Bajan Affair

Bajan Affair PDF

Author: Pauline Pearce

Publisher: Chipmunkapublishing ltd

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 1847472095

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DescriptionBajan Affair is Pauline Pearce's 2nd publication by Chipmunka.It is written in diary format as an uplifting, humorous account of a holiday she spent on the Caribbean island of Barbados.Pauline describes how her heart was captivated, not only by this idyllic location, but by the characters she met during her daily exploits.It tells of a romance, not between two individuals but as an affair of the heart between herself, this small corner of paradise, and the beauty of spirit she discovered within those who inhabit these shores.Feel the warmth of the sun on your back and the caress of a tropical breeze, as Pauline's narration takes you, in imagination, to this vibrant island. Her words, as she sets each scene, are vivid in description, witty and, most definitely, thought provoking - a book to both relax and rejuvenate the reader and one, certainly, to be read from cover to cover.

Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature

Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature PDF

Author: Alison Donnell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-05-07

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 113450585X

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This bold study traces the processes by which a ‘history’ and canon of Caribbean literature and criticism have been constructed. It offers a supplement to that history by presenting new writers, texts and critical moments that help to reconfigure the Caribbean tradition. Focusing on Anglophone or Anglocreole writings from across the twentieth century, Alison Donnell asks what it is that we read when we approach ‘Caribbean Literature’, how it is that we read it and what critical, ideological and historical pressures may have influenced our choices and approaches. In particular, the book: * addresses the exclusions that have resulted from the construction of a Caribbean canon * rethinks the dominant paradigms of Caribbean literary criticism, which have brought issues of anti-colonialism and nationalism, migration and diaspora, ‘double-colonised’ women, and the marginalization of sexuality and homosexuality to the foreground * seeks to put new issues and writings into critical circulation by exploring lesser-known authors and texts, including Indian Caribbean women’s writings and Caribbean queer writings. Identifying alternative critical approaches and critical moments, Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature allows us to re-examine the way in which we read not only Caribbean writings, but also the literary history and criticism that surround them.

Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women

Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women PDF

Author: Simone A. James Alexander

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 082626316X

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"Focusing on specific texts by Jamaica Kincaid, Maryse Conde, and Paule Marshall, this study explores the intricate trichotomous relationship between the mother (biological or surrogate), the motherlands Africa and the Caribbean, and the mothercountry represented by England, France, and/or North America. The mother-daughter relationships in the works discussed address the complex, conflicting notions of motherhood that exist within this trichotomy. Although mothering is usually socialized as a welcoming, nurturing notion, Alexander argues that alongside this nurturing notion there exists much conflict. Specifically, she argues that the mother-daughter relationship, plagued with ambivalence, is often further conflicted by colonialism or colonial intervention from the "other," the colonial mothercountry." "Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women offers an overview of Caribbean women's writings from the 1990s, focusing on the personal relationships these three authors have had with their mothers and/or motherlands to highlight links, despite social, cultural, geographical, and political differences, among Afro-Caribbean women and their writings. Alexander traces acts of resistance, which facilitate the (re)writing/righting of the literary canon and the conception of a "newly created genre" and a "womanist" tradition through fictional narratives with autobiographical components." --Book Jacket.

The Quest for Security in the Caribbean

The Quest for Security in the Caribbean PDF

Author: Ivelaw L. Griffith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-11

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1317454960

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This comprehensive work on security in the English-speaking Caribbean, offers a wealth of information about the history, politics, economics and geography of the entire region. The author examines security problems in the region as a geopolitical unit, not on a selective case-study basis, as is usually done. He assesses Caribbean security within a theoretical framework where four factors are critical: perceptions of the political elites; capabilities of the states; the geopolitics of the area; and the ideological orientations of the parties in power. Political and economic issues are judged to be as relevant to security as military factors. The author identifies safeguards which countries in the region may take in the coming decade.

The Absolute Truth And Other Uncertainties

The Absolute Truth And Other Uncertainties PDF

Author: Fairfield Goodale

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-08

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0595360858

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"We were told that everything in the Buchenwald camp was as it had been on the day of liberation-torture devices, gallows, crematoria containing charred human remains, gas chambers, piles of teeth with gold extracted, lamp shades of tattooed human skin-except that the diet and living conditions of the current population of 20,000 prisoners were a bit improved, and they were free within the barbed wire compound to move wherever they were physically able to with their slow, torturous, tiny-stepped shuffle. Their striped uniforms, bearing yellow stars and sometimes pinkish insignia, were baggy and hung in tatters from skeleton frames, yet each prisoner's appearance and demeanor displayed every vestige of dignity he could muster. No hangdogs, no whimpering, no complaining, no visible tears. They were beyond that, and above it." All of the author's proceeds from the sale of The Absolute Truth And Other Uncertainties-A Remembrance will be donated to the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation, Santa Barbara, California.

New Caribbean Thought

New Caribbean Thought PDF

Author: Brian Meeks

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 9789766401030

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The dawn of the twenty-first century is an opportune time for the people of the Caribbean to take stock of the entire experience of the past forty years since the ending of direct colonialism. The authors believe it is now time to chart our future by carefully learning the lessons of the recent past. This interdisciplinary collection is the first to cross traditionally restrictive disciplinary barriers to address the tough questions that face the Caribbean today. What went wrong with the nationalist project? What, if any, are the realistic options for a more prosperous Caribbean? What are to be the roles of race, gender and class in a more global, less national world? Meeks and Lindahl include thought-provoking articles from twenty-one respected thinkers in diverse fields of study. The groundbreaking articles include critiques of existing bodies of thought, reformulations of general theoretical approaches, policy-oriented alternatives for future development, and more. This book is a must for statesmen, academics and students of political theory, social theory, Caribbean studies, comparative gender studies, post-colonial studies, Marxism and Caribbean history and anyone interested

Low-income Housing and the State in the Eastern Caribbean

Low-income Housing and the State in the Eastern Caribbean PDF

Author: Robert B. Potter

Publisher: University of the West Indies Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9789766400057

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The first comprehensive analysis of housing conditions and State policies in three countries of the eastern Caribbean: Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The study focuses on the interrelationships between the poor, low-income housing, and the policies of the State. The author concludes that 'in the realm of State housing policy and provision, the efforts of low-income groups to house themselves have been almost totally neglected as a socio-cultural resource of major importance. -Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57

Caribbean Public Policy

Caribbean Public Policy PDF

Author: Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-wagner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-23

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0429970374

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This book focuses on public policy issues in Caribbean, evaluating current policy and suggests realistic improvements and alternatives. It also focuses on following themes: economic policy, the regional business environment, regionalism and integration, health care, labor and migration and gender.

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