This shipwreck of fragments : historical memory, imaginary identities, and postcolonial geography in Caribbean culture and literature / edited by Li-Chun Hsiao.

Introduction / Li-Chun Hsiao -- Remembering Toussaint, rethinking postcolonial: the Haitian revolution and the writing of historical trauma in the Caribbean / Li-Chun Hsiao -- Unveiling the mask: race, nationhood, and caribeñidad in "La tierra y el cielo" / Sheree Henlon -- The music, the artist, and the aficionado: tracing the role of race and class in Caribbean popular music through literature / Kathleen Costello -- Negrismo and négritude in the reshaping of Caribbean cultural identity / Mamadou Badiane.

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In light of, and in response to, the popular perception of the Caribbean as an epitome of cultural hybridity and improvisation, this book seeks to further examine Caribbean cultural identities along the lines of race, class, nationalism, and history. Drawing on a variety of genres of literature and popular music, the present volume includes not only pieces that stress the shaping and reshaping of Afro-Caribbean cultural identities and the significance of hybridization, but also those that think against the grain and pursue questions which have not received enough critical attention. This latte.

Includes bibliographical references.

English.

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