Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-caribbean

by Henke, Holger; Magister, Karl-Heinz; Allahar, Anton; Bailey, Carol; Best, Curwen; Butler, Melvin L.; Dalleo, Raphael; Forde, Maarit; Knepper, Wendy; Mohammed, Patricia; Phillip, Lyndon; Savory, Elaine; Schmidt, Bettina E.; Sheller, Mimi; Shields, Tanya; S

• ISBN13: 9780739121610
• ISBN10: 0739121618
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-13
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

In this volume, the editors and authors strive to understand the evolving Trans-Caribbean as a discontinuous, displacing, and displaced transnational space. The Trans-Caribbean is therefore understood as a space suspended in a double dialectic, which opposes both the hegemonic metropolitan space inhabited, as well as the romanticized, yet colonialized, "inner plantation" (Kamau Brathwaite), whose transcendence via migration perpetually turns out to be an illusion.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean	p. xv
(Re-)Creating Homes in the Vernacular
Premigration Legacies and Transnational Identities: Afro-Surinamese and Indo-Surinamese in the Netherlands	p. 3
The Many Voices of Caribbean Culture in New York City	p. 23
Family Reunion Rituals of African-Caribbean Transnational Families: Instilling a Historical and Diasporic Consciousness	p. 43
Performing Identities
Dancing around Dancehall: Popular Music and Pentecostal Identity in Transnational Jamaica and Haiti	p. 63
Rituals, Journeys, and Modernity: Caribbean Spiritual Baptists in New York	p. 101
Performing "Difference": Gossip in Olive Senior's Short Stories	p. 123
"This Is My Vibes": Legitimizing Vernacular Expressions in Caribana	p. 139
Writing Self, Other, and (Trans-)Nation in the Trans-Caribbean
Patrick Chamoiseau's Seascapes and the Trans-Caribbean Imaginary	p. 155
"A Local Habitation and a Name": Travelers, Migrants, Nomads of "Caribbean New York" in Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain	p. 177
Playing Both Home and Away: National and Transnational Identities in the Work of Bruce St. John	p. 219
The Amerindian Transnational Experience in Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale	p. 267
Readings from Aqui y Alla: Music, Commercialism, and the Latino-Caribbean Transnational Imaginary	p. 299
The (Trans-)Nation (Dis-)Embodied
Like Sugar in Coffee: Third Wave Feminism and the Caribbean	p. 321
Work That Body: Sexual Citizenship and Embodied Freedom	p. 345
Caribbean Cyberculture: Towards an Understanding of Gender, Sexuality, and Identity within the Digital Culture Matrix	p. 377
Index	p. 399
Contributors	p. 403
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