The article analyzes the construction of a Caribbeanist discourse in the region’s cultural essay by looking at the work of three recognized authors from three different linguistic blocs: Édouard Glissant (1928-2011), Antonio Benítez Rojo (1931-2005) and Kamau Brathwaite (1930-). According to the drive for symbolic integration that their essays on Caribbean culture show, the region’s literature constitutes itself as a complex weave of shared symbols, figures and notions and a dense network of intellectual relations which crosses linguistic and national barriers. It is the production of an essay “in a certain kind of way” that the writers share: an “archipelagic” kind of way in which the recurrence of aquatic metaphors—a legacy from founders ...
“The Caribbean as a socio-cultural area” (1966), a key article by Sidney W. Mintz, promotes multiple...
The essay is an attempt to construct another perspective on modernity from the Caribbean. Seeking to...
This essay introduces the special section “The Idea of Hispanophone Caribbean Studies” with a focus ...
As a means to counter the historical balkanization of the Antilles, the essay writing of Édouard Gli...
El artículo analiza la construcción de un discurso caribeñista en el ensayo cultural de la región a ...
Como modo de contrarrestar la histórica balcanización antillana, la ensayística de Edouard Glissant,...
International audienceThis article results from a research work about the storytellings of authors f...
The article analyzes some central issues in Caribbean literature, in particular of the Francophone a...
Contextualizing her work within the Caribbean prose that has resignified the region during the 20th ...
This preliminary essay introduces the Spanish translation of “The Caribbean as a Socio-cultural Area...
As the first issue of 'Karib' is dedicated to the concept of the archipelagic, we have invited schol...
My article will provide a brief overview of a plethora of terms used in the postcolonial studies t...
This work focuses on some interculturalities` phenomenons in Caribbean Discourse by Édouard Glissant...
L’africanité des cultures caribéennes se résume-t-elle à de lointaines survivances, ou constitue-t-e...
This article analyzes the thought of representing Afro-Caribbean mid-twentieth century intellectuals...
“The Caribbean as a socio-cultural area” (1966), a key article by Sidney W. Mintz, promotes multiple...
The essay is an attempt to construct another perspective on modernity from the Caribbean. Seeking to...
This essay introduces the special section “The Idea of Hispanophone Caribbean Studies” with a focus ...
As a means to counter the historical balkanization of the Antilles, the essay writing of Édouard Gli...
El artículo analiza la construcción de un discurso caribeñista en el ensayo cultural de la región a ...
Como modo de contrarrestar la histórica balcanización antillana, la ensayística de Edouard Glissant,...
International audienceThis article results from a research work about the storytellings of authors f...
The article analyzes some central issues in Caribbean literature, in particular of the Francophone a...
Contextualizing her work within the Caribbean prose that has resignified the region during the 20th ...
This preliminary essay introduces the Spanish translation of “The Caribbean as a Socio-cultural Area...
As the first issue of 'Karib' is dedicated to the concept of the archipelagic, we have invited schol...
My article will provide a brief overview of a plethora of terms used in the postcolonial studies t...
This work focuses on some interculturalities` phenomenons in Caribbean Discourse by Édouard Glissant...
L’africanité des cultures caribéennes se résume-t-elle à de lointaines survivances, ou constitue-t-e...
This article analyzes the thought of representing Afro-Caribbean mid-twentieth century intellectuals...
“The Caribbean as a socio-cultural area” (1966), a key article by Sidney W. Mintz, promotes multiple...
The essay is an attempt to construct another perspective on modernity from the Caribbean. Seeking to...
This essay introduces the special section “The Idea of Hispanophone Caribbean Studies” with a focus ...