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Diasporic Cultures in the Caribbean and Caribbean Literature: An Overview Pinchia Feng 馮品佳 NCTU

Diasporic Cultures in the Caribbean and Caribbean Literature: An Overview Pinchia Feng 馮品佳 NCTU. Diasporic Cultures in the Caribbean .

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Diasporic Cultures in the Caribbean and Caribbean Literature: An Overview Pinchia Feng 馮品佳 NCTU

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  1. Diasporic Cultures in the Caribbean and Caribbean Literature: An Overview Pinchia Feng 馮品佳 NCTU

  2. Diasporic Cultures in the Caribbean • “The Caribbean is a region in which the aboriginal communities [Amerindians-- Arawaks, Caribs, etc.] were virtually exterminated, and replaced by peoples from Africa, Asia and Europe.” --Louis James • names: West Indies/ the Antilles/ the Caribbean

  3. Map of the Caribbean

  4. Images of the Caribbean 1 • Jan van de Straet’s engraving “America”--the new world as a woman

  5. Images of the Caribbean 2 • John Stedman • slave family life • image of happy slaves

  6. Caribbean Literature--Chronology 1 • 1492-96 Columbus’s “discovery” of the West Indies • 1808 Britain and USA abolished slave trade • 1838 complete abolition of slavery in British colonies • 1845 East Indian indentured laborers in Trinidad; Chinese indenture in French colonies • 1950 “colonization in reverse”: West Indian migration to England

  7. “Colonization in Reverse” • What a joyful news, Miss Mattie; • Ah feel like me heart gwine burs-- • Jamaica people colonizin • Englan in verse • By de hundred, by de tousan • From country an from town, • By de ship-load, by the plane-load, • Jamaica is Englan boun.

  8. Dem a pout out a Jamaica; • Everybody future plan • Is fi get a big-time job • An settle in de motherlan • What a islan! What a people! • Man an woman, ole and young • Jussa pack dem bag an baggage • An tun history upside dung! • --Louis Bennett

  9. Caribbean Literature--Chronology 2 • 1958-62 The Federation of the West Indies • 1962 independence for Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago; restrictions imposed on West Indian immigration to Britain • 1966 independence for Barbados and Guyana

  10. Caribbean Literature--Overview 1 • Edward Kamau Brathwaite--“Little Tradition” (the culture of ordinary people) vs “Great Tradition”--the writer functions in, from, for his own society (cultural nationalism) • V.S. Naipaul--writer’s “self-cultivation” to get out of West Indies, a “destitute,” sterile void

  11. Caribbean Literature--Overview 2 • “New Day”--London West Indies • importance of West Indian poetry since Independence--openness to pop culture and esp. to music (reggae and calypso); appeal of public performance; acceptance of social responsibility --poetry has a “function” (poetry vs fiction as a middle-class genre) • amateur poetic practice in the WI

  12. Artistic Expressions of Caribbean Creolization ﹠ Caribbean Spirituality Seehttp://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/worldlit/photos/caribbean_arts.html

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