"This is a Borzoi book"--Title-page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-451).
Contents:
The Greater Antilles. Jamaica : the wages of love. Branding ; Badness ; Redemption songs -- Cuba Libre. Cuba sí ; Cuban counterparts ; Autumn of the patriarch -- On Puerto Rico. Boricua and the Bronx -- Hispaniola : mountains beyond mountains. The Massacre River ; The Citadel ; Haiti cherie -- The Lesser Antilles. Sea of islands. Heading south (Cayman, Barbados, Grenada, Barbuda, Montserrat, Antigua) ; Au Pays Natal : on Martinique (and Guadeloupe) ; The last of the Carib : Dominica ; Return to El Dorado : Trinidad.
Summary:
"From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa Maria's deck in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to fantasies projected from without by the West, and viewed as a place to be consumed. It stood at the center of the transatlantic slave trade for more than 300 years. Its societies were shaped by mass migrations and forced labor from the 16th century onwards, imposed by European or latterly-American imperial masters. Scattered across a vast arc of islands and in some instances separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, the more than 40,000,000 Caribbean people today are countering their imperial history by shaping cultural conversation the world over: through literature, music, art, and religion in an era when cultures everywhere are contending with "rootlessness.""-- Provided by publisher.
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