Imaging the Caribbean
Author | : P. Mohammed |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-05-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 0230104495 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780230104495 |
Rating | : 4/5 (495 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Imaging the Caribbean by : P. Mohammed
Download or read book Imaging the Caribbean written by P. Mohammed and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking study of the Caribbean's iconography traces the history of visual representations of the region,as perceived by outsider and insider alike, over the last five hundred years. It circles the Caribbean while focusing on Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Barbados, tracing the parameters drawn on each society by the colonial encounter and drawing from the methodologies and material of history, literature, art, gender, and cultural studies.