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Généalogies De L'Errance, Cilas Kemedjio Dec 2013

Généalogies De L'Errance, Cilas Kemedjio

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The city narrative is Chamoiseau’s most original contribution to the west Indian worldview. Such writing is based on the poetics of creolity and on the memory of housing, visible in the ancestral hatred of dogs by municipal workers. It also builds up intertextual links which question both Cesairian Negritude and Glissant’s poetics. The historical memory of Chamoiseau’s characters and the intertextual links in his works transform his writings on townlife into a form of consolidation of a literary tradition which renews the genealogy of wandering life.


La Condition Postmétisse, Célestin Monga Dec 2013

La Condition Postmétisse, Célestin Monga

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Patrick Chamoiseau’s thought has evolved considerably over the past twenty-five years. Whether it inscribes itself in the registers of utopia or counter-utopia, it has moved away from the linguistics issues of creoleness to acquire a humanistic thickness. It now advocates the advent of a global identity that could be viewed as “post-mestizo”. This essay analyzes its invocation of the Tout-Monde and its faith in a universal poetics of relation. It also assesses the empirical basis for his views in a world where nihilism appears to be the only credible virtue.


Patrick Chamoiseau Et La Poétique Du «Nomadismecirculaire», Samia Kassab-Charfi Dec 2013

Patrick Chamoiseau Et La Poétique Du «Nomadismecirculaire», Samia Kassab-Charfi

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

By advocating a fluid and metamorphic type of creolity, Patrick Chamoiseau has managed to distance himself from any claim to a particular identity. His latest poetics refute more than ever the elegy of origin and the celebration of race. In Glissant’s footsteps, he experiments with the notion of “circular nomadism”, which becomes a major rite of initiation for many of his characters. That same notion, at the heart of the amorous gravitation by which he unveils the treasures of his sentimenthèque, finally leads to an ethic of transformation, a kind of “eco-philosophy” where every exodus becomes an exordium, a new …


Archéologie Du Cachot, Lydie Moudileno Dec 2013

Archéologie Du Cachot, Lydie Moudileno

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This essay examines the relationship between writing, memory and prison, as it is deployed in Patrick Chamoiseau’s tenth novel Un dimanche au cachot (2007). In this text, the inscription of the writer within the space of a small prison located on a Martinican plantation, serves Chamoiseau’s larger project to survey the Caribbean territory in order to unveil memorial traces. As it exhumes the ruins of an old disciplinary prison cell, this archeological move triggers a series of crucial transformations: in Un dimanche au cachot, prison writing reclaims a new glissantian “Lieu”, while making room for a therapeutic way of dealing …


La Voz Fall 2013, El Instituto: Institute Of Latina/O, Caribbean, And Latin American Studies Oct 2013

La Voz Fall 2013, El Instituto: Institute Of Latina/O, Caribbean, And Latin American Studies

La Voz

In this issue:

  • Lewis Gordon
  • TAULA Pablo Lapegna
  • Working Groups
  • Migrant Farm Workers


« Banlieue Noire » : La Question Noire Dans La Littérature Urbaine Contemporaine, Stève Puig Jun 2013

« Banlieue Noire » : La Question Noire Dans La Littérature Urbaine Contemporaine, Stève Puig

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Just as the “beur” movement started to flourish in France in the 80’s and the 90’s, a new question has emerged in French society in the last decade: the “black question”, which deals with the place of Africans and Antilleans in French society today. At the same time, a new literary genre has emerged: urban literature, which largely tackles themes related to the presence of Afro-caribbean people in metropolitan France. This article seeks to analyze three urban novels which take place in France, and more specifically how characters situate themselves regarding their Frenchness as the French government attempted to redefine …


La Voz Spring 2013 Issue Two, El Instituto: Institute Of Latina/O, Caribbean, And Latin American Studies May 2013

La Voz Spring 2013 Issue Two, El Instituto: Institute Of Latina/O, Caribbean, And Latin American Studies

La Voz

In this issue:

  • Favianna Rodriguez
  • Pia Barros
  • Javier Diaz
  • TAULA


El Esclavo Y El Letrado: Máscaras De La Auto-Representación En La Temprana Narrativa Antiesclavista Cubana, Maria A. Aguilar-Dornelles Apr 2013

El Esclavo Y El Letrado: Máscaras De La Auto-Representación En La Temprana Narrativa Antiesclavista Cubana, Maria A. Aguilar-Dornelles

Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty Scholarship

Los tres textos aquí discutidos, Autobiografía de un esclavo,Francisco y Sab,narran la experiencia de la esclavitud desde la perspectiva del esclavo.Sinembargo, laperspectiva del narrador de Autobiografía de un esclavopermite establecer una distancia ideológica con la imagen del esclavo creada por Suárez y Romero y Gómez de Avellaneda. A pesar de que Autobiografíafue editada y alterada para adecuarla a la norma lingüística de la ciudad letrada, es posible identificar estrategias de negociación y desafío a la autoridad de los intelectuales que intentaron controlar sus condiciones de emisión y difusión.A este respecto, elnarradorno enfatiza lavictimizacióndel esclavo, como síhacen Suárez y Romero y …


La Voz Spring 2013, El Instituto: Institute Of Latina/O, Caribbean, And Latin American Studies Apr 2013

La Voz Spring 2013, El Instituto: Institute Of Latina/O, Caribbean, And Latin American Studies

La Voz

In this issue:

  • Rigoberta Menchu Tum
  • Migrant Farm Workers
  • CTLatinoNews
  • Curtis Acosta
  • Tinker Field Research Grants


¿Quién Cuenta La Historia? Testigo Versus Espacio, Shaydon Ramey Jan 2013

¿Quién Cuenta La Historia? Testigo Versus Espacio, Shaydon Ramey

La BloGoteca de Babel

No abstract provided.


El Futuro Del Quechua En El Perú: ¿Se Puede Revitalizar?, Sarah Dowman Jan 2013

El Futuro Del Quechua En El Perú: ¿Se Puede Revitalizar?, Sarah Dowman

La BloGoteca de Babel

No abstract provided.


Nosotros Los Pobres Y El Marco “Abierto”, Joel Richardson Jan 2013

Nosotros Los Pobres Y El Marco “Abierto”, Joel Richardson

La BloGoteca de Babel

No abstract provided.


La Lluvia Del Realismo: Mágico Y Social, Jessica Patrick Jan 2013

La Lluvia Del Realismo: Mágico Y Social, Jessica Patrick

La BloGoteca de Babel

No abstract provided.


La Irrealidad Como Lo Real En Borges, Mary Guillermo Jan 2013

La Irrealidad Como Lo Real En Borges, Mary Guillermo

La BloGoteca de Babel

No abstract provided.


Otra Mirada A Una Sola Muerte Numerosa: Las Memorias De Género Y De Victimización Femenina, Beatrice J. Nichols Jan 2013

Otra Mirada A Una Sola Muerte Numerosa: Las Memorias De Género Y De Victimización Femenina, Beatrice J. Nichols

La BloGoteca de Babel

No abstract provided.


Ser Cubano Y Haber Nacido En Los 70: Memoria E Identidad Generacional En El Telón De Azúcar, Un Documental De Camila Guzmán, Arelis Rivero Cabrera Jan 2013

Ser Cubano Y Haber Nacido En Los 70: Memoria E Identidad Generacional En El Telón De Azúcar, Un Documental De Camila Guzmán, Arelis Rivero Cabrera

La BloGoteca de Babel

No abstract provided.


Gramáticas De La Luz: El Trabajo De Memoria Y Post Memoria En El Documental Chileno, Craig Osterbrock Jan 2013

Gramáticas De La Luz: El Trabajo De Memoria Y Post Memoria En El Documental Chileno, Craig Osterbrock

La BloGoteca de Babel

No abstract provided.


Poetas Bandidos, Zen Masters Nuyorican Y Crevice-Makers Decoloniales – ¡Oh My! Una Exploración Interseccional Del Arte Y La Política Nuyorican, Caroline Shipley Jan 2013

Poetas Bandidos, Zen Masters Nuyorican Y Crevice-Makers Decoloniales – ¡Oh My! Una Exploración Interseccional Del Arte Y La Política Nuyorican, Caroline Shipley

La BloGoteca de Babel

No abstract provided.


Los Cosmos De La Memoria En Pilar Calveiro Y Nora Strejilevich, Rebecca Price Jan 2013

Los Cosmos De La Memoria En Pilar Calveiro Y Nora Strejilevich, Rebecca Price

La BloGoteca de Babel

No abstract provided.


La Representación De La Memoria Traumática En La Vida Doble Y Mi Verdad, Alison Tange Jan 2013

La Representación De La Memoria Traumática En La Vida Doble Y Mi Verdad, Alison Tange

La BloGoteca de Babel

No abstract provided.


Virtue In Corruption: Privateers, Smugglers, And The Shape Of Empire In The Eighteenth-Century Caribbean, Casey Sylvia Schmitt Jan 2013

Virtue In Corruption: Privateers, Smugglers, And The Shape Of Empire In The Eighteenth-Century Caribbean, Casey Sylvia Schmitt

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Exhibit Curriculum For Condition: My Place Our Longing (Lesson 1 Of 2), Sarah Aponte, Dania Diaz Jan 2013

Exhibit Curriculum For Condition: My Place Our Longing (Lesson 1 Of 2), Sarah Aponte, Dania Diaz

Open Educational Resources

Exhibit curriculum for the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute exhibit, Condition: My Place Our Longing.

The exhibit highlights the work of two young Dominican immigrant artists living in New York: Julianny Ariza and Leslie Jiménez and showcases original pieces produced between 2011 and 2012 that explore the subject of living in between two worlds, and other conditions of living.


Exhibit Curriculum For Condition: My Place Our Longing (Lesson 2 Of 2), Sarah Aponte, Dania Diag Jan 2013

Exhibit Curriculum For Condition: My Place Our Longing (Lesson 2 Of 2), Sarah Aponte, Dania Diag

Open Educational Resources

Exhibit curriculum for the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute exhibit, Condition: My Place Our Longing.

The exhibit highlights the work of two young Dominican immigrant artists living in New York: Julianny Ariza and Leslie Jiménez and showcases original pieces produced between 2011 and 2012 that explore the subject of living in between two worlds, and other conditions of living.


An Allegory For Life: An 18th Century African-Influenced Cemetery Landscape, Nassau, Bahamas, Grace S. Turner Jan 2013

An Allegory For Life: An 18th Century African-Influenced Cemetery Landscape, Nassau, Bahamas, Grace S. Turner

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

I use W.E.B. Du Bois' reference to the worlds 'within and without the veil' as the narrative setting for presenting the case of an African-Bahamian urban cemetery in use from the early eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. I argue that people of African descent lived what Du Bois termed a 'double consciousness.' Thus, the ways in which they shaped and changed this cemetery landscape reflect the complexities of their lives. Since the material expressions of this cemetery landscape represent the cultural perspectives of the affiliated communities so changes in its maintenance constitute archaeologically visible evidence of this process. …


Ontological Blackness: A N Investigation Of 18th Century Burial Practices Among Captive Africans On The Island Of Barbados, Brittany Leigh Brown Jan 2013

Ontological Blackness: A N Investigation Of 18th Century Burial Practices Among Captive Africans On The Island Of Barbados, Brittany Leigh Brown

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Use Of History In Migrating: Cases From The Haitian Diaspora, Elizabeth K. Yohn Jan 2013

The Use Of History In Migrating: Cases From The Haitian Diaspora, Elizabeth K. Yohn

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"A Medley Of Contradictions": The Jewish Diaspora In St Eustatius And Barbados, Derek Robert Miller Jan 2013

"A Medley Of Contradictions": The Jewish Diaspora In St Eustatius And Barbados, Derek Robert Miller

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

During the 17th and 18th century a number of Jews settled on the English island of Barbados and the Dutch island of St. Eustatius. The Jews on both islands erected synagogues and a number of key structures essential for a practicing religious community. Although they had strong connections that spanned across geo-political boundaries, the synagogue compounds on each island became key places for the creation and maintenance of a Jewish community. I argue that these synagogue compounds represented diasporic places that must be understood through a tri-partite model that explores the relationships between the Jewish community and its hostland, other …


Everything In Di Dark Muss Come To Light: A Postcolonial Investigation Of The Practice Of Extra Lessons At The Secondary Level In Jamaica's Education System, Saran Stewart Jan 2013

Everything In Di Dark Muss Come To Light: A Postcolonial Investigation Of The Practice Of Extra Lessons At The Secondary Level In Jamaica's Education System, Saran Stewart

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Despite the vast research examining the evolution of Caribbean education systems, little is chronologically tied to the postcolonial theoretical perspectives of specific island-state systems, such as the Jamaican education system and its relationship with the underground shadow education system. This dissertation study sought to address the gaps in the literature by critically positioning postcolonial theories in education to examine the macro- and micro-level impacts of extra lessons on secondary education in Jamaica. The following postcolonial theoretical (PCT) tenets in education were contextualized from a review of the literature: (a) PCT in education uses colonial discourse analysis to critically deconstruct and …


Second Generation Indo-Guyanese Adolescent Identity, Caitlin Irene Janiszewski Jan 2013

Second Generation Indo-Guyanese Adolescent Identity, Caitlin Irene Janiszewski

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This thesis investigates the lives of second generation Indo-Guyanese immigrants in Schenectady, New York. Through the creative means of playwriting, I demonstrate how these subjects saw identified racially, ethnically, nationally, and how gender is implicated in these identifications. I argue that the force of "colorblind" discourse and multicultural language in the context the United States promotes an ambiguous sense of racial, ethnic, and national identification. I argue that a Foucauldian framework which I call the "deployment of race" is what manages this ambiguity and disciplines subjects to use a "colorblind" grammar. This thesis/project also makes a methodological argument. The stage …


Blackness Of A Different Color : The Complexities Of Identity Of Haitian Migrants And Their Descendants In The Bahamas, Katiuscia Pelerin Jan 2013

Blackness Of A Different Color : The Complexities Of Identity Of Haitian Migrants And Their Descendants In The Bahamas, Katiuscia Pelerin

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

"Blackness of a Different Color: The Complexities of Identity of Haitian Migrants and their Descendants in the Bahamas" is the first book-length study of its kind, and the first since 1978 to examine the Haitian experience in the Bahamas. It establishes that the Haitian diaspora is as worthy a topic of academic attention as other diasporas, not just as an appendage of the African diaspora. It examines how Haitians experience a complex, but by no means unique, form of black on black racism in which Bahamians have