Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean: Narratives, Aesthetics and Politics (InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict)

By: Wiebke Beushausen and Miriam Brandel and Joseph Farquharson and Marius Littschwager and Annika McPherson and Julia Roth

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Synopsis: The Caribbean has played a crucial geopolitical role in the Western pursuit of economic dominance, yet Eurocentric research usually treats the Caribbean as a peripheral region, consequently labelling the inhabitants as beings without agency. Examining asymmetrical relations of power in the Greater Caribbean in historical and contemporary perspectives, 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, through a variety of experiences inducing migration, transnational exchange and transculturation. Contributors approach the Caribbean as an empowered space of opposition and agency and focus on perspectives of the region as a place of entanglements with a long history of political and cultural practices of resistance to colonization, inequality, heteronomy, purity, invisibilization, and exploitation. An important contribution to the literature on agency and resistance in the Caribbean, this volume offers a new perspective on the region as a geopolitically, economically and culturally crucial space, and it will interest researchers in the fields of Caribbean politics, literature and heritage, colonialism, entangled histories, global studies perspectives, ethnicity, gender, and migration.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 290 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781351838771
Related ISBNs:: 9780415789493, 9781032095509, 9781315222721
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 09/30/23
Copyrighted By:: Wiebke Beushausen, Miriam Brandel, Joseph T. Farquharson, Marius Littschwager, Annika McPherson, Julia Roth
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Wiebke Beushausen
Edited by:: Miriam Brandel
Edited by:: Joseph T. Farquharson
Edited by:: Marius Littschwager
Edited by:: Annika McPherson
Edited by:: Julia Roth