Download or read book Resisting Paradise written by Angelique V. Nixon and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Caribbean Studies Association's 2016 Barbara T. Christian Award for Best Book in the Humanities Tourists flock to the Caribbean for its beaches and spread more than just blankets and dollars. Indeed, tourism has overly affected the culture there. Resisting Paradise explores the import of both tourism and diaspora in shaping Caribbean identity. It examines Caribbean writers and others who confront the region's overdependence on the tourist industry and the many ways that tourism continues the legacy of colonialism. Angelique V. Nixon interrogates the relationship between culture and sex within the production of “paradise” and investigates the ways in which Caribbean writers, artists, and activists respond to and powerfully resist this production. Forms of resistance include critiquing exploitation, challenging dominant historical narratives, exposing tourism's influence on cultural and sexual identity in the Caribbean and its diaspora, and offering alternative models of tourism and travel. Resisting Paradise places emphasis on the Caribbean people and its diasporic subjects as travelers and as cultural workers contributing to alternate and defiant understandings of tourism in the region. Through a unique multidisciplinary approach to comparative literary analysis, interviews, and participant observation, Nixon analyzes the ways Caribbean cultural producers are taking control of representation. While focused mainly on the Anglophone Caribbean, the study covers a range of territories including Antigua, the Bahamas, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, as well as Trinidad and Tobago, to deliver a potent critique.

Download or read book The Americas 2 volumes written by Kimberly J. Morse and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 1437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume encyclopedia profiles the contemporary culture and society of every country in the Americas, from Canada and the United States to the islands of the Caribbean and the many countries of Latin America. From delicacies to dances, this encyclopedia introduces readers to cultures and customs of all of the countries of the Americas, explaining what makes each country unique while also demonstrating what ties the cultures and peoples together. The Americas profiles the 40 nations and territories that make up North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, including British, U.S., Dutch, and French territories. Each country profile takes an in-depth look at such contemporary topics as religion, lifestyle and leisure, cuisine, gender roles, dress, festivals, music, visual arts, and architecture, among many others, while also providing contextual information on history, politics, and economics. Readers will be able to draw cross-cultural comparisons, such as between gender roles in Mexico and those in Brazil. Coverage on every country in the region provides readers with a useful compendium of cultural information, ideal for anyone interested in geography, social studies, global studies, and anthropology.

Download or read book WomanSpeak A Journal of Writing and Art by Caribbean Women Vol 7 2014 written by Lynn Sweeting and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WomanSpeak, A Journal of Writing and Art by Caribbean Women, Vol.7, 2014, edited by Lynn Sweeting, brings together 30 contemporary women writers and painters of the Caribbean in a new collection especially themed, "Voices of Dissent: Writing and Art to Transform the Culture." Includes works by Opal Palmer Adisa, Lelawattee Manoo Rahming, Vahni Capildeo, Althea Romeo-Mark, Marion Bethel, Danielle Boodoo-Fortune, Sonia Farmer, Angelique V. Nixon and more. Founded in the nineties in The Bahamas, revived in 2011, WomanSpeak is the Little Journal That Could, in the beginning Sweeting's personal labor of love, growing now into an international literary journal with a Caribbean focus. A must read for women writers and painters everywhere, as well as students of women's studies and those who love women's writing and art.

Download or read book New Daughters of Africa written by Various Authors and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection of contemporary writing by 200 women writers of African descent, including Zadie Smith, Bernardine Evaristo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A glorious portrayal of the richness and range of African women's voices, this major international book brings together their achievements across a wealth of genres. From Antigua to Zimbabwe and Angola to the USA, overlooked artists of the past join key figures, popular contemporaries and emerging writers in paying tribute to the heritage that unites them, the strong links that endure from generation to generation, and their common obstacles around issues of race, gender and class. Bold and insightful, brilliant in its intimacy and universality, this landmark anthology honours the talents of African daughters and the inspiring legacy that connects them-and all of us.

Download or read book Fodor s Bahamas written by Fodor’s Travel Guides and published by Fodor's Travel. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you want to discover 800 miles of beaches, swim with pigs in the Exumas, or relax at a top-rated resort and spa, the local Fodor’s travel experts in the Bahamas are here to help! Fodor’s Bahamas guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos. Fodor’s Bahamas travel guide includes: AN ILLUSTRATED ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE to the top things to see and do MULTIPLE ITINERARIES to effectively organize your days and maximize your time MORE THAN 15 DETAILED MAPS to help you navigate confidently COLOR PHOTOS throughout to spark your wanderlust! HONEST RECOMMENDATIONS FROM LOCALS on the best sights, restaurants, hotels, nightlife, shopping, activities, and more PHOTO-FILLED “BEST OF” FEATURES on “10 Animals You’ll Meet in the Bahamas,” “What to Eat and Drink in the Bahamas,” and “The Myths and Mysticism of the Bahamas,” and more TRIP-PLANNING TOOLS AND PRACTICAL TIPS including when to go, getting around, beating the crowds, and saving time and money HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS providing rich context on the local art, cuisine, music, wildlife and more SPECIAL FEATURES on “Great Underwater Adventures,” and “Junkanoo in the Bahamas” LOCAL WRITERS to help you find the under-the-radar gems UP-TO-DATE COVERAGE ON: The Abacos, Nassau, Paradise Island, Inagua National Park, Atlantis Resort, the Exumas, Grand Bahama, Lucayan National Park, Cat Island, San Salvador, Elbow Cay, and more. Planning on visiting the Caribbean? Check out Fodor’s Essential Caribbean. *Important note for digital editions: The digital edition of this guide does not contain all the images or text included in the physical edition. ABOUT FODOR'S AUTHORS : Each Fodor's Travel Guide is researched and written by local experts. Fodor’s has been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for over 80 years. For more travel inspiration, you can sign up for our travelnewsletter at fodors.com/newsletter/signup, or follow us @FodorsTravel on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We invite you tojoin our friendly community of travel experts at fodors.com/community to ask any other questions and share your experience with us!

Download or read book The WomanSpeak Journal 2010 Vol 5 2010 written by Lynn Sweeting and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-09-18 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The WomanSpeak Journal, Vol 5/2010, edited by Lynn Sweeting and published by WomanSpeak Books of The Bahamas, is a biennial literary journal featuring poetry, fiction, fairytales, art and photography by Caribbean women. The Journal seeks to nurture Caribbean women's creativity by publishing the best new women's literature from the Caribbean and by bringing their work to a wider audience today and preserving it for future generations. WomanSpeak is dedicated to amplifying women's literary voices, creating community and dialogue among Caribbean women authors and artists, and to making world-class books that will inspire a new generation of Caribbean women to read, and to write.

Download or read book Bougainvillea Ringplay written by Marion Bethel and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bougainvillea Ringplay is the long awaited second collection by Marion Bethel, a poet who now establishes herself as one of the most necessary voices in Caribbean poetry. These poems are finely crafted works that reveal a mastery of syntax that one finds in only the most sophisticated poets. Her poems are rooted in the landscape of the Bahamas, and yet while we find the flora, the sea, the food, and the dialect, in them, we are never allowed to imagine this place as a cliche, or as a tourist location. Instead, Bethel's sharp sense of detail, her unsettling truth-telling, and the risks she takes with narratives about love and hurt in all kinds of relationships open for us an emotional intelligence that is arresting. History is constantly present for her, and it is hard to walk away from her poems without feeling as if you have finally met her homeland. These poems are sensual: the scent of vanilla; the sound of waves, radio, voices, sea; the taste of crab soup; the texture of hurricane wind, and the chaos of colors bombarding the eye. Bahamian poetry is being defined in the work of Marion Bethel and in Bougainvillea Ringplay it is being done with grace." --Book Jacket.

Download or read book The Caribbean Writer written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Stone Gatherer written by Esther Phillips and published by Peepal Tree Caribbean Poetry. This book was released on 2009 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candid, honest, and empathetic, this disarming volume of poetry revels in poems that undress the foibles of familyfrom a father s smallness to a mother s fortissimo all located within the unique landscape of Barbados. Displaying a facility for the Barbadian dialect as well as lyrical West Indian English, the collection demonstrates the wit and intelligence of an artist committed to the use of verse to test the meaning of experience. Structured as a woman-centered movement of poems, the volume begins with the complex coming-of-age journey of a child and moves through an adulthood of romance and crushed emotions, the rewards and anxieties of motherhood, and the contemplative and reflective role of elder."

Download or read book The Damp in Things written by Millicent A. A. Graham and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sparkling with sharp wit and off-kilter humor, this emotional collection shows a distinctly contemporary and urban Jamaica through the eyes of a surrealist whose sharp imagery and precise language expose the absurdities and contradictions of society. Written in a distinctly female voice that is modern and experimental, these poems explore a wide range of subjects, from the erotic to the ironic, with sophistication and imagination.

Download or read book Hope s Hospice written by Kwame Senu Neville Dawes and published by Peepal Tree Caribbean Poetry. This book was released on 2009 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank and earnest, this moving collection of poetry offers a glimpse into the support centers and hospice outside of Montego Bay and the many lives that have been lost to HIV/AIDS in Jamaica. Culled from open dialogue with sufferers and those who care for them, and coupled with evocative photographs, AIDS becomes a channel for universal dramas, archetypal voices, stoicism, despair, and deeply human deceptions. Full of memories of a time when diagnosis was equivalent to a death sentence, each piece brings the lives of the indiscriminant victims to the forefront and battles the notion that this can only happen to others.

Download or read book Winds of Change written by Adele S. Newson- Horst and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to continue the tradition of critical study and celebration of the literary products of Caribbean writers, Winds of Change features eighteen new essays written by writers and scholars of Caribbean literature. The volume was developed from the 1996 International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars and includes original essays by Opal Palmer Adisa, Maryse Condé, Beryl A. Gilroy, Merle Hodge, Patricia Powel, Astrid H. Roemer, and Elaine Savory, among others. The writers speak to each other and to the audience on the ways in which Caribbean women writers influence their societies (cultural, political, social, economic) through their literature. The work also features a discussion of Afro-Brasilian writers who situate themselves as Caribbean in sensibility and content.

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Download or read book If I Had the Wings written by Helen Klonaris and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up gay is fraught with constraints and even danger in the small Greek-Bahamian community that feels its traditional culture and religious pieties are under threat. The main characters in Helen Klonaris's poetic, inventive and sometimes transgressive collection of short stories confront this reality as part of their lives. Klonaris focuses closely on family relationships, in particular on the difficult and sometimes abusive connections between fathers and daughters. Sharply realised as individuals, her characters are also very much part of the wider changes in Bahamian society, and show the interplay between fear, repression, hypocrisy and resistance in the relations between the state, the churches and the LGBT community.

Download or read book Ghost Rider written by Neil Peart and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In less than a year, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. That lack of direction lead him on a 5

Download or read book Guanahan mi amor written by Marion Bethel and published by Casa de Las Americas. This book was released on 1994 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: