Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean

Narratives, Aesthetics, Politics

• Author(s): Wiebke Beushausen, Miriam Brandel, Joseph T. Farquharson,
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business
• Pages: 290
• ISBN_10: 0415789494
  ISBN_13: 9780415789493
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Military / Revolutions & Wars of Independence , History / Caribbean & West Indies / General , Political Science / General , Political Science / History & Theory , Political Science / International Relations / General , Social Science / Customs & Traditions , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... Using folklore to challenge contemporary social norms : Papa Bois, Mama D'Lo, and environmentalism in Caribbean literature / Giselle Liza Anatol -- Shadows pass the surface : decolonial (re)configurations of indigenous presence in Merle Collins's The colour of forgetting / Geoffrey MacDonald -- Acts of translanguaging and marooning as forms of resistance in French Caribbean literature / Paula Prescod -- From anti-colonial to anti-modernist fesistance : historiopoetic transformations of the maroon in selected works of Édouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant / Sarah Gröning -- Cultures of resistance : dialectical images of the Haitian revolution in Haitian culture and literature / Patrick Eser -- Postcolonial poetics : El reino de este mundo and the resistance of lo real maravilloso / Marius Littschwager -- Caribbean activism for slavery reparations : an overview / Claudia Rauhut -- Debated existences, claimed histories : black indigenous women's diasporic lives in Costa Rica / Christina Schramm -- Una universidad tomada : resistance performances in the (re)construction of spaces of resistance and contention during the first wave of the 2010-2011 University of Puerto Rico student movement / Alessandra Rosa -- Troubling our intersections : a Caribbean feminist methodology as resistance approach / Andrea N. Baldwin and Marva Cossy -- Practices of resistance and cyberfeminism in Cuba / Sandra Abd'Allah-Álvarez Ramírez -- Racism vs. socialism in Cuba : a misplaced conflict (notes on/against internal colonialism) / Roberto Zurbano Torres -- "Let us be Moors" : conversion to Islam in Cuba / Ilja Labischinski -- Thinking resistance : critique and resistance in the philosophical concepts of Foucault and in the postcolonial and decolonial theories of Bhabha and Mignolo / Marita Rainsborough