Violence In Caribbean Literature

Author : Véronique Maisier
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739197134
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence in Caribbean Literature written by Véronique Maisier and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence in Caribbean Literature: Stories of Stones and Blood, this book looks at the scene of the throwing of a stone found in five novels, and uses it as a starting point to an examination of the turmoil of history in the Caribbean, the colonial education imposed on Caribbean populations, the gendered relations that exist today in the Caribbean region, the political status and aspirations of Caribbean nations, and the psychological impact of colonization on Caribbean minds. The trope of the stone and the analysis of the violence it delivers provide the thread that conducts the linked readings of these novels, written by Dominican Jean Rhys, Trinidadian Merle Hodge, Guadeloupean Gisèle Pineau, Martinican Patrick Chamoiseau, and Jamaican-American Michelle Cliff. The analytical and critical readings of these writers’ novels complement each other, and draw out their commonalities, echoes, and differences, while the juxtaposition of Anglophone and Francophone novels from different Caribbean nations contributes to a polyphonic understanding of the region. While the book offers diversity in the range of countries and languages represented, and in the interdisciplinarity of the scholarly fields that intersect in its cultural discussions, it maintains its coherence by the unifying theme of violence and its representations in Caribbean literature.

Author : Stacy J. Lettman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469668092
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Slave Sublime written by Stacy J. Lettman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J. Lettman explores real and imagined violence as depicted in Caribbean and Jamaican text and music, how that violence repeats itself in both art and in the actions of the state, and what that means for Caribbean cultural identity. Jamaica is known for having one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world, a fact that Lettman links to remnants of the plantation era—namely the economic dispossession and structural violence that still haunt the island. Lettman contends that the impact of colonial violence is so embedded in the language of Jamaican literature and music that violence has become a separate language itself, one that paradoxically can offer cultural modes of resistance. Lettman codifies Paul Gilroy's concept of the "slave sublime" as a remix of Kantian philosophy through a Caribbean lens to take a broad view of Jamaica, the Caribbean, and their political and literary history that challenges Eurocentric ideas of slavery, Blackness, and resistance. Living at the intersection of philosophy, literary and musical analysis, and postcolonial theory, this book sheds new light on the lingering ghosts of the plantation and slavery in the Caribbean.

Author : Sherill V. C. Morris-Francis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498549306
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime and Violence in the Caribbean written by Sherill V. C. Morris-Francis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an overview of the Caribbean countries, its colonial history, causes, costs and consequences of crime and violence in the Caribbean. The contributors pull from primary research and the available data from multiple sources including national and country specific reports to assess the magnitude, characteristics, and the changing nature of crimes in various Caribbean countries. Discussion is offered on the following crime issue: gender-based violence, homicides, drugs, gangs, money laundering, murder suicided, deportation and the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) to fight crime. In addition, the book provides a discussion of the crime prevention capabilities of selected countries looking at the nature of the crime problem, offers an assessment of the crime prevention capabilities and makes suggestions for policy development.

Author : Stacy J. Lettman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781469668109
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Slave Sublime written by Stacy J. Lettman and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J. Lettman explores real and imagined violence as depicted in Caribbean and Jamaican text and music, how that violence repeats itself in both art and in the actions of the state, and what that means for Caribbean cultural identity"--

Author : Tina Hilgers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107193176
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Tina Hilgers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines violence across Latin America and the Caribbean to demonstrate the importance of subnational analysis over national aggregates.

Author : Chantal Kalisa
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803226888
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence in Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Literature written by Chantal Kalisa and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chantal Kalisa examines the ways in which women writers lift taboos imposed on them by their society and culture and challenge readers with their unique perspectives on violence. Comparing women from different places and times, Kalisa treats types of violence such as colonial, familial, linguistic, and war-related, specifically linked to dictatorship and genocide. She examines Caribbean writers Michele Lacrosil, Simone Schwartz-Bart, Gisèle Pineau, and Edwidge Danticat, and Africans Ken Begul, Calixthe Beyala, Nadine Bar, and Monique Ilboudo. She also includes Sembène Ousmane and Frantz Fanon.

Author : Daniel Greiner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 365625849X
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forms and effects of violence in "The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao" written by Daniel Greiner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Würzburg (Neuphilologisches Institut), course: Caribbean Literature and Culture, language: English, abstract: Occurring in many different forms in the novel, violence is an important factor in The brief and wondrous life of Oscar Wao. It seems that violence in his various forms has its origin in the Spanish colonization, which expands to shape the whole society. This colonial past - which is above all a violent past - of the Dominican Republic and the structures it has left on the current Dominican society influences the life of the characters of the novel enormously. Although the colonial period of the Dominican Republic is over, its effects are still noticeable in various forms and its structures and effects still persist.

Author : Amy King
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469664658
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grotesque Touch written by Amy King and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Amy K. King examines how violence between women in contemporary Caribbean and American texts is rooted in plantation slavery. Analyzing films, television shows, novels, short stories, poems, book covers, and paintings, King shows how contemporary media reuse salacious and stereotypical depictions of relationships between women living within the plantation system to confront its legacy in the present. The vestiges of these relationships--enslavers and enslaved women, employers and domestic servants, lovers and rivals--negate characters' efforts to imagine non-abusive approaches to power and agency. King's work goes beyond any other study to date to examine the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, ability, and nationality in U.S. and Caribbean depictions of violence between women in the wake of slavery.

Author : Mathias Mwinzi
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668359415
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caribbean Literature. A critical analysis of the issues raised in texts by Mais, Lamming, Naipaul and Walcott written by Mathias Mwinzi and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Literature - Carribean, , language: English, abstract: Caribbean literature is the combination of works from the islands of the Caribbean. The Caribbean islands are also called the home of the noble savage because they were islands of primitive men. These islands have no large mass of land and are distant from the rest of the world. The attachment of the dwellers to their individual islands have been a problem to the growth of a broader and unified Caribbean culture. To most Caribbean writers their landscapes are an important aspect of literature. The Caribbean writers have similar issues that they raise in their text because they share similar social, economical, political and historical challenges. This is because literature writers write texts that mirror their societies. Issues that are raised in literary texts from the Caribbean texts vary from discrimination, role of women, violence, weak family units and disillusionment

Author : Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe
Publisher : Athens : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resistance and Caribbean Literature written by Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe and published by Athens : Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: