Caribbean Cultural IdentitiesGlyne A. Griffith "The eight essays in this edition analyze Caribbean culture less as commodity to be consumed than as ontological device and discursive tool/weapon."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... earliest forms , he suggests , it em- ployed Orisha chants grounded in Yoruba traditions but taken out of their original ... early minor - key melodies of the stick - fighting songs . Rohlehr in- dicates that the musical structure of the ...
... earliest forms , he suggests , it em- ployed Orisha chants grounded in Yoruba traditions but taken out of their original ... early minor - key melodies of the stick - fighting songs . Rohlehr in- dicates that the musical structure of the ...
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... to me in the very early hours before dawn . I used to enjoy what West Indians call " liming " ( an Anglophone colloquialism meaning to " hang out , " to socialize ) in a place called St. James . Since 20 CARIBBEAN CULTURAL IDENTITIES.
... to me in the very early hours before dawn . I used to enjoy what West Indians call " liming " ( an Anglophone colloquialism meaning to " hang out , " to socialize ) in a place called St. James . Since 20 CARIBBEAN CULTURAL IDENTITIES.
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... early hours when the pavement outside what was then the George Street Market would be crowded with what could barely be perceived as human shapes , and boxes , and crocus bags with every variety of fruit and vegetable the earth could ...
... early hours when the pavement outside what was then the George Street Market would be crowded with what could barely be perceived as human shapes , and boxes , and crocus bags with every variety of fruit and vegetable the earth could ...
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... early fif- ties . What was new and I think without precedent was the forging of two separate armies of labor , African and Indian , into a single politi- cal force , and the creation of a consciousness born of that collabora- tion which ...
... early fif- ties . What was new and I think without precedent was the forging of two separate armies of labor , African and Indian , into a single politi- cal force , and the creation of a consciousness born of that collabora- tion which ...
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... early arrivants may look heroic if you are looking at one part of what they did . Their achievement in navigation is remarkable ; that cannot be devalued or undermined , but at the receiving end , there is a somewhat different story ...
... early arrivants may look heroic if you are looking at one part of what they did . Their achievement in navigation is remarkable ; that cannot be devalued or undermined , but at the receiving end , there is a somewhat different story ...
Contents
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Calypso and Caribbean Identity | 55 |
The Pleasures of Exile in Selected West Indian Writing Since 1987 | 73 |
Haiti the Caribbean and the Black Atlantic | 104 |
Album Cover Imagery in Caribbean Music | 123 |
The Project of Becoming for Marlene NourbesePhilip and Erna Brodber | 133 |
Narrating Gender and Agency across Discursive Boundaries | 160 |
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Page 169 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose...
Page 163 - as a deconstructivist," I cannot recommend that kind of dichotomy at all, yet, I feel that definitions are necessary in order to keep us going, to allow us to take a stand. The only way that I can see myself making definitions is in a provisional and polemical one: I construct my definition as a woman not in terms of a woman's putative essence but in terms of words currently in use. "Man" is such a word in common usage.
Page 148 - A tapering, blunt-tipped, muscular, soft and fleshy organ describes (a) the penis. (b) the tongue. (c) neither of the above. (d) both of the above. In man the tongue is (a) the principal organ of taste. (b) the principal organ of articulate speech. (c) the principal organ of oppression and exploitation. (d) all of the above.
Page 26 - What strikes us in this judicial cruelty and in the joy the people felt at it, is rather brutality than perversity. Torture and executions are enjoyed by the spectators like an entertainment at a fair. The citizens of Mons bought a brigand, at far too high a price, for the pleasure of seeing him quartered, " at which the people rejoiced more than if a new holy body had risen from the dead.
Page 97 - His is the world of landlords to destitute tenants, open-all-hours corner grocers, owners of video shops, unskilled labour: In the swift journey between Tooting Bee and Balham, we re-lived the passage from India to Britain, or India to the Caribbean to Britain, the long journeys of a previous century across unknown seas towards the shame of plantation labour...
Page 163 - I cannot speak of feminism in general. I speak of what I do as a woman within literary criticism. My own definition of a woman is very simple: it rests on the word "man" as used in the texts that provide the foundation for the corner of the literary criticism establishment that I inhabit. You might say at this point, defining the word "woman" as resting on the word "man
Page 116 - The history of the Black Atlantic . . . continually criss-crossed by the movements of black people - not only as commodities but engaged in various struggles towards emancipation, autonomy and citizenship...
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