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1 online resource (325 pages) |
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| Summary |
This collection of eleven essays is designed to highlight some important new voices who have been doing research on the general subject areas of the history and culture of the Caribbean. The essays in this volume also address a number of themes which are critical to developing an understanding of current scholarly work on the two broad subject areas. Among the themes examined are colonialism, slavery, and the involvement of the Christian Church in both colonial rule and enslavement. The essays also analyze the pre-independence and post-independence periods of the twentieth century, with examinations on topics that include prostitution, departmentalization, education, visual art, and the musical form known as Reggae. The purpose of this book is to stimulate discussion around these important topics based on the perspectives of a number of new scholars. The book is also designed as a teaching device, principally for courses focusing on Caribbean society, whether in the past or the present. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Underground history : the persistent, un-heroic past / Raymond Ramcharitar -- Slave instruction by the Anglican church and the transformation of slavery / D.A. Dunkley -- Education for the future : shaking off the shackles of colonial times / Benita P. Thompson, S. Joel Warrican, and Coreen J. Leacock -- The life of Rev. George Wilson Bridges : the Jamaican experience / D.A. Dunkley -- Faithful delineations : Rev. George Wilson Bridges and photography / Russell Lord -- Vectors of venereal diseases : the perceived threat of prostitutes to military efficiency in Jamaica during World Wars I and II / Dalea Bean -- The manioc and the made-in-France : reconsidering creolization and commodity fetishism in Caribbean literature and theory / Michael Niblett -- West Indian plays and Caribbean masculinity : an assessment of Black Jacobins, Ti Jean and his brothers, pantomime, and moon on a rainbow shawl / Dennis Gill -- A "coolitudian" Caribbean text : the trajectory of renewal in David Dabydeen's Our lady of Demerara / Shivani Sivagurunathan -- Beyond the national : cross-culturalism in the art of the Jamaican painter Karl Parboosingh / Claudia Hucke -- Reggae as a rastafari poetic of disenchantment / Eldon V. Birthwright. |
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Caribbean Area -- Civilization.
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Caribbean Area. |
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Civilization. |
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Caribbean Area -- Colonial influence.
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Colonial influence. |
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Caribbean Area -- History.
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Caribbean Area -- Intellectual life.
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History. |
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Caribbean fiction -- History and criticism.
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Caribbean fiction. |
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Intellectual life. |
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HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Dunkley, Daive A., 1973- editor.
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Bean, Dalea.
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Birthwright, Eldon.
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Burnard, Trevor G. (Trevor Graeme)
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Dunkley, D.
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Gill, Dennis.
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Hucke, Claudia.
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Leacock, Coreen.
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Lord, Russell.
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Niblett, Michael.
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Ramcharitar, Raymond.
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Sivagurunathan, Shivani.
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Thompson, Benita.
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Warrican, S.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dunkley, Daive. Readings in Caribbean History and Culture : Breaking Ground. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2011 9780739168462 |
| ISBN |
9780739168479 (electronic book) |
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0739168479 (electronic book) |
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1280658908 (e-book) |
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9781280658907 (e-book) |
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9780739168462 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0739168460 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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