Carole Boyce Davies

Caribbean Spaces (eBook, ePUB)

Escapes from Twilight Zones

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on both personal experience and critical theory, Carole Boyce Davies illuminates the dynamic complexity of Caribbean culture and traces its migratory patterns throughout the Americas. Both a memoir and a scholarly study, Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones explores the multivalent meanings of Caribbean space and community in a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780252095863
• Artikelnr.: 52024205

Autorenporträt

Carole Boyce Davies is a professor of Africana studies and English at Cornell University. Her many works include Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones and the three-volume Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Cover
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Caribbean Spaces: Reflective Essays/Creative-Theoretical
Circulations
1. Between the Twilight Zone and the Underground Railroad: "Owega"
2. Reimagining the Caribbean: Seeing, Reading, Thinking
3. Caribbean/American: The Portable Black Self in Community
4. Spirit Scapes: From Brazil to the Caribbean
5. Middle Passages: Movable Borders and Ocean-Air Space Mobility
6. Women, Labor, and the Transnational: From Work to Work
7. Connecting Stories: My Grandmother's Violin
8. "Changing Locations": Literary Pathways of Caribbean Migration
9. "Haiti, I Can See Your Halo!": Living on Fault Lines
10. Caribbean GPS: Compasses of Racialization
11. Circulations: Caribbean Political Activism
12. My Father Died a Second Time
13. Postscript: Escape Routes
Bibliography
Index