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Reimagining the Caribbean : Conversations among the Creole, English, French, and Spanish Caribbean.

Orlando, Valérie K.

Reimagining the Caribbean : Conversations among the Creole, English, French, and Spanish Caribbean. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (200 pages) - After the Empire: the Francophone World and Postcolonial France Series . - After the Empire: the Francophone World and Postcolonial France Series .

Intro -- Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Approaching the Caribbean from a Latin Americanist Perspective -- Teaching the Caribbean across Borders -- Islands without Borders -- Analyzing the Caribbean through the Vehicle of Translation Studies -- Caribbean Drama -- Bitter Sugar -- "A Hispaniola Conspiracy" -- Defending Freedom andHuman Rights -- Glossary of Selected Terms -- Bibliographical Sources and Resources -- Index -- About the Contributors.

This volume brings together scholars working in different languages--Creole, French, English, Spanish--and modes of cultural production--literature, art, film, music--to suggest how best to model courses that impart the rich, vibrant, and multivalent aspects of the Caribbean in the classroom.

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Cultural fusion--Caribbean Area.
Cultural pluralism--Caribbean Area.
Popular culture--Caribbean Area.
Group identity--Caribbean Area.
Caribbean Area--Civilization.


Electronic books.

F2169.R45 2014

972.9

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