Title Caribbean without borders : beyond the can(n)on's range / edited by María del Carmen Quintero Aguiló, Gabriel J. Jiménez Fuentes, Marisol Joseph Haynes, Gabriel Mejía González, and Diana Ursulin Mopsus

Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 299 pages) Summary One of the most salient issues in Caribbean studies is the region's linguistic and cultural fragmentation as a result of European colonization. More than five centuries later, the islands and American countries whose shores touch the Caribbean Sea still echo such maladies. The title of this book is a call towards unity, a unity that, in the words of Barbadian poet, historian and critic Kamau Brathwaite, "is submarine." In the past, nations' borders were established based on the distance a cannon ball was able to cover when fired from land out to sea. It is time to go beyond the cannon ball distances out into uncharted territories, beyond the canon, and, thus, beyond the cannon's range. This book features a selection of essays presented at the fifth annual Caribbean Without Borders conference at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. It critically delves into the fields of linguistics, history, literature, philosophy, politics, feminism, cultural studies, music, film, and art, among many others, as a means to re-visit, re-view, re-envision, re-read, re-interpret, and thus re-create a Caribbean aesthetics that looks to submarine unity, a unity that defies spatial, temporal, and social borders. The book conveys the limitless nature of the Caribbean and its rich culture, making it an appealing transdisciplinary source for a multidisciplinary academic audience Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Text in English and Spanish Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 20, 2015) Subject Language and culture -- Caribbean Area -- Congresses Anthropological linguistics -- Caribbean Area -- Congresses Areal linguistics -- Congresses Linguistics. Literary studies: post-colonial literature. Interdisciplinary studies. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Anthropological linguistics Areal linguistics Language and culture Language and languages SUBJECT Caribbean Area -- Languages -- Congresses Subject Caribbean Area Genre/Form proceedings (reports) Literary criticism Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Literary criticism. Actes de congrès. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book Author Quintero Aguiló, María del Carmen, editor ISBN 144388135X 9781443881357

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