Browsing by Subject "Caribbean studies"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
