Caribbean Migrations: The Legacies of Colonialism - Couverture souple

Birkenmaier, Anke

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1978814496 ISBN 13 : 9781978814493

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2020

Synopsis

2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

With mass migration changing the configuration of societies worldwide, we can look to the Caribbean to reflect on the long-standing, entangled relations between countries and areas as uneven in size and influence as the United States, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica. More so than other world regions, the Caribbean has been characterized as an always already colonial region. It has long been a key area for empires warring over influence spheres in the new world, and where migration waves from Africa, Europe, and Asia accompanied every political transformation over the last five centuries. In Caribbean Migrations, an interdisciplinary group of humanities and social science scholars study migration from a long-term perspective, analyzing the Caribbean's "unincorporated subjects" from a legal, historical, and cultural standpoint, and exploring how despite often fractured public spheres, Caribbean intellectuals, artists, filmmakers, and writers have been resourceful at showcasing migration as the hallmark of our modern age.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

ANKE BIRKENMAIER is a professor of Latin American literature and culture at Indiana University, Bloomington, and the former director of its Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is the author of The Specter of Races: Latin American Anthropology and Literature Between the Wars, and co-editor of Havana Beyond the Ruins: Cultural Mappings after 1989.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1978814496
• ISBN 13: 9781978814493
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
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