Reimagining the Caribbean

Conversations among the Creole, English, French, and Spanish Caribbean
Herausgeber: Cypess, Sandra; Orlando, Valérie K.

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together scholars working in different languages-Creole, French, English, Spanish-and modes of cultural production-literature, art, film, music-to suggest how best to model courses that impart the rich, vibrant, and multivalent aspects of the Caribbean in the classroom.

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Produktdetails

• After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9780739194195
• ISBN-10: 0739194194
• Artikelnr.: 40623202

Autorenporträt

Valérie K. Orlando is professor of French and Francophone literatures in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Maryland. Sandra Messinger Cypess is professor of Latin American literatures in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Maryland.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: "Situating the Caribbean:
Texts and Contexts," Valérie Orlando Chapter 1: "Approaching the Caribbean
from a Latin American Perspective," Sandra Cypess Chapter 2: "Teaching the
Caribbean across Borders: the Web Approach," Véronique Maisier Chapter 3:
"Islands without Borders: Teaching the Caribbean across Languages and
Cultures," Anne François and Cécile Accilien Chapter 4: "Islands without
Borders: Analyzing the Caribbean through the Vehicle of Translation
Studies," Krista Slagle Chapter 5: "Caribbean Drama: A Stage for
Cross-Cultural Poetics," Camille Stevens Chapter 6: "Plantation Portraits:
Teaching the Hispanic Caribbean through the Arts," Lizabeth
Paravisini-Gebert Chapter 7: "'A Hispaniola Conspiracy': Edwidge Danticat
and Junot Díaz Performing (in) the Caribbean Public Sphere," Elizabeth Russ
Chapter 8: "Defending Freedom and Human Rights: Teaching Toussaint
Louverture and Haiti's History," Aude Dieudé Bibliography of Useful
Resources and Texts Glossary of Selected Terms Index Notes on Contributors