The Caribbean has a global reputation for extending unparalleled hospitality to foreign guests. Yet local citizens express feeling alienated from the Caribbean nations they call home. Here, Natalie Lauren Belisle probes the relationship between these incompatible narratives of Caribbean life.
The Caribbean has a global reputation for extending unparalleled hospitality to foreign guests. Yet local citizens express feeling alienated from the Caribbean nations they call home. Here, Natalie Lauren Belisle probes the relationship between these incompatible narratives of Caribbean life.
NATALIE LAUREN BELISLE is an assistant professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. This is her first book.
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Introduction: On the Aesthetics of Caribbean Inhospitality 1 Deliberative Misdirection: The Non-Sense of Caribbean Community in Annalee Davis’ Migrant Discourse and Ana Lydia Vega’s “Jamaica Farewell” 2 Disoriented Citizenship: Misreading Puerto Rico 3 Freelancing Personhood: Living of the Books in the Outer Spaces of Cuban Writing 4 Altered States: Bordering the Inhuman in René Philoctète’s Le peuple de terres mêlées and Pedro Cabiya’s Malas hierbas Coda: Love beyond Sovereignty Acknowledgments Notes Index Introduction: In the World, Not of It: On the Aesthetic of Caribbean Inhospitality 1 1 Deliberative Misdirection: The Non-Sense of Caribbean Community in Annalee Davis’s Migrant and Ana Lydia Vega’s “Jamaica Farewell” 23 2 Disoriented Citizenship: Misreading Puerto Rico in the Uncosmopolitan Elsewhere 51 3 Freelance Personhood: Living Off the Books in the Outer Spaces of Cuban Writing 79 4 Altered States: Bordering the Inhuman in René Philoctète’s Le Peuple des terres mêlées and Pedro Cabiya’s Malas hierbas 112 Coda: Loving Beyond (Sovereignty) 143 Acknowledgments 147 Notes 151 Index 000
Introduction: On the Aesthetics of Caribbean Inhospitality 1 Deliberative Misdirection: The Non-Sense of Caribbean Community in Annalee Davis’ Migrant Discourse and Ana Lydia Vega’s “Jamaica Farewell” 2 Disoriented Citizenship: Misreading Puerto Rico 3 Freelancing Personhood: Living of the Books in the Outer Spaces of Cuban Writing 4 Altered States: Bordering the Inhuman in René Philoctète’s Le peuple de terres mêlées and Pedro Cabiya’s Malas hierbas Coda: Love beyond Sovereignty Acknowledgments Notes Index Introduction: In the World, Not of It: On the Aesthetic of Caribbean Inhospitality 1 1 Deliberative Misdirection: The Non-Sense of Caribbean Community in Annalee Davis’s Migrant and Ana Lydia Vega’s “Jamaica Farewell” 23 2 Disoriented Citizenship: Misreading Puerto Rico in the Uncosmopolitan Elsewhere 51 3 Freelance Personhood: Living Off the Books in the Outer Spaces of Cuban Writing 79 4 Altered States: Bordering the Inhuman in René Philoctète’s Le Peuple des terres mêlées and Pedro Cabiya’s Malas hierbas 112 Coda: Loving Beyond (Sovereignty) 143 Acknowledgments 147 Notes 151 Index 000
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