Caribbean Spaces

Escapes from Twilight Zone

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

AvCarole Boyce Davies

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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. From her childhood in Trinidad and Tobago to life and work in communities and universities in Nigeria, Brazil, England, and the United States, Carole Boyce Davies portrays a rich and fluid set of personal experiences. She reflects on these movements to understand the interrelated dynamics of race, gender, and sexuality embedded in Caribbean spaces, as well as many Caribbean people's traumatic and transformative stories of displacement, migration, exile, and sometimes return. Ultimately, Boyce Davies reestablishes the connections between theory and practice, intellectual work and activism, and personal and private space.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-10-31
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagUniversity of Illinois Press
ISBN9780252079535

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CoverTitle PageContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Caribbean Spaces: Reflective Essays/Creative-Theoretical Circulations1. Between the Twilight Zone and the Underground Railroad: "Owega"2. Reimagining the Caribbean: Seeing, Reading, Thinking3. Caribbean/American: The Portable Black Self in Community4. Spirit Scapes: From Brazil to the Caribbean5. Middle Passages: Movable Borders and Ocean-Air Space Mobility6. Women, Labor, and the Transnational: From Work to Work7. Connecting Stories: My Grandmother's Violin8. "Changing Locations": Literary Pathways of Caribbean Migration9. "Haiti, I Can See Your Halo!": Living on Fault Lines10. Caribbean GPS: Compasses of Racialization11. Circulations: Caribbean Political Activism12. My Father Died a Second Time13. Postscript: Escape RoutesBibliographyIndex

"Persuasive and comprehensive, Caribbean Spaces achieves an intriguing sequence of intricate journeys through Caribbean and African diasporic cultural spaces, political landscapes, historiographies, and literary-artistic terrains, each keenly observed. The result is a powerful engagement of the politics and realities of diaspora with black women's histories in particular."--Thomas Glave, author of Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh "I can't think of a book that better combines the experiential with the theoretical, the political with the commonsensical, in prose that is lyrical, evocative, and lucid."--Kenneth A. McClane, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Literature, Cornell University"Eminently readable and often entertaining… Instead of going easy on the spices, Boyce Davies provides us with a savory feast of experiences, memories, and reflections on her personal and professional life."--Research in African Literatures