Browsing by Subject "Caribbean studies"
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Anticipating Freedom: Slave Rebellion, Amelioration, and Emancipation in Barbados, 1816-1838
(2022)Anticipating Freedom explores the numerous ways enslaved and freedpeople shaped the politics and policies of gradual emancipation in the British Empire, using Barbados as a case study. It binds antislavery debates, legislative ... -
Caribbean Iconographies of Cultural Nationalism: Haiti, Cuba, Puerto Rico
(2020)Caribbean Iconographies of Cultural Nationalism: Haiti, Cuba, Puerto Rico traces a chronological evolution of images circulating between the Caribbean and the United States demonstrating the intersection of religion and ... -
Imaginario Erótico Decolonial Kairibeafroxeri
(2016)La disertación no define un campo disciplinario, ni una construcción formal, ni una metodología que intente llegar a una verdad racional. Se desobedece la linealidad epistémica occidental y el enfoque en un tema específico. ... -
Imagined Islands: A Caribbean Tidalectics
(2012)<italic>Imagined Islands: A Caribbean Tidalectics</italic> confronts islands -at once as a problem, a concept, and a historical and mythical fact and product- by generating a tidalectical encounter between some of the ways ... -
Laboratorios-isla: Monstruos, enfermedades y farmacopeas literarias en el Caribe hispano
(2018)This dissertation examines how fiction from the 1950s to the present exposes the historical functioning of Caribbean territories as laboratories for political, economic, and scientific experimentation. Through close-readings ... -
“Make Me Live Long Enough to See Such Things”: Citizenship, Labor, and Population Politics in the Nineteenth-Century French Caribbean
(2023)This dissertation centers on Antillean women’s brushes with the French colonial state in nineteenth-century Martinique and Guadeloupe. It argues that while nineteenth-century French Caribbean of African descent women were, ... -
Mapping Manioc: Grounded Relations in the Caribbean
(2023)“Mapping Manioc” looks in the ground, taking the dense, starchy, and lively materiality of a root tuber as a lens through which to read human relations of domination and reciprocity in the French colonial Caribbean. Borrowing ... -
Revolutionizing Modernities: Visualizing Utopia in 1960s Havana, Cuba
(2015)In 1967 a massive graphic print based on Cuban photographer Alberto Korda’s world famous image of Che Guevara was draped over the five-story Ministry of Interior Building in Havana’s Plaza de la Revolución. The print became ... -
Shifting Loyalties: World War I and the Conflicted Politics of Patriotism in the British Caribbean
(2011)This dissertation examines how the crisis of World War I impacted imperial policy and popular claims-making in the British Caribbean. Between 1915 and 1918, tens of thousands of men from the British Caribbean volunteered ... -
"So many schemes in agitation": The Haitian State and the Atlantic World
(2012)This dissertation examines Haiti's crucial role in the re-making of the Atlantic World in the early 19th century. The point of departure for this work is Haiti's Declaration of Independence in 1804 and my research explores ... -
The City and the State: Construction and the Politics of Dictatorship in Haiti (1957-1986)
(2018)“The City and the State: Construction and the Politics of Dictatorship in Haiti (1957-1986)” charts a new history of place-making in the Caribbean. It analyzes construction practices in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Pri... -
The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Haiti
(2015)In my dissertation, "The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Haiti," I investigate the cultural history of West Central African slavery at the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the ... -
The Rule of the Lash and the Rule of Law: Amelioration, Enslaved People's Politics and the Courts in Jamaica, 1780-1834
(2021)This dissertation examines amelioration – the effort to create a more “humane” or reformed version of slavery – as it intertwined with enslaved people’s everyday conflicts and the legal system of the Jamaican colonial state. ... -
The Space in Between: Middle Passage Movement and Black Women's Literature
(2020)“The Space in Between: Middle Passage Movement and Black Women’s Literature” explores renderings of the Middle Passage in literature by African American and Caribbean writers. Departing from the premise that the term “Middle ... -
Transnational Trickster: Publishing, Representing, and Marketing Dany Laferrière
(2019)This dissertation uses Haitian-Canadian writer Dany Laferrière’s transnational trajectory as a focal point for a study of the relationship between literature, marketing, power, and creative agency. It analyzes Laferrière’s ... -
Whosoever Doubts My Power: Conjuring Feminism in the Interwar Black Diaspora
(2017)This dissertation uses the revolutionary potential of Caribbean religion to theorize black feminism between the two World Wars. It argues that women artists and performers across the diaspora produced ethnographic and creative ...
