Postcolonial Caribbean identities

2000 ◽  
pp. 785-796 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Michael Dash
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Caribbean

Extinctions

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Paravisini-Gebert
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Development ◽  
Predatory Behavior ◽  
Coastal Development ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Caribbean Basin ◽  
Ecological Changes ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Postcolonial Caribbean

This article examines the extinction of some animals in colonial and postcolonial Caribbean region, including the Caribbean monk seal and the Creole pig, which became victims of human predatory behavior, unchecked coastal development, and the ecological changes unleashed by colonialism and postcolonial tourism development in the Caribbean basin. This article also discusses the ecological revolution measured in terms of biodiversity losses that have led to the disappearance of thousands of flora and fauna species in the region, some dating back to the earliest decades of the colonization and conquest of the Indies.

When Revolution Is Not Enough: Tracing the Limits of Black Radicalism in Dionne Brand’s Chronicles of the Hostile Sun and In Another Place, Not Here

2018 ◽  
pp. 55-76
Author(s):  
Laurie R. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Black Radicalism ◽  
American Imperialism ◽  
Queer Women ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Postcolonial Caribbean ◽  
Poetry Collection ◽  
The Revolution

This chapter analyzes Dionne Brand’s poetry collection, Chronicles of the Hostile Sun (1984), and her novel In Another Place, Not Here (1996). While Chronicles pinpoints the misrepresentation of the Grenada Revolution in anti-revolutionary narratives emanating from American imperialism, In Another Place highlights how structures of healing and alternative epistemologies of black radicalism are developed between queer women who are on the margins of both the postcolonial Caribbean nation and the revolution intended to subvert American imperialist forces. Brand’s writing interrogates the black radical tradition in search of a radical feminist politics that can account for gender and sexuality alongside race and class.

scholarly journals ‘Independence is we nature…’: Growing up in a postcolonial Caribbean country

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecille DePass
Keyword(s):  
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Family Stories ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Caribbean Country ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Postcolonial Caribbean

By incorporating oral and narrative history from personal and family stories, this article draws on Caribbean idioms and cultural characteristics as a form of ‘decolonizing one’s mind’ (Pieterse and Parekh, 1995; Lamming, 1960; Ngugi wa Thiong’o, 1986). Divided into three related parts, Part One portrays the Eurofeminist adage that the personal is political. Family history and memory become the focus for retelling stories of the severe restrictions for education and mobility in a former Crown colony. Part Two highlights a few personal non-formal learning activities which acted as sites for learning compliance and resistance in playful and nonthreatening ways. Part Three moves to the world of the large working class population, a historical site of resistance to oppression. By concentrating on women’s lives, it reveals some of the social tensions between women and men and, as important, illustrates the efforts of women through a collective to achieve self-sufficiency for themselves and their families.

Southern Processes of Planetary Urbanization in Hartford

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-48
Author(s):  
Garth Myers
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Historical Geography ◽  
Global South ◽  
Global North ◽  
Postcolonial Caribbean ◽  
Blind Spots

Chapter one examines historical processes of urbanization, with the focus on Hartford, seen from indigenous, postcolonial, Caribbean and African/African-American re-mappings of its metropolitan geographies. The chapter thus applies global South ideas to an examination of planetary urbanization in an urban area conventionally located in the global North. It argues that southern concepts are highly relevant to understanding and remapping Hartford as a global urbanism. Developing an historical geography from indigenous, postcolonial, and southern angles gives opportunities for detailing the specificities of planetarizing processes. Scholars need to look at longer-term processes producing planetary urbanization from elsewhere, to erase blind spots that universalizing theorizations produce. Here, this means rethinking the historical geography of indigenous peoples in the region, slavery, and labor migration.

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