The Caribbean Postcolonial

Social Equality, Post/Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-349-52662-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 400 g

Drawing on the long and varied history of discourses of cultural hybridity across the caribbean, this book explores the rich and fraught cultural crossings that are often theorized homogeneously in postcolonial studies as 'hybridity'. What is the relationship of cultural hybridity to social equality? Why have some forms of hybridity been enshrined in the caribbean imagination and others disavowed? What is the appeal of cultural hybridity to nationalist and post-nationalist projects alike? What can we learn from the hybridization of Afro-caribbean and Indo-caribbean cultures set in motion by slavery and indentureship? In answering these questions, this book intervenes in several important debates in postcolonial studies about cultural resistance and popular agency, feminism and cultural nationalism, the relations between postmodernism and postcolonialism, and the status of nationalism in an age of globalization.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Puri, Shalini

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION PART I: CRITIQUE AND METHODOLOGY Theorizing Hybridity: The Post-Nationalist Moment Theorizing Hybridity: Caribbean Nationalisms PART II: ALTERNATIVES AND AESTHETICS Manifestos of Desire: Hybridity as Forced Poetics Beyond Resistance: Rehearsing Oppositional Agency in Derek Walcott's Pantomime Marvelous Realism, Feminism, and Mulatto Aesthetics Erna Brodber's Myal East Indian/West Indian: Racial Stereotype, Hosay, and the Politics of National Space Facing the Music: Gender, Race, and a Dougla Poetics

Über Autor(innen)

Shalini Puri is Associate Professor of English at the University Pittsburgh, USA.