Caribbean Discourse

Author: Édouard Glissant
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813913735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
Selected essays from the rich and complex collection of Edouard Glissant, one of the most prominent writers and intellectuals of the Caribbean, examine the psychological, sociological, and philosophical implications of cultural dependency.

Caribbean Discourse

Author: Édouard Glissant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Poetics of Relation

Author: Édouard Glissant
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472066292
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English

Monsieur Toussaint

Author: Edouard Glissant
Publisher: Three Continents Press
ISBN: 9780894108709
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 127

Book Description
Edouard Glissant's Monsieur Toussaint tells the tragic story of Toussaint Louverture, the charismatic leader of the revolution - the only successful slave revolt in history - that led to Haiti's independence two-hundred years ago. Translated by the author himself in collaboration with J. Michael Dash, this new edition captures the striking essence of the original French play (first published in 1961).

The Other America

Author: J. Michael Dash
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813917641
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
A wide-ranging work that explores two centuries of Caribbean literature from a comparative perspective. While haunted by the need to establish cultural difference and authenticity, Caribbean thought is inherently modernist in its recognition of the interplay between cultures, brought about by centuries of contact, domination, and consent.

Writing Gender Into The Caribbean

Author: Patricia Mohammed
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912662333
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720

Book Description
The revolutionary act of imprinting gender into Caribbean thought is celebrated by Patricia Mohammed as she brings together decades worth of her critical essays that have influenced directions in feminism and in social thinking. In the face of narratives that cast shadows on the value of evolutionary progress, Mohammed encourages us to take pause and recognise how far gender scholars and feminists have come in leaving the world more gender equitable than we found it.

An Absence of Ruins

Author: Orlando Patterson
Publisher: Caribbean Modern Classics
ISBN: 9781845231040
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Through the tangled love life of one Alexander Blackman, Orlando Patterson offers up a devastating critique of middle-class pretension, turning instead to the vibrant realities of the Jamaican working class. Full of sardonic humour and social commentary, the novel looks into the dark heart of social hierarchy, colonial education and the impact both have on the individual and the many.

Reimagining the Caribbean

Author: Valérie K. Orlando
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739194208
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213

Book Description
This volume brings together scholars working in different languages—Creole, French, English, Spanish—and modes of cultural production—literature, art, film, music—to suggest how best to model courses that impart the rich, vibrant, and multivalent aspects of the Caribbean in the classroom. Essays focus on discussing how best to cross languages, histories, and modes of discourse. Instead of relying on available paradigms that depend on Western ways of thinking, the essays recommend methods to develop a pan-Caribbean perspective in relation to notions of the self, uses of language, gender hierarchies, and ideas of nationhood. Contributors represent various disciplines, work in one of the several languages of the Caribbean, and offer essays that reflect different cadres of expertise.

Sun of Consciousness

Author: EDOUARD. GLISSANT
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937658953
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description

Literary Transnationalism(s)

Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004370862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
Literary Transnationalism(s) offers a series of reflections on how literary texts move between cultures via translation, adaptation, and intertextual referencing, and enter the field of world literature.