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Shalini Puri - The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post/Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity - 9781349526628 - V9781349526628
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The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post/Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity

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Description for The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post/Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; HBJK; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349526628
SKU
V9781349526628
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99-15

About Shalini Puri
Shalini Puri is Associate Professor of English at the University Pittsburgh, USA.

Reviews for The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post/Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity
The Caribbean Postcolonial seeks to ground the claim that a genuine poetics of Caribbean hybridity can only make sense within a politics of equality. Shalini Puri reads social performances across a spectrum of Caribbean practices and identities - novels, manifestos, nation languages, Hosay, Carnival, calypso, chutney-soca, jibaro, dougla - not only to challenge some of the ways in which 'hybridity' ... Read more

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