Research Catalog

Title

Beyond the blood, the beach & the banana : new perspectives in Caribbean studies / edited by Sandra Courtman.

Publication

Kingston, Jamaica : Ian Randle, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Courtman, Sandra.

Description

xxvi, 454 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Beyond the blood, the beach, and the banana

Subject

• Caribbean Area > History
• Caribbean Area > Social conditions
• Caribbean Area > Politics and government

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Deadening, voyeuristic and reiterative? Problems of representation in Caribbean research / David Lambert -- Flying away and grounds for concern : mobility, location and ethical discomfort in researching Caribbean history from the UK / Christer Petley -- The importance of reflexivity in Caribbean research : thinking through 'race', self and politics / Tracey Skelton -- Textualising slavery : from 'slave' to 'enslaved people' in Caribbean historiography / John F. Campbell -- The other side of slave revolts / Gelien Matthews -- More than producers and reproducers : Jamaican slave women's dance and song / Henrice Altink -- Caribbean migration and adjustment to Canada : pursuing the mobility dream 1900-1998 / Dwaine Plaza -- 'Blacks in ivory towers can't write about ghettos' : West Indian worker writers in 1970s Britain / Sandra Courtman -- Inbetweenity : marginalisation, migration and poverty among Haitians in the Turks and Caicos Islands / Dennis A.V. Brown -- Postmodernity or profitability? Changing modes of tourism in Jamaica / David R. Dodman -- Natural hedonism : the invention of Caribbean Islands as tropical playgrounds / Mimi Sheller -- Sleeping with the enemy' : Jineterismo, 'cultural level' and 'antisocial behaviour' in 1990s Cuba / Mette Louise Berg -- All sights reserved : all-inclusive resorts and the imagined Caribbean / Gavan Titley -- Cracks in the kingdom of the Netherlands : an inside story / Lammert de Jong -- The translatlantic banana war and the marginalisation of Caribbean trading interests / Peter Clegg -- The impact of globalisation on the Caribbean sugar and banana industries / Belel Ahmed -- Dis-ordering the world in the eighteenth-century : the voyage of the Sable Venus : connoisseurship and the trivialising of slavery / Rosalie Smith McCrea -- The impact of Indian film in Trinadad / Lynne Macedo -- A good kicker : analysing script and screen with adolescent boys in Jamaica / Beth Cross -- A philosophy of survival : anancyism in Jamaican pantomime / Ruth Minott Egglestone -- The corporeal and the sensual in two novels by Shani Mootoo and Julia Alvarez / Angela Brüning -- Representations of deference and defiance in the novels of Caryl Phillips / John Ford -- Re-inventing Jamaican history : Roger Mais and George William Gordon / Karina Williamson -- Forging subjectivity in the Jamaican-British borderlands : emotion and identity in Joan Riley's The unbelonging / Barbara Shaw Perry -- 'A strange synchronicity' : the language of landscapes in Lawrence Scott's Aelred's sin / Emily Wroe.

Call Number

Sc E 05-790

ISBN

• 9766371822 (pbk.)
• 0975352954

OCLC

56656986

Title

Beyond the blood, the beach & the banana : new perspectives in Caribbean studies / edited by Sandra Courtman.

Imprint

Kingston, Jamaica : Ian Randle, 2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Courtman, Sandra.

Research Call Number

Sc E 05-790