Research Catalog

Title

Caribbean narratives of belonging : fields of relations, sites of identity / edited by Jean Besson and Karen Fog Olwig.

Publication

London : Macmillan Caribbean, ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Besson, Jean, 1944-
• Olwig, Karen Fog, 1948-

Description

xiii, 303 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm.

Summary

"The sixteen chapters by anthropologists, geographers, historians and sociologists are based on in-depth research from throughout the Caribbean region and among Caribbean migrants and their descendents in Europe and North America."

Series Statement

Warwick University Caribbean studies

Uniform Title

Warwick University Caribbean studies.

Subjects

• Karibik
• Ethnische Identität
• Ethnicity
• East Indians > Ethnic identity
• Caribbean Area > Ethnic identity
• East Indians > Caribbean Area > Ethnic identity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Narrative of place and displacement. Sacred sites, shifting histories : narratives of belonging, land and globalisation in the Cockpit Country, Jamaica / Jean Besson ; Narratives and the cultural construction of belonging in Sligoville, Jamaica's first free village / Yvonne Davis-Palmer -- Montserratian narratives of belonging in the midst of disaster and relocation / Tracey Skelton ; A city of meanings : place and displacement in urban Jamaican self-framings / Huon Wardle -- Narratives of inclusion and exclusion. Narratives of belonging and identity in the Dominican Republic / Donald Macleod ; Staying and contributing : narratives of belonging in Belize / Flemming Daugaard-Hansen ; Localising Cubanness : social exclusion and narratives of belonging in Old Havana / Mette Louise Berg ; Rastafari as a counter-hegemonic culture and discourse in port-revolutionary Cuba / Katrin Hansing -- Narratives of exile and home. Language, identity and Caribbean families : transnational narratives / Mary Chamberlain ; Narratives of home : visions of "betterment" and belonging in a dispersed Caribbean family / Karen Fog Olwig ; Expanding narratives of emigration and return / Margaret Byron ; Narratives of longing, belonging and caring in the Dominican Diaspora / Ninna Nyberg Sørensen -- Narratives of Caribbean identities. Decolonising narratives, double consciousness and barbarian writing : Fergus and the Writers' Maroon of Montserrat / Johathan Skinner ; Cultural politics in personal narratives of Caribbean heritage in Britain / Brian W. Alleyne ; Projecting the "natural" : language, citizenship and representation in outernational culture! / William (Lez) Henry.

Call Number

Sc D 21-25

ISBN

• 1405018798
• 9781405018791

OCLC

65181129

Title

Caribbean narratives of belonging : fields of relations, sites of identity / edited by Jean Besson and Karen Fog Olwig.

Imprint

London : Macmillan Caribbean, ©2005.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Warwick University Caribbean studies

Warwick University Caribbean studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Besson, Jean, 1944-

Olwig, Karen Fog, 1948-

Research Call Number

Sc D 21-25