Research Catalog

Title

Miraculous weapons : revolutionary ideology in Caribbean culture / Joy A.I. Mahabir.

Author

Mahabir, Joy A. I. (Joy Allison Indira), 1966-

Publication

New York : P. Lang, c2003.

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Description

x, 167 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Caribbean studies ; v. 9

Uniform Title

Caribbean studies (Peter Lang Publishing) ; v. 9.

Subject

• Arts, Caribbean
• Ideology in art
• Revolutionary literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-167).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Paintings of Multilingualism: Ideological Contrapunteo in the Work of Wifredo Lam -- Lam in Cuba -- Ideological Contrapunteo in Lam's Paintings -- "A Wild and Savage Freedom": Marronage in the Poetry of Martin Carter, Edouard Glissant and Ramabai Espinet -- Maroon Spaces, Flight, and Confrontation -- Alternative Culture -- Communal Unity -- Class Struggle in Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosee -- The Seduction of Home -- Vodou in Gouverneurs de la rosee -- Class Struggle in the Interior -- Intellectual Spaces and Organic Intellectuals in Merle Hodge's Crick Crack, Monkey -- Intellectual Spaces in Crick Crack, Monkey -- Traditional vs. Organic Intellectual Work -- Rhythm and Class Struggle: The Calypsoes of David Rudder -- Sliding Beyond the Proposed -- Sound War of Position -- Rhythm and Class -- Rhythm and Revolution -- Epilogue: The Carnival Space.

ISBN

0820461555 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002016255

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library