Constructing vernacular culture in the trans-Caribbean

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Constructing vernacular culture in the trans-Caribbean : ed. by Holger Henke and Karl-Heinz Magister

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Henke, Holger (Editor), Magister, Karl-Heinz (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	German
Published:	Lanham, Md. [u.a.] : Lexington Books, 2008
Series:	Caribbean Studies
Subjects:	Karibischer Einwanderer Volkskultur Aufsatzsammlung
Contents/pieces:	16 records

1. "A local habitation and a name" : travelers, migrants, nomads of "Caribbean New York" in Colin Channer's "Waiting in vain"

2. Family reunion rituals of African-Caribbean transnational families : instilling a historical and diasporic consciousness

3. Premigration legacies and transnational identities : Afro-Surinamese and Indo-Surinamese in the Netherlands

4. Readings from aquí y allá : music, commercialism, and the Latino-Caribbean transnational imaginary

5. The Amerindian transnational experience in Pauline Melville's "The Ventriloquist's Tale"

6. Dancing around dancehall : popular music and pentecostal identity in transnational Jamaica and Haiti

7. Playing both home and away : national and transnational identities in the work of Bruce St. John

8. Rituals, journeys, and modernity : Caribbean spiritual baptists in New York

9. Work that body : sexual citizenship and embodied freedom

10. "This is my vibes" : legitimizing vernacular expressions in Caribana

11. Caribbean cyberculture : towards an understanding of gender, sexuality, and identity within the digital culture matrix

12. Like sugar in coffee : third wave feminism and the Caribbean

13. Patrick Chamoiseau's seascapes and the trans-Caribbean imaginary

14. The many voices of Caribbean culture in New York City

15. Constructing vernacular culture in the trans-Caribbean : introduction

16. Performing "difference" : gossip in Olive Senior's short stories