Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean: Narratives, Aesthetics and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780415789493 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 290 str.

Julia Roth

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This interdisciplinary edited volume aims to explore the importance of conceptualizations
and realizations of transgressive acts by actors within local, (trans-)regional, (trans-)national and global Caribbean contexts. Practices of transgression are essential in understanding the Caribbean and its diasporas in entangled areas such as the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia. In this study, historical and current importance of practices and theories of resistance in and for the Caribbean are identified along three lines of inquiry. Firstly, an exploration of politics, theories, and subjectivities that represent resources for and within political and cultural conceptualizations of the Caribbean as expressions of resistance. It is questioned how resistance relates to other terms such as identity, embodiment, and modes of thinking on the one hand, and concepts such as protest, violence, opposition, rebellion, power, and domination on the other hand. Secondly, a pointing out of how (grand) narratives of resistance have emerged in and about the Caribbean. These narratives explore and shape the historical dimension and contemporary relevance of resistance, e.g. in relation to memory, mobility, and migration. They address the relationship between Caribbean knowledge production and asymmetrical circulations of knowledge as well as the role of geopolitical imaginaries. A third section is dedicated to individual and collective endeavours such as strategies of activism and notions and practices of empowerment in gendered as well as racial and class contexts, but also determined by other intersecting social categories such as age, sexuality, and ability. This region's history of colonization, migration (forced and voluntary), (neo-)colonial inequalities, as well as the Caribbean's specific geopolitical role present multi-layered entanglements and processes which continue to inform practices of resistance.

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Introduction: Narratives, Politics, and Aesthetics of Resistance across the Caribbean and Its Diasporas I. Narratives of/as Resistance: Languages, Poetics, and Politics in Caribbean Literatures 1. Using Folklore to Challenge Contemporary Social Norms: Papa Bois, Mama D’Lo, and Environmentalism in Caribbean Literature 2. Shadows Pass the Surface: Decolonial (Re)Configurations of Indigenous Presence in Merle Collins’s The Colour of Forgetting 3. Acts of Translanguaging and Marooning as Forms of Resistance in French Caribbean Literature 4. From Anti-colonial to Anti-modernist Resistance: Historiopoetic Transformations of the Maroon in Selected Works of Édouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant 5. Cultures of Resistance: Dialectical Images of the Haitian Revolution in Haitian Culture and Literature 6. Postcolonial Poetics: El reino de este mundo and the Resistance of lo real maravilloso II. Resistance in/as Activism: From Theory to Practice and Back 7. Caribbean Activism for Slavery Reparations: An Overview 8. Debated Existences, Claimed Histories: Black Indigenous Women’s Diasporic Lives in Costa Rica 9. Una Universidad Tomada: Resistance Performances in the (Re)Construction of Spaces of Resistance and Contention during the First Wave of the 2010-2011 University of Puerto Rico Student Movement 10. Troubling Our Intersections: A Caribbean Feminist Methodology as Resistance Approach 11. Practices of Resistance and Cyberfeminism in Cuba 12. Racism vs. Socialism in Cuba: A Misplaced Conflict (Notes on/against Internal Colonialism) 13. "Let us be Moors:" Conversion to Islam in Cuba 14. Thinking Resistance: Critique and Resistance in the Philosophical Concepts of Foucault and in the Postcolonial and Decolonial Theories of Bhabha and Mignolo