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1 online resource (481 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- Section 1 -- Methodological Considerations -- Deadening, Voyeuristic and Reiterative?Problems of Representation in Caribbean Research -- Flying Away and Grounds for Concern: Mobility, Location and Ethical Discomfort in Researching Caribbean History from the UK -- The Importance of Reflexivity in Caribbean Research: Thinking through 'Race', Self and Politics -- Textualising Slavery: From 'Slave' to 'Enslaved People'in Caribbean Historiography -- Section 2 -- History, Migration |
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The Other Sideof Slave Revolts -- More than Producers and Reproducers: Jamaican Slave Women's Dance and Song -- Caribbean Migration and Adjustment to Canada: Pursuing the Mobility Dream 1900-1998 -- 'Blacks in Ivory Towers Can't Write about Ghettos'1:West Indian Worker Writers in 1970s Britain. -- Inbetweenity: Marginalisation, Migration and Poverty among Haitians in the Turks and Caicos Islands -- Section 3 -- Tourism -- Postmodernity or Profitability? Changing Modes of Tourism in Jamaica. -- Natural Hedonism:The Invention of Caribbean Islands as Tropical Playgrounds |
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Sleeping with the Enemy: Jineterismo, 'Cultural Level' and 'Antisocial Behaviour' in 1990s Cuba -- All Sights Reserved: All-Inclusive Resorts and the ImaginedCaribbean -- Section 4 -- Governance & Politics -- Cracks in the Kingdom of the Netherlands: An Inside Story -- The Transatlantic Banana War and the Marginalisation of Caribbean Trading Interests -- The Impact of Globalisation on the CaribbeanSugar and Banana Industries -- Section 5 -- Visual & Material Culture -- Dis-Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century. The Voyage of the Sable Venus: Connoisseurship and the Trivialising of Slavery |
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The Impact of Indian Film in Trinidad -- A Good Kicker: Analysing Script and Screen with Adolescent Boys in Jamaica -- A Philosophy of Survival: Anancyism in Jamaican Pantomime -- Section 6 -- Literature of The Caribbean & its Diaspora -- The Corporeal and the Sensual in Two Novels by Shani Mootoo and Julia Alvarez -- Representations of Deference and Defiance in the Novels of Caryl Phillips. -- Re-inventing Jamaican History: Roger Mais and George William Gordon -- Forging Subjectivity in the Jamaican-British Borderlands: Emotion and Identity in Joan Riley's The Unbelonging |
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'A Strange Synchronicity': The Language of Landscapes in Lawrence Scott's Aelred's Sin -- Contributors -- Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
National characteristics, Caribbean.
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National characteristics, Caribbean.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789766376475 |
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9766376476 |
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