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This book gathers the very best academic research to date on prison
regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Grounded in solid
ethnographic work, each chapter explores the informal dynamics of
prisons in diverse territories and countries of the region -
Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia, Puerto
Rico, Dominican Republic - while theorizing how day-to-day life for
the incarcerated has been forged in tandem between prison
facilities and the outside world. The editors and contributors to
this volume ask: how have fastest-rising incarceration rates in the
world affected civilians' lives in different national contexts? How
do groups of prisoners form broader and more integrated 'carceral
communities' across day-to-day relations of exchange and
reciprocity with guards, lawyers, family, associates, and assorted
neighbors? What differences exist between carceral communities from
one national context to another? Last but not least, how do
carceral communities, contrary to popular opinion, necessarily
become a productive force for the good and welfare of incarcerated
subjects, in addition to being a potential source of troubling
violence and insecurity? This edited collection represents the most
rigorous scholarship to date on the prison regimes of Latin America
and the Caribbean, exploring the methodological value of
ethnographic reflexivity inside prisons and theorizing how daily
life for the incarcerated challenges preconceptions of prisoner
subjectivity, so-called prison gangs, and bio-political order.
Sacha Darke is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at University of
Westminster, UK, Visiting Lecturer in Law at University of Sao
Paulo, Brazil, and Affiliate of King's Brazil Institute, King's
College London, UK. Chris Garces is Research Professor of
Anthropology at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, and
Visiting Lecturer in Law at Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar,
Ecuador. Luis Duno-Gottberg is Professor at Rice University, USA.
He specializes in Caribbean culture, with emphasis on race and
ethnicity, politics, violence, and visual culture. Andres Antillano
is Professor in Criminology at Universidad Central de Venezuela,
Venezuala.
This book gathers the very best academic research to date on prison
regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Grounded in solid
ethnographic work, each chapter explores the informal dynamics of
prisons in diverse territories and countries of the region -
Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia, Puerto
Rico, Dominican Republic - while theorizing how day-to-day life for
the incarcerated has been forged in tandem between prison
facilities and the outside world. The editors and contributors to
this volume ask: how have fastest-rising incarceration rates in the
world affected civilians' lives in different national contexts? How
do groups of prisoners form broader and more integrated 'carceral
communities' across day-to-day relations of exchange and
reciprocity with guards, lawyers, family, associates, and assorted
neighbors? What differences exist between carceral communities from
one national context to another? Last but not least, how do
carceral communities, contrary to popular opinion, necessarily
become a productive force for the good and welfare of incarcerated
subjects, in addition to being a potential source of troubling
violence and insecurity? This edited collection represents the most
rigorous scholarship to date on the prison regimes of Latin America
and the Caribbean, exploring the methodological value of
ethnographic reflexivity inside prisons and theorizing how daily
life for the incarcerated challenges preconceptions of prisoner
subjectivity, so-called prison gangs, and bio-political order.
Sacha Darke is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at University of
Westminster, UK, Visiting Lecturer in Law at University of Sao
Paulo, Brazil, and Affiliate of King's Brazil Institute, King's
College London, UK. Chris Garces is Research Professor of
Anthropology at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, and
Visiting Lecturer in Law at Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar,
Ecuador. Luis Duno-Gottberg is Professor at Rice University, USA.
He specializes in Caribbean culture, with emphasis on race and
ethnicity, politics, violence, and visual culture. Andres Antillano
is Professor in Criminology at Universidad Central de Venezuela,
Venezuala.
This book gathers eleven scholarly contributions dedicated to the
work of Mexican director Arturo Ripstein. The collection, the first
of its kind, constitutes a sustained critical engagement with the
twenty-nine films made by this highly acclaimed yet under-studied
filmmaker. The eleven essays included come from scholars whose work
stands at the intersection of the fields of Latin American and
Mexican Film Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Cultural Studies,
History and Literary studies. Ripstein's films, often scripted by
his long-time collaborator, Paz Alicia Garciadiego, represent an
unprecedented achievement in Mexican and Latin American film.
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Ripstein has successfully
maintained a prolific output unmatched by any director in the
region. Though several book-length studies have been published in
Spanish, French, German, and Greek, to date no analogue exists in
English. This volume provides a much-needed contribution to the
field.
This book gathers eleven scholarly contributions dedicated to the
work of Mexican director Arturo Ripstein. The collection, the first
of its kind, constitutes a sustained critical engagement with the
twenty-nine films made by this highly acclaimed yet under-studied
filmmaker. The eleven essays included come from scholars whose work
stands at the intersection of the fields of Latin American and
Mexican Film Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Cultural Studies,
History and Literary studies. Ripstein's films, often scripted by
his long-time collaborator, Paz Alicia Garciadiego, represent an
unprecedented achievement in Mexican and Latin American film.
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Ripstein has successfully
maintained a prolific output unmatched by any director in the
region. Though several book-length studies have been published in
Spanish, French, German, and Greek, to date no analogue exists in
English. This volume provides a much-needed contribution to the
field.
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Stella (Hardcover)
Emeric Bergeaud; Translated by Adriana Umana Hossman; Introduction by Luis Duno Gottberg, Adriana Umana Hossman
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Stella, the first Haitian novel, combines descriptions of moving
scenes with factual accounts of the 13 years of the Haitian
revolution (1791-1804). Stella is an epic saga and chapter headings
refer to major events in Haiti's history and the major historical
figures are present - Toussaint. Petion, Christophe, Sonthonax,
Leclerc - among many others. The allegorical figures are mainly
episodic and are meant to hold the plot together. It is also an
important document of Caribbean history and fictionalised history.
Written while the author was exiled to St. Thomas, due to his
alleged participation in an attempt to assassinate the black
emperor Faustin I (Soulouque), the work can be read as the first
foundational novel of Haiti. It is a mythical retelling of the
establishment of the Haitian nation. This narrative presents not
only the birth, through revolution, of Haiti as an independent
nation but also the strife between political factions in Bergeaud's
contemporary Haiti, including that between blacks and mulattoes in
the struggle to control Haiti. Stella vividly introduces readers to
the tale of revolt and revolution that eventually led to the
creation of a free black nation.
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Stella (Paperback)
Emeric Bergeaud; Translated by Adriana Umana Hossman; Introduction by Luis Duno Gottberg, Adriana Umana Hossman
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R652
Discovery Miles 6 520
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Stella, the first Haitian novel, combines descriptions of moving
scenes with factual accounts of the 13 years of the Haitian
revolution (1791-1804). Stella is an epic saga and chapter headings
refer to major events in Haiti's history and the major historical
figures are present - Toussaint. Petion, Christophe, Sonthonax,
Leclerc - among many others. The allegorical figures are mainly
episodic and are meant to hold the plot together. It is also an
important document of Caribbean history and fictionalised history.
Written while the author was exiled to St. Thomas, due to his
alleged participation in an attempt to assassinate the black
emperor Faustin I (Soulouque), the work can be read as the first
foundational novel of Haiti. It is a mythical retelling of the
establishment of the Haitian nation. This narrative presents not
only the birth, through revolution, of Haiti as an independent
nation but also the strife between political factions in Bergeaud's
contemporary Haiti, including that between blacks and mulattoes in
the struggle to control Haiti. Stella vividly introduces readers to
the tale of revolt and revolution that eventually led to the
creation of a free black nation.
Perspectives that shatter the stereotypes and expand understanding
of a complex island nation Essays by Matthew Casey, Myriam J. A.
Chancy, Bethany Aery Clerico, J. Michael Dash, Christopher Garland,
Sibylle Fischer, Jeff Karem, David P. Kilroy, Nadeve Menard, and
Lindsay Twa Haiti has long played an important role in global
perception of the western hemisphere, but ideas about Haiti often
appear paradoxical. Is it a land of tyranny and oppression or a
beacon of freedom as site of the world's only successful slave
revolution? A bastion of devilish practices or a devoutly religious
island? Does its status as the second independent nation in the
hemisphere give it special lessons to teach about postcolonialism,
or is its main lesson one of failure? Haiti and the Americas brings
together an interdisciplinary group of essays to examine the
influence of Haiti throughout the hemisphere, to contextualize the
ways that Haiti has been represented over time, and to look at
Haiti's own cultural expressions in order to think about
alternative ways of imagining its culture and history. Thinking
about Haiti requires breaking through a thick layer of stereotypes.
Haiti is often represented as the region's nadir of poverty, of
political dysfunction, and of savagery. Contemporary media coverage
fits very easily into the narrative of Haiti as a dependent nation,
unable to govern or even fend for itself, a site of lawlessness
that is in need of more powerful neighbors to take control.
Essayists in Haiti and the Americas present a fuller picture,
developing approaches that can account for the complexity of
Haitian history and culture. Carla Calarge, Boca Raton, Florida, is
assistant professor of French and Francophone studies at Florida
Atlantic University. Her work has appeared in French Forum, French
Review, and Presence Francophone, among others. Raphael Dalleo,
Delray Beach, Florida, is associate professor of English at Florida
Atlantic University. He is author of Caribbean Literature and the
Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial and coauthor
of The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature.
Luis Duno-Gottberg, Houston, Texas, is associate professor of
Caribbean studies and film at Rice University. He is the author of
Solventar las diferencias: La ideologia del mestizaje en Cuba and
Albert Camus, Naturaleza: Patria y Exilio. Clevis Headley, Delray
Beach, Florida, is associate professor of philosophy at Florida
Atlantic University. He is the coeditor of Shifting the Geography
of Reason: Gender, Science and Religion.
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