Displacements and transformations in Caribbean cultures /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2008.
Description:	xii, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Civilization. International relations. Caribbean Area -- Civilization. Caribbean Area -- Relations -- Foreign countries. Caribbean Area.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7136593

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Other authors / contributors:	Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth. Romero-Cesareo, Ivette.
ISBN:	9780813032184 (alk. paper) 0813032180 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-242) and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Endangered Species: Caribbean Ecology and the Discourse of the Nation
2. Christopher Columbus and the Enslavement of the Amerindians
3. Under the Cuban Flag: Notions of Indigeneity at the End of the Nineteenth Century
4. "To Shake This Nation as Nothing before Has Shaken It": C.L.R. James, Radical Fieldwork, and African American Popular Culture
5. Moving Metaphors: The Representation of AIDS in Caribbean Literature and Visual Arts
6. The "Children of the Sea": Uncovering Images of the Botpippel Experience in Caribbean Art and Literature
7. Testimonial Intent and Narrative Dissonance: The Marginal Heroes of Miguel Barnet
8. Off-Beat Migrancies: Musical Displacements in the Hispanic Caribbean
9. The New Atlantis: The Ultimate Caribbean Archipelago
Works Cited
About the Contributors
Index

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