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Stories of Bahamian Civil Society
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CA$43.95
ISBN: 9781978834446
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Using the Caribbean as a rich site of observance and concentrating on the island nation-state of The Bahamas, Get Involved! uncovers the hidden and under-documented practices of "philanthropy from below." Williams-Pulfer shows the long history and continued significance of civil society and philanthropic engagement in The Bahamas, the circum-Caribbean, and the wider African Diaspora.
Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence
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CA$53.95
ISBN: 9781978829541
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Culinary Colonialism is the first book-length analysis of Caribbean cookbooks, tracing the multitude of ways they represent national identity, creolization, and working-class women's food culture. Including full recipes from Cuban, Puerto Rican, Jamaican, Barbadian, Haitian, Dominican, and Antillean cookbooks, this groundbreaking work of scholarship doubles as a delicious cookbook.
Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence
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CA$97.00
ISBN: 9781978829558
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Culinary Colonialism is the first book-length analysis of Caribbean cookbooks, tracing the multitude of ways they represent national identity, creolization, and working-class women's food culture. Including full recipes from Cuban, Puerto Rican, Jamaican, Barbadian, Haitian, Dominican, and Antillean cookbooks, this groundbreaking work of scholarship doubles as a delicious cookbook.
Forbes Burnham
The Life and Times of the Comrade Leader
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CA$59.95
ISBN: 9781978837515
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
As Premier of British Guiana, Forbes Burnham led the country to independence in 1966 and spent two decades as its head of state. This biography examines how he rose to power by combining nationalist rhetoric, socialist policies, and Pan-Africanist philosophies, leading to a rule that was frequently dictatorial and corrupt, yet also sometimes surprisingly progressive.
An Ordinary Landscape of Violence
Women Loving Women in Guyana
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CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781978819047
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
An Ordinary Landscape of Violence focuses on the intertwining layers of violence experienced by women loving women in Guyana. This book offers readers insights into the complicated ways that violence as an affect is enacted, experienced, and used by several constituencies in the country, including women loving women in the forms of self-harm and intimate partner violence against their partners. It illustrates how women respond to violence in the Guyana and calls for a politics of collective healing.
The Cyborg Caribbean
Techno-Dominance in Twenty-First-Century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Science Fiction
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781978836228
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
The Cyborg Caribbean examines twenty-first-century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican science fiction, showing how it negotiates legacies of techno-colonialism and techno-authoritarianism. It traces histories of four different technologies-electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), nuclear weapons, space exploration, and digital avatars-that have transformed corporality and humanity in the Caribbean.
The Cyborg Caribbean
Techno-Dominance in Twenty-First-Century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Science Fiction
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781978836259
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
The Cyborg Caribbean examines twenty-first-century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican science fiction, showing how it negotiates legacies of techno-colonialism and techno-authoritarianism. It traces histories of four different technologies-electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), nuclear weapons, space exploration, and digital avatars-that have transformed corporality and humanity in the Caribbean.
Defiant Bodies
Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean
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CA$46.95
ISBN: 9781978830356
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone extends the discourse on Caribbean sexuality, queerness, and trans experiences by focusing on several moments of community-making across the Anglophone Caribbean -- Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago -- including legal challenges against Caribbean laws, drag pageantry, kinship formations, and a co-opting of mainstream urban nightclubs and bars. These offer readers new ways to understand the creative and complicated ways that queer Caribbean people are responding to the dominant sexual politics in the region. They also reveal how queer people are envisioning transgressive ways of existing despite the various forms of violence that they face.
Defiant Bodies
Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean
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CA$188.00
ISBN: 9781978830363
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone extends the discourse on Caribbean sexuality, queerness, and trans experiences by focusing on several moments of community-making across the Anglophone Caribbean -- Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago -- including legal challenges against Caribbean laws, drag pageantry, kinship formations, and a co-opting of mainstream urban nightclubs and bars. These offer readers new ways to understand the creative and complicated ways that queer Caribbean people are responding to the dominant sexual politics in the region. They also reveal how queer people are envisioning transgressive ways of existing despite the various forms of violence that they face.
Contradictory Indianness
Indenture, Creolization, and Literary Imaginary
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CA$46.95
ISBN: 9781978829107
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
As Contradictory Indianness endeavors to show, a postcolonial Caribbean aesthetics that has from its inception privileged inclusivity, interraciality, and resistance against Old World colonial orders requires taking into account Indo-Caribbean writers and their reimagining of Indianness in the region. This book's unique contribution lies in an explicit privileging of Indo-Caribbean fiction as a creolizing literary imaginary to broaden its study beyond a narrow canon that has, inadvertently or not, enabled monolithic and unidimensional perceptions of Indian cultural identity and evolution in the Caribbean.
Buyers Beware
Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture
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CA$51.95
ISBN: 9780813571225
Pub Date: May 2022
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Buyers Beware treats Caribbean pop cultural texts with the same critical attention as dominant mass cultural representations of the region to read them against the grain and consider how, and whether, their "pulp" preoccupation with contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for how race, class, gender, sexuality, and national politics are disseminated and consumed within the Caribbean.
Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean
Ways of Being Non/Sovereign
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CA$46.95
ISBN: 9781978818668
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean explores fundamental questions of equality and freedom on the various non-sovereign islands of the Dutch Caribbean. While this collection of essays recognizes the existence of nationalist independence movements, it challenges conventional assumptions about political non/sovereignty, opening a critical space to look at other forms of political articulation, autonomy, liberty, and a good life.
Erotic Cartographies
Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination
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CA$53.95
ISBN: 9781978821361
Pub Date: January 2022
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Erotic Cartographies uses maps drawn by Trinidadian same-sex-loving women to demonstrate how their gender performance, erotic autonomy, and space-making practices contest their invisibility and exclusion from discourses of belonging, and challenge colonial discourses and practices related to gender, knowledge, and power in Trinidadian society.
Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships
Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti
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CA$46.95
ISBN: 9781978820586
Pub Date: December 2021
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It describes how, in the meantime, people from various backgrounds use, transform, and create vibrant urban spaces and economies that enable them to rebuild their lives. By exploring how the state, international organizations, and everyday people transform the environment,the book reflects on the possibilities of dwelling in post-disaster landscapes.
Creolized Sexualities
Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781978818118
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
By showing how a wide, and surprising, range of Caribbean writers have contributed to the crafting of a supple and inclusive erotic repertoire across the second half of the twentieth century, the readings in this book aim to demonstrate that a recognition of creolized and pluralized sexualities already exists within the literary imagination.
Haiti Fights Back
The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte
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CA$54.95
ISBN: 9781978815407
Pub Date: June 2021
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte is the first US study of the politician and caco leader (guerrilla fighter) who fought against the US occupation of Haiti from 1915-1934. Alexis locates rare multilingual sources from both nations and documents Péralte's political movement and citizens' protests. The interdisciplinary work offers a new approach to studies of the US invasion period by documenting how Caribbean people fought back.
Get Involved!
Stories of Bahamian Civil Society
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9781978834446
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence
CA$53.95
ISBN: 9781978829541
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence
CA$97.00
ISBN: 9781978829558
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Forbes Burnham
The Life and Times of the Comrade Leader
CA$59.95
ISBN: 9781978837515
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
An Ordinary Landscape of Violence
Women Loving Women in Guyana
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781978819047
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
The Cyborg Caribbean
Techno-Dominance in Twenty-First-Century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Science Fiction
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781978836228
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
The Cyborg Caribbean
Techno-Dominance in Twenty-First-Century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Science Fiction
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781978836259
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Defiant Bodies
Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean
CA$46.95
ISBN: 9781978830356
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Defiant Bodies
Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean
CA$188.00
ISBN: 9781978830363
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Contradictory Indianness
Indenture, Creolization, and Literary Imaginary
CA$46.95
ISBN: 9781978829107
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Buyers Beware
Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture
CA$51.95
ISBN: 9780813571225
Pub Date: May 2022
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean
Ways of Being Non/Sovereign
CA$46.95
ISBN: 9781978818668
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Erotic Cartographies
Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination
CA$53.95
ISBN: 9781978821361
Pub Date: January 2022
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships
Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti
CA$46.95
ISBN: 9781978820586
Pub Date: December 2021
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Creolized Sexualities
Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781978818118
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Haiti Fights Back
The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte
CA$54.95
ISBN: 9781978815407
Pub Date: June 2021
Imprint: Rutgers University Press