religion in Trinidad.
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ISBN: 1566393493 1566393507 Year: 1995 Publisher: Philadelphia Temple university press

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"Valuable, well-presented study examines background, rites and ceremonies, and social organization of Orisha religion, 'arguably the most purely African cultural practice left on the island.' However, worshipers combine, in varying degrees, elements from five traditions - African, Catholic, Hindu, Protestant, and Kabbalah - to form an 'Afro-American religious complex.'"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

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