Island people : the Caribbean and the world
Preferred Shelf Number:
972.9 JEL
First Title value, for Searching:
Island people : the Caribbean and the world
First Author value, for Searching:
Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua, author.
ISBN:
9780385349765
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
x, 451 pages : map ; 25 cm
Contents:
The Greater Antilles. Jamaica : the wages of love. Branding ; Badness ; Redemption songs -- Cuba Libre. Cuba sí ; Cuban counterparts ; Autumn of the patriarch -- On Puerto Rico. Boricua and the Bronx -- Hispaniola : mountains beyond mountains. The Massacre River ; The Citadel ; Haiti cherie -- The Lesser Antilles. Sea of islands. Heading south (Cayman, Barbados, Grenada, Barbuda, Montserrat, Antigua) ; Au Pays Natal : on Martinique (and Guadeloupe) ; The last of the Carib : Dominica ; Return to El Dorado : Trinidad.
Abstract:
In this combination of "travel literature and of history, [Joshua Jelly-Schapiro], voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, ... offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of each society, its culture and politics, connecting this region's common heritage to its fierce grip on the world's imagination"--Amazon.com.
