Bøger om Caribien

"A parrotfish describes its amazing biological role in producing the sand that beaches are made of"--

"In this modern-day abecedarium, Jamaica Kincaid shares her deep knowledge of plant history and nomenclature while writing about the intersections of the plant world with history, race, mythology, colonial appropriation, and independence. Accompanied by vivid, powerful illustrations by Kara Walker"--

"Too green the springing April grass, / Too blue the silver-speckled sky, / For me to linger here, alas, / While happy winds go laughing by." Amid so much beauty, the speaker is unable to escape the daily reality of backbreaking work, the nights of sheer exhaustion. Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems is a poetry collection by Claude McKay.

"My eyes grew dim, and I could no more gaze; / A wave of longing through my body swept, / And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, / I turned aside and bowed my head and wept." Passing a window filled with fresh tropical fruit, the poet recalls his home in Jamaica. Harlem Shadows is a poetry collection by Claude McKay.

This book offers a typical "opera aperta," as Umberto Eco described similar texts, that is, a challenge that the author throws at the reader, providing him with a couple of keys to decipher the code and then leaving him alone and undisturbed to do his own work of reading and intelligent interpretation. Few things here are explicit or transparent; it is necessary to think, to reflect, to let oneself be carried away, and to tune one's feelings to the content. It is necessary to fill the empty spaces deliberately left by the author so that each reader has the possibility to form his own interpretation and reach his own understanding. If this is achieved, it is a real pleasure. In this aspect, literature will always surpass movies and television series, no matter how sophisticated and accomplished they may be since the reader, unlike the viewer, must do his own casting, look for locations, and compose his own music to accompany the scenes. He is a camera and director at the same time. In other words, he creates his own individualized world that he can then comment on, compare, and evaluate with other fellow readers. Each one, in the course of his reading, creates his own films, which may be somewhat or even quite different from each other.

En O sea-starved, hungry sea, vuelven a las playas las tortugas. Estas fotos son imágenes de un sueño pendulando en la fijeza de los péndulos que sueñan en su trance inmóvil como pájaros que vuelan en su alambre. Los momentos. Me sumerjo en cada una de las instantáneas de Moncada: son sucintas; son sintética composición de vida. --Essaú Landa

A deep meditation on the power and resonance of the sea.In a stunning collection of prose poems, Agosin reflect on the sea as a force of transformation,  a creative force of energy, spirituality, and redemption. She writes about the patterns of the ocean, its moods day and night, and the sea as a constant companion.

The essential political and theoretical work of one of Latin America's most important contemporary theorists.Raquel Gutiéeacute;rrez Aguilar is one of the foremost Latin American political thinkers. From armed Indigenous struggle in the Bolivian altiplano to the contemporary wave of feminist uprisings, Raquel Gutiérrez's life and work have spanned and spurred on some of the most important political sequences in the last forty years in Latin America. Almost unknown in the United States, Raquel is one of the Latin American anticapitalist, antistate Left's most important contemporary theorists. She has produced important work on communal struggles and political forms and has been at the center of some of the most important political organizing in Bolivia and Mexico in the last forty years. This volume presents an extensive interview with Raquel in which she charts her political and intellectual trajectory from her militancy in the Ejército Guerrillero Tupac-Katari, to Bolivia's famous Water and Gas wars, to the massive wave of popular feminist rebellions and organizing. Translator and writer, Brian Whitner offers two essays in translation that contain some of her central theoretical concepts, including the veto and reappropriation of communal wealth, for thinking a politics in common, and of the commons.With the publication of In Defense of Common Life, a new audience of English-language readers can finally engage with the thought and political experience of a thinker and militant, whose contributions to social movements span an incredible political and regional breadth, and resonate deeply with current debates with the US about the conditions and practices of revolutionary change, feminism, and popular struggle.