| The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post/Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Puri, Shalini (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349526622 ISBN-13: 9781349526628 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Educational Psychology - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 370.15 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.81 lbs) 300 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawing on the long and varied history of discourses of cultural hybridity across the caribbean, this book explores the rich and fraught cultural crossings that are often theorized homogeneously in postcolonial studies as 'hybridity'. What is the relationship of cultural hybridity to social equality? Why have some forms of hybridity been enshrined in the caribbean imagination and others disavowed? What is the appeal of cultural hybridity to nationalist and post-nationalist projects alike? What can we learn from the hybridization of Afro-caribbean and Indo-caribbean cultures set in motion by slavery and indentureship? In answering these questions, this book intervenes in several important debates in postcolonial studies about cultural resistance and popular agency, feminism and cultural nationalism, the relations between postmodernism and postcolonialism, and the status of nationalism in an age of globalization. |