Papers by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Jamaica Kincaid
Greenwood eBooks, 1999
Kincaid, Jamaica-1949, West IndianAmerican writer, b. Antigua as Elaine Potter Richardson. She ... more Kincaid, Jamaica-1949, West IndianAmerican writer, b. Antigua as Elaine Potter Richardson. She immigrated to the United States at 16 and later became a US citizen. Changing her name (1973), she became a New Yorker staff writer in 1976, working there ...
Ceiba pentandra : Axis of the Mesoamerican World / Mirror of Climate Change in the Caribbean
Liverpool University Press eBooks, Jan 12, 2024
Caribbean Eco-fictions: Multilayered Stories of the Haitian Environment
Journal of Haitian studies, Mar 1, 2023
Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory and the Rejection of the Private Self
Junot Diaz's Drown : Revisiting "Those Mean Streets
Phyllis Shand Allfrey: A Caribbean Life
World Literature Today, 1997
... xii ». Acknowledgments Souza, Ramabai Espinet, Arthur and Elizabeth Greenhall, Geoffrey and J... more ... xii ». Acknowledgments Souza, Ramabai Espinet, Arthur and Elizabeth Greenhall, Geoffrey and Joan Guy, Janet Higbie, Sara Honychurch, Peter Hulme, Reverend Clement S. Jolly, Anthony Layng, Emmanuel Christopher Loblack, Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Mercado, Gerald Meyer ...
Beyond Miranda's Meanings": Contemporary Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Women's Literatures
Feminist Studies, 1995
The publication of these four anthologies assessing and collect-ing the literature and criticism ... more The publication of these four anthologies assessing and collect-ing the literature and criticism of Caribbean women is surely a cause for celebration, for each anthologized work adds a femi-nist perspective to our understanding of Caribbean literatures, societies, and ...
British Art Studies, 2020
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, 2020
The port of Santo Domingo-already a biological ecotone-became a cultural and racial border zone w... more The port of Santo Domingo-already a biological ecotone-became a cultural and racial border zone with the arrival of the Spanish colonizers. Its early colonial transformations, violent and radical, echoed the rapid ecotonal changes now exacerbated by the growing impacts of both pollution and the rising sea levels that are the consequence of climate change. Oviedo describes the river during the early years of Spanishindigenous sharing of the zone as abundant with fish of all sorts and home to communities of manatees that the indigenous population hunted sustainably, according to archaeological studies of the middens of the area. The waters were praised for their purity and fresh taste, especially those of the waterfalls feeding into the river, which as it neared the sea became too contaminated with sea water for drinking. The banks were lined with a broad variety of fruit trees and marked by the frequent songs of birds and the harsher tone of parrots. Oviedo notes the transition of grasses that are characteristic of ecotones, as well as the gradual transformation of fresh into sea water and the techniques of the indigenous population for hunting manatees, a familiarity that suggests a transitional period of co-inhabiting the land. The Spanish settlers had explored both the Isabela and Ozama rivers and its tributaries and had noted the intricate water network and its use by communities inland to bring produce to the communities settled near the port area in exchange for fish, manatees, and other coastal sources of protein. They also noted frequent crossings between the east and west bank of the river that suggested an early form of water-taxi.
Puerto Rico Syllabus is the website for a public syllabus project led by Yarimar Bonilla, Marisol... more Puerto Rico Syllabus is the website for a public syllabus project led by Yarimar Bonilla, Marisol Lebrón, and Sarah Molinari, stemming from the work of the Unpayable Debt working group at Columbia University convened by Frances Negrón-Muntaner and Sarah Muir. Intended as "a carefully curated portal with various points of entry," its goal is that of exploring "critical questions about the role of debt in contemporary capitalism; the relationship between debt, migration, and violence, and the emergence of new political and cultural identities." 1 Begun in 2017, Puerto Rico Syllabus (#PRSyllabus) identifies salient themes related to Puerto Rico's economic history, offering a collaboratively curated bibliography (often linked to full-text articles) to help the reader access relevant texts, videos, and websites. Its proposed chronologically organized syllabus takes the 1898 US annexation of the island as a point of departure, exploring the connections between imperial exploitation and the island's 2017 filing for bankruptcy protection, paying particular attention to recent developments, such as the imposition of a fiscal control board in 2016, and to the impact on the island's already fragile economy of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September 2017. The site underscores its collaborative nature by featuring a clear and prominent invitation to readers to join the #PRSyllabus community as a subscriber to their list, as a collaborator, or as a Twitter follower. Portions of the website are translated into Spanish, with a declared intention to make the site more bilingual and accessible. #PRSyllabus is connected to the emergence of public syllabi as spaces for educators to share materials, questions, and ideas for class discussion of complex or difficult topics or events through a hashtag. The first of these, #FergusonSyllabus, was developed by Marcia Chatelain, an associate professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University, to support classroom conversations about the fatal shooting of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown Jr.
Pocas mujeres que hayan viajado al Caribe han obtenido una fam a tan perdurable como Anne Bonny y... more Pocas mujeres que hayan viajado al Caribe han obtenido una fam a tan perdurable como Anne Bonny y Mary Read , dos piratas que, acompafia das por la tripulaci6n de Jack Rackrnan , navegaron durante vario s afios entre las Bahamas y Jamaica, hasta ser capturadas y enjuiciadas en no viembre de 1720. La vida de estas mujeres ha fascinado a muchos escri tores, desde los tiempos del capitan Charles Johnson (primer cronista de sus aventuras y de quien alguna vez se crey6 que era el seud6nimo de Daniel Defoe) hasta el presente, ha sido narrada en innumerables cue n tos, novel as y obras teatrales, y servi6 tambien de inspiracion, en fech a mas recien te, a la pelicula Cutthroat Island, el estrepitoso fracaso holly woodense de 1995. La continua fasc inaci6n que han despertado esta s mujeres se debe , sin duda, a su genero, a su irrupci6n en un mundo ese n cialmente masculino y a 10 excitante de sus ave nturas , que ocurren en una atm6sfera de gran erotismo. Los primeros documentos en los que se ha bla de su historia, The Tryals of Captain John Rackman and Other Pirates (1721), panfleto impreso en Londres pocos meses despues de que fueran arrestadas y enju iciadas, y A General History ofthe Robberies and Murders ofthe Most Notorious Pirates, publicada en 1727,1 no dejan de subrayar el hecho de que fueran mujeres. EI matiz "generico" de estos re latos aparece c1aramente en la sugestiva descripci6n de sus atuendos masculinos, el juego entre el disimulo y la revelacion de sus pecho s, que
The Caribbean’s agonizing seashores
A comparative history of literatures in European languages, 1997
Who Writes for the Trees?: Wide Sargasso Sea, the Dominican Forest, and Its Parrots
Springer eBooks, 2020
Gade nan mizè-a m tonbe: Vodou, the 2010 Earthquake, and Haiti’s Environmental Catastrophe
Liverpool University Press eBooks, Jul 1, 2016
Research in African Literatures, Jun 1, 2004
Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom ofthis World (1949), the o rendering of the Haitian Revolution in ... more Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom ofthis World (1949), the o rendering of the Haitian Revolution in the Spanish Carib for its fictional treatment of Haitian history from a slave the preface that claimed for that history the distinction of ous realism in the Americas. This reading of the text's ap salient foundational narratives of Caribbean history look "minute correspondence of dates and chronology" of th The Kingdom ofThis World, the version of Haitian history is a fractured tale whose fissures may be read as subvert the facts of Haitian history and its primary sources that his text. It looks specifically as how the erasure of the leade from the text, particularly that of Jean-Jacques Dessaline hopelessness concerning the Haitian land and its people Lempere Dessalines oh!.. . Ou ce vaillant gacon Pas quitte pays a tombe. .. Pas quitte pays a gate Emperor Dessalines oh!.. . You this courageous boy Don't leave the fallen country. . Don't leave the ruined country Defilee's Song
University Press of Florida eBooks, May 1, 2008
The "Children of the Sea" Uncovering Images of the Botpippel Experience in Caribbean Art and Lite... more The "Children of the Sea" Uncovering Images of the Botpippel Experience in Caribbean Art and Literature LIZABETH PARAVISINI-GEBERT AND MARTHA DAISY KELEHAN th ough of course th ey said nothing at all just went lobb ying by with their heads up & down in the corvee of water & th eir arms still vainly tr ying to reach Miami & Judge Thomas & the US Supreme Co urt & their mouths wise Open drinking dream & seawater. ..
Allfrey, Phyllis Byam Shand
African American Studies Center, Jun 1, 2016
Feminine Intuition
Callaloo, 2000
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