Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean (eBook, PDF)

Narratives, Aesthetics and Politics
Redaktion: Beushausen, Wiebke; Roth, Julia; Mcpherson, Annika; Littschwager, Marius; Farquharson, Joseph; Brandel, Miriam

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the region's history of resistance and subversion of oppressive structures against the backdrop of the Caribbean's central role for the accumulation of wealth of European and North American actors and the respective dialectics of modernity/coloniality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351838788
• Artikelnr.: 56835479

Autorenporträt

Wiebke Beushausen is a researcher and doctoral candidate associated with the Transcultural Studies research group at the University of Heidelberg and a lecturer in International Cultural Studies at the University of Mannheim, Germany. She has finished her PhD thesis on body and gender politics and coming of age in contemporary women's writing of the Caribbean diaspora. Her research interests include Caribbean literatures, feminisms and body studies, diaspora studies, and decolonial and postcolonial approaches. Miriam Brandel is a lecturer and doctoral candidate at the chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Bielefeld University. Her research and teaching is located in the fields of Inter-American, North American, and Postcolonial Studies. Her research interests include Caribbean diasporic Anglophone literatures and sociocultural approaches to international migration processes and multiculturalism. She has published on the concept of home and translocational identity in film and literature. Joseph T. Farquharson holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of the West Indies, Mona, where he is currently a lecturer in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy. During the period 2013-2016 he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for InterAmerican Studies, Bielefeld University. His current research focuses on language, migration and identity, and he has published on language variation, the morphology of contact languages, linguistic ideology, language and music, and slang. Marius Littschwager holds a PhD in Interamerican Studies and is postdoctoral research assistant in Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His publications include articles and essays on Edgar Allan Poe, Roberto Bolaño, Chilean exile literatures, recent Mexican fiction, and Caribbean cultures. Also operating as editor for the online journal fiar (Forum for Interamerican Research), he is responsible for Spanish speaking sections and contributions. His main fields of research are 20th- and 21st-century Latin American fiction, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Translations, and Visual Cultures of the Americas. Annika McPherson is Juniorprofessor for New English Literatures and Cultural Studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany, president of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS), and an associate of the interdisciplinary Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research and teaching areas include postcolonial studies; theories, policies, and literary representations of cultural diversity in comparative perspective; Caribbean, West African, South African, and Indian literatures in English; diaspora studies; as well as speculative fiction and Afrofuturism. Her current project focuses on notions of enslavement and freedom in Anglophone fiction, poetry, film, and music. Julia Roth is postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the research network "The Americas as Space of Entanglements" at the Center for InterAmerican Studies and the department for North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Bielefeld University in Germany. Her research interests include postcolonial and gender approaches, critical race studies, intersectionality and global inequalities. Her current projects focus on gender and citizenship, Caribbean anti-racist feminisms, intersectionality, and hip hop and feminist knowledge production. Alongside her academic work, she organizes cultural-political events.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Narratives, Politics, and Aesthetics of Resistance across the
Caribbean and Its Diasporas I. Narratives of/as Resistance: Languages,
Poetics, and Politics in Caribbean Literatures 1. Using Folklore to
Challenge Contemporary Social Norms: Papa Bois, Mama D'Lo, and
Environmentalism in Caribbean Literature 2. Shadows Pass the Surface:
Decolonial (Re)Configurations of Indigenous Presence in Merle Collins's
The Colour of Forgetting 3. Acts of Translanguaging and Marooning as Forms
of Resistance in French Caribbean Literature 4. From Anti-colonial to
Anti-modernist Resistance: Historiopoetic Transformations of the Maroon in
Selected Works of Édouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël
Confiant 5. Cultures of Resistance: Dialectical Images of the Haitian
Revolution in Haitian Culture and Literature 6. Postcolonial Poetics: El
reino de este mundo and the Resistance of lo real maravilloso II.
Resistance in/as Activism: From Theory to Practice and Back 7. Caribbean
Activism for Slavery Reparations: An Overview 8. Debated Existences,
Claimed Histories: Black Indigenous Women's Diasporic Lives in Costa Rica
9. Una Universidad Tomada: Resistance Performances in the (Re)Construction
of Spaces of Resistance and Contention during the First Wave of the
2010-2011 University of Puerto Rico Student Movement 10. Troubling Our
Intersections: A Caribbean Feminist Methodology as Resistance Approach 11.
Practices of Resistance and Cyberfeminism in Cuba 12. Racism vs. Socialism
in Cuba: A Misplaced Conflict (Notes on/against Internal Colonialism) 13.
"Let us be Moors:" Conversion to Islam in Cuba 14. Thinking Resistance:
Critique and Resistance in the Philosophical Concepts of Foucault and in
the Postcolonial and Decolonial Theories of Bhabha and Mignolo