Island People : The Caribbean and the World by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro read online FB2, TXT, PDF
9780385349765 English 0385349769 A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro 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. From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa Maria 's deck in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to the misunderstandings and fantasies of outsiders. Running roughshod over the place, they have viewed these islands and their inhabitants as exotic allure to be consumed or conquered. The Caribbean stood at the center of the transatlantic slave trade for more than three hundred years, with societies shaped by mass migrations and forced labor. But its people, scattered across a vast archipelago and separated by the languages of their colonizers, have nonetheless together helped make the modern world its politics, religion, economics, music, and culture. Jelly-Schapiro gives a sweeping account of how these islands inhabitants have searched and fought for better lives. With wit and erudition, he chronicles this place where globalization began, and introduces us to its forty million people who continue to decisively shape our world.", A masterwork of travel literature: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, the author limns each culture, society, and politics, at the same time illuminating the islands' common heritage of the Caribbean's imagined exotic allure. From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa MarÃa 's deck in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to fantasies projected from without by the West, and viewed as a place to be consumed. It stood at the center of the transatlantic slave trade for more than three hundred years. Its societies were shaped by mass migrations and forced labor from the sixteenth century onward, imposed by European or later, by American imperial masters. Scattered across a vast arc of islands and in some instances separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, the more than forty million Caribbean people today are countering their imperial history by shaping cultural conversation the world over: through literature, music, art, and religion in an era when cultures everywhere are contending with "rootlessness."
9780385349765 English 0385349769 A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro 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. From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa Maria 's deck in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to the misunderstandings and fantasies of outsiders. Running roughshod over the place, they have viewed these islands and their inhabitants as exotic allure to be consumed or conquered. The Caribbean stood at the center of the transatlantic slave trade for more than three hundred years, with societies shaped by mass migrations and forced labor. But its people, scattered across a vast archipelago and separated by the languages of their colonizers, have nonetheless together helped make the modern world its politics, religion, economics, music, and culture. Jelly-Schapiro gives a sweeping account of how these islands inhabitants have searched and fought for better lives. With wit and erudition, he chronicles this place where globalization began, and introduces us to its forty million people who continue to decisively shape our world.", A masterwork of travel literature: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, the author limns each culture, society, and politics, at the same time illuminating the islands' common heritage of the Caribbean's imagined exotic allure. From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa MarÃa 's deck in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to fantasies projected from without by the West, and viewed as a place to be consumed. It stood at the center of the transatlantic slave trade for more than three hundred years. Its societies were shaped by mass migrations and forced labor from the sixteenth century onward, imposed by European or later, by American imperial masters. Scattered across a vast arc of islands and in some instances separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, the more than forty million Caribbean people today are countering their imperial history by shaping cultural conversation the world over: through literature, music, art, and religion in an era when cultures everywhere are contending with "rootlessness."