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Memorializing and Decolonizing Practices in the Francophone Caribbean and Other Spaces
This collection of essays focuses on the notion of the ‘mark’, through its manifold dimensions, including heritage, race, genes, stereotypes, traumas and scars, in order to tackle contemporary phenomena and issues such as identity, queerness, emancipation and heritage. It does so by channelling reflections through a variety of art forms, including visual art, performance, cinema, distillery, and literature. Hybrid in its approaches, this collection gathers together self-portraits, analytical essays, and ethnographies to discuss self-determination at a crossroads between intimacy and geopolitics throughout postcolonial France and the French Caribbean.
Marronnage and Arts
Marronnage is a stance, an attitude, a mentality or even a style. This book gives a large span of declensions of marronnage and shows how the quest for freedom during Slavery has infiltrated social relationships and the arts. Thus, identity approaches and expressions very specific to postcolonial societies and conditioned by the interracial and phenotypical-social interactions have developed. Those musics and dances are cosmogonies with their particular codes. New spheres where the enslaved black men and their descendants could and can claim their freedom anew. Within this book, the contributors shed new light on those phenomena and unveil the preconceived stereotypical, folklore-wise, sensualized and heavy ideological blanket that conceals the Caribbean, African and Indian Ocean cultures. From the French West Indies to Madagascar and Brazil, this book offers an incursion into a phenomenon which mutates across the ages, from its origins in the colonial era up until today: metamorphoses, syncretisms and political activisms. Through music and dances, it is possible to discover how revolt could be incarnated in bodies and voices.
Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies
This Handbook provides a comprehensive roadmap to the burgeoning area of Afro-Latin American Studies. Afro-Latins as a civilization developed during the period of slavery, obtaining cultural contributions from Indigenous and European worlds, while today they are enriched by new social configurations derived from contemporary migrations from Africa. The essays collected in this volume speak to scientific production that has been promoted in the region from the humanities and social sciences with the aim of understanding the phenomenon of the African diaspora as a specific civilizing element. With contributions from world-leading figures in their fields overseen by an eminent international editorial board, this Handbook features original, authoritative articles organized in four coherent parts: • Disciplinary Studies; • Problem Focused Fields; • Regional and Country Approaches; • Pioneers of Afro-Latin American Studies. The Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies will not only serve as the major reference text in the area of Afro-Latin American Studies but will also provide the agenda for future new research.
Toxic Timescapes
An interdisciplinary environmental humanities volume that explores human-environment relationships on our permanently polluted planet. While toxicity and pollution are ever present in modern daily life, politicians, juridical systems, media outlets, scholars, and the public alike show great difficulty in detecting, defining, monitoring, or generally coming to terms with them. This volume’s contributors argue that the source of this difficulty lies in the struggle to make sense of the intersecting temporal and spatial scales working on the human and more-than-human body, while continuing to acknowledge race, class, and gender in terms of global environmental justice and social inequality. T...
The Cambridge Companion to Caribbean Music
Introduces the richly varied musical traditions of the Caribbean from interdisciplinary perspectives that will support decolonised curricula and research.
Four Caribbean Women Playwrights
Four Caribbean Women Playwrights aims to expand Caribbean and postcolonial studies beyond fiction and poetry by bringing to the fore innovative women playwrights from the French Caribbean: Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, Suzanne Dracius. Focussing on the significance of these women writers to the French and French Caribbean cultural scenes, the author illustrates how their work participates in global trends within postcolonial theatre. The playwrights discussed here all address socio-political issues, gender stereotypes, and the traumatic slave and colonial pasts of the Caribbean people. Investigating a range of plays from the 1980s to the early 2010s, including some works that have not yet featured in academic studies of Caribbean theatre, and applying theories of postcolonial theatre and local Caribbean theatre criticism, Four Caribbean Women Playwrights should appeal to scholars and students in the Humanities, and to all those interested in the postcolonial, the Caribbean, and contemporary theatre.
Camion Blanc
Sous la direction de Jérémie Kroubo Dagnini, vingt intellectuels de haute facture, parmi lesquels Christian Béthune (Université Jean Monnet), Éric Doumerc (Université de Toulouse 2), Steve Gadet (Université des Antilles), Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette (Université des Antilles), Christine Dualé (Université de Toulouse 1), Marco Robinson (Rust College, Mississippi), mais aussi le conteur franco-camerounais André Ze Jam Afane et le chanteur réunionnais Danyel Waro, rendent un vif hommage aux musiques noires, recensées désormais au patrimoine musical mondial. Dans le cadre d'une approche pluridisciplinaire faisant appel autant aux réflexes d'historien que de sociologue, d'anthropolog...
Haïtiens à New York City
Les Haïtiens sont de ceux qui ont pris le territoire étatsunien comme bastion de "fortune", chaire de la lutte contre la délinquance d'un pays qui leur est cher... Haïti. Cet ouvrage à travers divers niveaux sociologiques étudie les parcours initiatiques d'intégration d'une communauté qui a trouvé sa place entre une frange hyperségréguée de la population américaine et une Amérique qui reconnaît la pluralité, pour mieux unifier.
Archipélies n° 3-4
Un double numéro et une fertile réunion d’universitaires qui portent des regards croisés sur un concept aux limites mal évaluées : celui de créolisation culturelle. De la linguistique à l’architecture, de la musique aux rites, les auteurs qui ont apporté leur contribution au séminaire du CRILLASH sur la question (2011) cernent ainsi plus étroitement un processus, un perpétuel devenir presque, où se jouent rencontres, interpénétrations et recréations. Qu’ils soient théoriques ou attachés à des objets d’étude plus pointus, ces textes font ainsi plus que participer « au débat sur la créolisation, à son épistémologie, son exemplification » ; ils les repoussent et les enrichissent encore. Ethnologues et ethnomusicologues, critiques littéraires et historiens... on ne peut citer toutes les spécialités ici convoquées pour parler « créolisation ». Mais ce panorama non exhaustif suffit à lui seul pour dire toute l’ampleur et les infinies facettes d’un mouvement décelé, révélé et analysé par des auteurs qui, on l’aura compris, élargissent considérablement, avec acuité et limpidité, la recherche sur le sujet.
