Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean : Narratives, Aesthetics and Politics

著者名：Beushausen, Wiebke (EDT)/Brandel, Miriam (EDT)/Farquharson, Joseph T. (EDT)/Littschwager, Marius (EDT)/McPherson, Annika (EDT)/Roth, Julia (EDT)

Routledge（2018/04/27発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780415789493
• eISBN：9781351838771

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Narratives, Politics, and Aesthetics of Resistance across the Caribbean and Its Diasporas

Wiebke Beushausen, Miriam Brandel, Joseph Farquharson, Marius Littschwager, Annika McPherson, Julia Roth

I. Narratives of/as Resistance:
Languages, Poetics, and Politics in Caribbean Literatures

1. Using Folklore to Challenge Contemporary Social Norms: Papa Bois, Mama D’Lo, and Environmentalism in Caribbean Literature

Giselle Liza Anatol

2. Shadows Pass the Surface: Decolonial (Re)Configurations of Indigenous Presence in Merle Collins’s The Colour of Forgetting

Geoffrey MacDonald

3. Acts of Translanguaging and Marooning as Forms of Resistance in French Caribbean Literature

Paula Prescod

4. From Anti-colonial to Anti-modernist Resistance: Historiopoetic Transformations of the Maroon in Selected Works of Édouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant

Sarah Gröning

5. Cultures of Resistance: Dialectical Images of the Haitian Revolution in Haitian Culture and Literature

Patrick Eser

6. Postcolonial Poetics: El reino de este mundo and the Resistance of lo real maravilloso

Marius Littschwager

II. Resistance in/as Activism: From Theory to Practice and Back

7. Caribbean Activism for Slavery Reparations: An Overview

Claudia Rauhut

8. Debated Existences, Claimed Histories: Black Indigenous Women’s Diasporic Lives in Costa Rica

Christina Schramm

9. Una Universidad Tomada: Resistance Performances in the (Re)Construction of Spaces of Resistance and Contention during the First Wave of the 2010-2011 University of Puerto Rico Student Movement

Alessandra Rosa

10. Troubling Our Intersections: A Caribbean Feminist Methodology as Resistance Approach

Andrea N. Baldwin and Marva Cossy

11. Practices of Resistance and Cyberfeminism in Cuba

Sandra Abd’Allah-Álvarez Ramírez

12. Racism vs. Socialism in Cuba: A Misplaced Conflict (Notes on/against Internal Colonialism)

Roberto Zurbano Torres

13. "Let us be Moors:" Conversion to Islam in Cuba

Ilja Labischinski

14. Thinking Resistance: Critique and Resistance in the Philosophical Concepts of Foucault and in the Postcolonial and Decolonial Theories of Bhabha and Mignolo

Marita Rainsborough