6 edition of Caribbean narratives of belonging found in the catalog.
Published
2005
by Macmillan Caribbean in London
.
Written in English
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
Statement | edited by Jean Besson and Karen Fog Olwig |
Series | Warwick University Caribbean studies |
Contributions | Besson, Jean, 1944-, Olwig, Karen Fog, 1948- |
The Physical Object | |
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Pagination | xiii, 303 p. : |
Number of Pages | 303 |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL15593391M |
ISBN 10 | 1405018798 |
ISBN 10 | 9781405018791 |
even celebrating the rootlessness of Caribbean subjects and the “impurity” of their origins. The insights resulting from this long engagement with the experience of being without—and beyond—belonging or “arriving,” are precisely what Caribbean narratives bring to the understanding of the [email protected] experience. Her publications include Land and Development in the Caribbean (co-edited with Janet Momsen, Macmillan, ); Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture-Building in Jamaica (); and Caribbean Narratives of Belonging: Fields of Relations, Sites of Identity (co-edited with Karen Fog Olwig, Macmillan, ).
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Introduction: Caribbean narratives of belonging. In: Jean Besson and Karen Fog Olwig, eds. Caribbean narratives of belonging: fields of relations, sites of identity. Oxford: Macmillan, pp.
ISBN [Book Section] No full text available Abstract or Description. Sacred sites, shifting histories: narratives of belonging, land and globalization in the Cockpit Country, Jamaica. In: Jean Besson and Caribbean narratives of belonging book Fog Olwig, eds. Caribbean narratives of belonging: fields of relations, sites of identity.
Oxford: Macmillan, pp. “The book is well written [I]n the ethnographic chapters the prose is crisp and the family narratives are enjoyable to read.
Caribbean Journeys succeeds admirably in showing how a migrant’s network of family relations provides the central context for migratory moves and the nature of relations migrants maintain with their places of Author: Karen Fog Olwig. This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations.
Focusing on the Caribbean. Cultural fictions - texts written from the perspective of the edge - are the focus of this exciting and enlightening book. The author examines the formations of narratives of identity in contemporary 'borderline' fictions and films.
The work of migrant and marginalised groups located at theboundaries of nations, cultures, classes, ethnicities, sexualities and genders, is explored 4/5(1). Elvira Pulitano, professor in Ethnic Studies, and Karen Muñoz-Christian, associate professor of Spanish, discuss Pulitano’s book, Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean: Diasporic Literature and the Human Experience.
Pulitano’s book, published by Routledge inoffers a timely window on issues of diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a Cited by: 1. Her publications include Land and Development in the Caribbean (co-edited with Janet Momsen, Macmillan, ); Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture-Building in Jamaica (); and Caribbean Narratives of Belonging: Fields of Relations, Sites of Identity (co-edited with Karen Fog Olwig, Macmillan, ).Author: J.
Besson. This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations.
Focusing on the Caribbean double-diaspora, Pulitano offers a close-read. migrated out of the Caribbean in the last 50 years and are testaments to the fact that immigration has become an integral part of Caribbean life. These three families are the protagonists of Karen Fog Olwig’s latest book, Caribbean Journeys: An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks.
Olwig’s approach departs. This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations.
Focusing on the Caribbean double-diaspora, Pulitano offers a close-reading of a range of popular works by four well. Narratives of Belonging Narratives of Belonging: Discovering the hidden narratives that shape our lives, our place in the world, and the meanings of love and justice trainer, leadership development specialist, advocate, and community peacebuilder working throughout Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the (united) States of.
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on Friday February 17th. There will be time for audience questions and light refreshments will be served. Identity and Culture looks at how different cultural narratives and practices work to constitute identity for individuals and groups in multi-ethnic, postcolonial societies.
This book encompasses issues of class, race, and gender, with a particular focus on the mobilization of forms of ethnic identity in societies still governed by racism. On February 7, the Black Muslim Initiative and the Tessellate Institute launched the findings from a systematic review of published and unpublished literature about Black Muslims in project began in the summer of and was largely prompted by a growing recognition that in spite of the visibility of Black Muslims in Canada, there was no.
Karen Fog Olwig is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Global Culture, Island Identity: Continuity and Change in the Afro-Caribbean Community of Nevis and Cultural Adaptation and Resistance on St. John: Three Centuries of Afro-Caribbean Life and a coeditor of Caribbean Narratives of Belonging: Fields of Relations, Sites of Identity.
Rastafari demands for societal, political, and cultural recognition in this migration locale are presented within narratives of self and group belonging, of claims to land and territory, and to. Buy Narratives for a New Belonging: Diasporic Cultural Fictions (Tendencies: Identities, Texts, Cultures) by Roger Bromley (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store.
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Provisions is bookended by deeply researched stories mined from the 19th century: journals once belonging to planters’ wives, rare narratives from enslaved women, and old cookbooks that give Author: Syreeta Mcfadden. Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean book. Diasporic Literature and the Human Experience.
American Studies and investigates the role of immigrant writers in discourses of race, ethnicity, citizenship, and belonging.
Exploring the multifarious intersections between home, exile, migration and displacement, the book makes a significant Cited by: 1.