Research Catalog

Title

Caribbean cultural thought : from plantation to diaspora / edited by Yanique Hume and Aaron Kamugisha.

Publication

Kingston [Jamaica] : Miami : Ian Randle Publishers, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Hume, Yanique
• Kamugisha, Aaron

Description

xxx, 623 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

Caribbean Cultural Thought presents a critical appraisal of the range of issues and themes that have been pivotal in the study of Caribbean societies. Written from the perspective of primarily Caribbean authors and renowned scholars of the region, it excavates classic texts in Caribbean Cultural Thought and places them in dialogue with contemporary interrogations and explorations of regional cultural politics and debates concerning identity and social change; colonialism, diaspora, aesthetics, religion and spirituality, gender and sexuality, and nationalism.

Alternative Title

From plantation to diaspora

Subject

• Culture
• Ethnology > Caribbean Area
• Nationalism > Caribbean Area
• Acculturation > Caribbean Area
• Civilization
• Ethnicity > Caribbean Area
• Group identity > Caribbean Area
• Caribbean Area > Civilization
• Caribbean Area > Social life and customs
• Caribbean Area > Social conditions
• Caribbean Area > Religion
• Caribbean Area > Race relations
• Caribbean Area > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "Presents a critical appraisal of the range of issues and themes that have been pivotal in the study of Caribbean societies. Written from the perspective of primarily Caribbean authors and renowned scholars of the region, it excavates classic texts in Caribbean Cultural Thought and places them in dialogue with contemporary interrogations and explorations of regional cultural politics and debates concerning identity and social change; colonialism; diaspora; aesthetics; religion and spirituality; gender and sexuality and nationalisms. The results is a reader that presents a distinctive Caribbean voice that emphasizes the long history of critical writings on culture and its intersection with political work in the Caribbean intellectual tradition from within the academy and beyond"--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Anti-colonial thought -- Caribbean nationalisms -- The plantation -- Cultural identity and social change -- Caribbean aesthetics -- Gender and sexuality -- Caribbean religions and spirituality -- Diaspora.

ISBN

• 9789766376208 (pbk. )
• 9766376204 (pbk. )

OCLC

• 856978584
• SCSB-10774677

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library