Caribbean Spaces

Escapes from Twilight Zones

Bibliographic Data

ID19989567
AuthorsCarole Boyce Davies (corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages264
Publication date2013-11-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCaribbean Spaces (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/illinois/9780252038020.001.0001
OpenAlexW4248077769
Open LibraryOL27589743M
ISBN9780252038020
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Drawing on both the author's personal experience and critical theory, this book illuminates the dynamic complexity of Caribbean culture and traces its migratory patterns throughout the Americas. Both a memoir and a scholarly study, the book explores the multivalent meanings of Caribbean space and community in a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary perspective. From the author's childhood in Trinidad and Tobago to life and work in communities and universities in Nigeria, Brazil, England, and the United States, the author portrays a rich and fluid set of personal experiences. The book reflects on these movements to understand the interrelated dynamics of race, gender, and sexuality embedded in Caribbean spaces, as well as many Caribbean people's traumatic and transformative stories of displacement, migration, exile, and sometimes return. Ultimately, the book re-establishes the connections between theory and practice, intellectual work and activism, and personal and private space

Art · Art history · Memoir · Personal space · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Transformative learning · Visual arts · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · History · Psychology · Social Psychology · Black Studies (Global) · Blacks · Caribbean & West Indies · Caribbean area · Cultural · Ethnic identity · Human Geography · Migrations · Social conditions · Social Science

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