E-Book, Englisch, 306 Seiten
Reihe: InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict
Narratives, Politics, and Aesthetics across the Caribbean and Its Diasporas
E-Book, Englisch, 306 Seiten
Reihe: InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict
ISBN: 978-1-351-83878-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
and realizations of transgressive acts by actors within local, (trans-)regional, (trans-)national and global Caribbean contexts. Practices of transgression are essential in understanding the Caribbean and its diasporas in entangled areas such as the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
In this study, historical and current importance of practices and theories of resistance in and for the Caribbean are identified along three lines of inquiry. Firstly, an exploration of politics, theories, and subjectivities that represent resources for and within political and cultural conceptualizations of the Caribbean as expressions of resistance. It is questioned how resistance relates to other terms such as identity, embodiment, and modes of thinking on the one hand, and concepts such as protest, violence, opposition, rebellion, power, and domination on the other hand. Secondly, a pointing out of how (grand) narratives of resistance have emerged in and about the Caribbean. These narratives explore and shape the historical dimension and contemporary relevance of resistance, e.g. in relation to memory, mobility, and migration. They address the relationship between Caribbean knowledge production and asymmetrical circulations of knowledge as well as the role of geopolitical imaginaries. A third section is dedicated to individual and collective endeavours such as strategies of activism and notions and practices of empowerment in gendered as well as racial and class contexts, but also determined by other intersecting social categories such as age, sexuality, and ability.
This region’s history of colonization, migration (forced and voluntary), (neo-)colonial inequalities, as well as the Caribbean’s specific geopolitical role present multi-layered entanglements and processes which continue to inform practices of resistance.
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Introduction
Narratives, Politics, and Aesthetics of Resistance across the Caribbean and Its Diasporas
Wiebke Beushausen, Miriam Brandel, Joseph Farquharson, Marius Littschwager, Annika McPherson, Julia Roth
I. Narratives of/as Resistance:
Languages, Poetics, and Politics in Caribbean Literatures
- Using Folklore to Challenge Contemporary Social Norms: Papa Bois, Mama D’Lo, and Environmentalism in Caribbean Literature
Giselle Liza Anatol
- Shadows Pass the Surface: Decolonial (Re)Configurations of Indigenous Presence in Merle Collins’s The Colour of Forgetting
Geoffrey MacDonald
- Acts of Translanguaging and Marooning as Forms of Resistance in French Caribbean Literature
Paula Prescod
- From Anti-colonial to Anti-modernist Resistance: Historiopoetic Transformations of the Maroon in Selected Works of Édouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant
Sarah Gröning
- Cultures of Resistance: Dialectical Images of the Haitian Revolution in Haitian Culture and Literature
Patrick Eser
- Postcolonial Poetics: El reino de este mundo and the Resistance of lo real maravilloso
Marius Littschwager
II. Resistance in/as Activism: From Theory to Practice and Back
- Caribbean Activism for Slavery Reparations: An Overview
Claudia Rauhut
- Debated Existences, Claimed Histories: Black Indigenous Women’s Diasporic Lives in Costa Rica
Christina Schramm
- 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
Alessandra Rosa
- Troubling Our Intersections: A Caribbean Feminist Methodology as Resistance Approach
Andrea N. Baldwin and Marva Cossy
- Practices of Resistance and Cyberfeminism in Cuba
Sandra Abd’Allah-Álvarez Ramírez
- Racism vs. Socialism in Cuba: A Misplaced Conflict (Notes on/against Internal Colonialism)
Roberto Zurbano Torres
- "Let us be Moors:" Conversion to Islam in Cuba
Ilja Labischinski
- Thinking Resistance: Critique and Resistance in the Philosophical Concepts of Foucault and in the Postcolonial and Decolonial Theories of Bhabha and Mignolo
Marita Rainsborough
