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African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Music, that fundamental form of human expression, is one of the most powerful cultural continuities fostered by enslaved Africans and their descend...
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Bodies and Bones: Feminist Rehearsal and Imagining Caribbean Belonging
PaperbackOriginal price $24.50 - Original price $24.50Original price $24.50$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In Bodies and Bones, Tanya Shields argues that a repeated engagement with the Caribbean's iconic and historic touchstones offers a new sense of (i...
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Signs of Dissent: Maryse Condé and Postcolonial Criticism
PaperbackOriginal price $23.50 - Original price $23.50Original price $23.50$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Maryse Cond is a Guadeloupean writer and critic whose work has challenged the categories of race, language, gender, and geography that inform cont...
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Water Graves: The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Water Graves considers representations of lives lost to water in contemporary poetry, fiction, theory, mixed-media art, video production, and unde...
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Tree of Liberty: Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World
PaperbackOriginal price $26.50 - Original price $26.50Original price $26.50$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /On January 1, 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared the independence of Haiti, thus bringing to an end the only successful slave revolution in his...
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Cannibal Modernities: Postcoloniality and the Avant-garde in Caribbean and Brazilian Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $21.50 - Original price $21.50Original price $21.50$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Unique in its inclusion of Brazil in a comparative study of literary texts and their engagement with Western modernity, Cannibal Modernities is t...
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Cuba and the Fall: Christian Text and Queer Narrative in the Fiction of José Lezama Lima and Reinaldo Arenas
PaperbackOriginal price $36.50 - Original price $36.50Original price $36.50$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /The literature of Cuba, argues Eduardo González in this new book, takes on quite different features depending on whether one is looking at it fro...
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Neobaroque in the Americas: Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, Monika Kaup examines the twen...
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Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $24.50 - Original price $24.50Original price $24.50$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Exploring the prevalence of madness in Caribbean texts written in English in the mid-twentieth century, Kelly Baker Josephs focuses on celebrated...
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The Specter of Races: Latin American Anthropology and Literature between the Wars
PaperbackOriginal price $29.50 - Original price $29.50Original price $29.50$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke B...
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The Pan American Imagination: Contested Visions of the Hemisphere in Twentieth-Century Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In the history of the early twentieth-century Americas, visions of hemispheric unity flourished, and the notion of a transnational American ident...
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Sounding the Break: African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $24.50 - Original price $24.50Original price $24.50$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The idea of "world literature" has served as a crucial though underappreciated interlocutor for African diasporic writers, informing their involv...
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The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints
PaperbackOriginal price $29.50 - Original price $29.50Original price $29.50$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) reshaped the debates about slavery and freedom throughout the Atlantic world, accelerated the abolitionist mov...
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Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Diaspora studies have tended to privilege urban landscapes over rural ones, wanting to avoid the racial homogeneity, conservatism, and xenophobia...
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Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean
PaperbackOriginal price $38.50 - Original price $38.50Original price $38.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Sex and the Citizen is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that draws on current anxieties about "legitimate" sexual identities and practice...
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Difficult Reading: Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780813950143 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of Virginia Press Publication Date: 09-18-2023 Pages: 296 Series:...
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Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $39.50 - Original price $39.50Original price $39.50$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780813948454 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of Virginia Press Publication Date: 11-10-2022 Pages: 376 Product...
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African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery
PaperbackOriginal price $29.50 - Original price $29.50Original price $29.50$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780813949789 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of Virginia Press Publication Date: 11-03-2023 Pages: 256 Series:...
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