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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Additional Authors

Courtman, Sandra.

Description

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

Summary

"Beyond the Blood, the Beach and the Banana is an essential read for those beginning or undertaking research in Caribbean Studies and for those interested in the historical roots of European and North American contemporary societies."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Beyond the blood, the beach, and the banana

Subject

• National characteristics, Caribbean
• Caribbean Area > History
• Caribbean Area > Social conditions
• Caribbean Area > Politics and government
• Caribbean Area > Civilization

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9766371822 (pbk.)
• 9789766371821 (pbk.)
• 0975352954
• 9780975352953

OCLC

56656986

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library