Bøger om Caribien

Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones pieces together the story of her family and Puerto Rico using a captivating combination of historical facts, poems, maps, and flash essays. Organized around six hurricanes, The Hurricane Book documents the myriad ways in which colonialism has seeped into the lives of Puerto Ricans.

The book provides robust discussions on the ways in which Jamaicans are experiencing flawed democracy; the impact it has not just on the political system and their political participation but also economic development and socio-cultural challenges.

A review of sociological, ecological, and economic influences in youth delinquency and the justice system response in various parts of the Caribbean. The work highlights the importance of addressing the issues of youth now to limit crime in the region.

Through vivid accounts, readers gain an insight into the complex dynamics that force religious activities into narrow state-defined confines. The book is a call to action, prompting reflection and inspiring action by the readers.

Carmencita does not like eating mangoes, but her grandmother shows her how to appreciate the fruit using the five senses.

Carmencita doesn't like eating mangoes, but her grandmother shows her how to appreciate the fruit using the five senses.

"Little Tony learns to master his temper and hold his head high by remembering his grandma's favorite song"--

When a man brings to a remote village two burros, Alfa and Beto, loaded with books the children can borrow, Ana's excitement leads her to write a book of her own as she waits for the BibliBurro to return. Includes glossary of Spanish terms and a note on the true story of Columbia's BiblioBurro and mobile libraries in other countries.

A groundbreaking publication on the Caribbean-born French Neoclassical painter Guillaume Lethière and his extraordinary, yet largely unexamined career

Analyses the struggles for accountability and the resurgence of militarism in Brazil

Free Radicals is the story of a girl who finds herself watching her mother run off with her lover on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. The aftermath makes for the most incredible novel of our times: a saga that reconstructs over six decades in the history of Mexico, the United States, and the world, marking at least four generations. Rosa Beltrán's fascinating journey recreates events that changed history forever: the expansion of communism in Latin America, the student movements of the 1960s, the Moon landing, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, the Cultural Revolution, the dramatic rise of migration, drug trafficking, the social media explosion, and the growth of the middle class. Told in first person, from the retrospective view of the protagonist, the book sheds light on things that once went unnamed, like "domestic violence" or "femicide.">What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, our precocious young protagonist reads in a volume of Nietzsche the day her daredevilish mother leaves her and her siblings behind in search of love, art, and adventure. And the wheels of this family's intimate story thrust the reader headlong into the sweeping history of contemporary Mexico from the 60's student unrest to the present day. A poignant narrative, richly courageous, full of love and laughter in a pitch-perfect translation by Robin Myers.>Rosa Beltrán in English at last! Author of an oeuvre of fierce intelligence and incomparable wit, Beltrán is a bedrock of contemporary Mexican letters. Whether in dazzling essays or in well-researched historical novels, she has proven to be an indispensable witness of our turbulent times. In Free Radicals, her best novel yet, Beltran uses her considerable narrative skills and critical fabulation to bring together three generations of women whose lives--complex. wayward, unique--constitute question marks to the status quo. Just as they are defined in chemistry, these "free radicals" easily react with other molecules, unleashing large change reactions in bodies and society. As intimate as it is subversive, Beltrán¿s view of women in Mexico will not leave you unscathed. - Cristina Rivera Garza, writer What is it about a woman's body that inspires such violence, asks Rosa Beltran's narrator as she tells the tumultous story of three generations of women seeking self-realization and freedom. A runaway mother is at the center of this tale in which women united by family and friendship face the aggression of strangers and intimate partners in a fracturing society. From the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre to the narco-wars of the 80s and 90s and the COVID pandemic, Free Radicals paints a nuanced portrait of Mexico City over the past half century, a place that, in Robin Myer's seamless translation, feels at once familiar and surreal. For those who loved Alfonso Cuarón's 2018 movie Roma, this is a must-read. - D. P. Snyder, writer and translator

"Engaging images accompany information about arapaimas. The combination of high- interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--

"No hay elemento ni detalle baladí dentro de Silicona 5.0. La habilidad de Majfud para construir el mundo con palabras vuelve a Silicona 5.0 en una novela, dentro de su forma, brillantemente escrita. En ella, forma y fondo se corresponden en el mismo binomio, le otorgan una experiencia al lector que no se haya en todos los libros." Jorge Mejía"El autor nos sitúa en una historia totalmente verosímil sobre la creación de un producto de inteligencia artificial, con formato de androide femenino, ideado por un equipo de hombres convencidos de que su masculinidad está definida por el éxito económico. Facundo Walsh Ocampo es un poco lo que somos todos en estos días, alguien que perdió la juventud al vender su alma a un trabajo exitoso y vacío".Yunuén Quiroz Un día, recuperándose de un infarto en su apartamento de Daytona Beach, Facundo Walsh Ocampo descubre que le han robado la identidad y decide cruzar la frontera de México para encontrarse con su substituto. En la búsqueda del falsificador, descubriráuna falsificación mayor, la suya propia. La despiadada competencia por el éxito económico han convertido al protagonista en un robot altamente efectivo, sin memoria y sin identidad propia. De la misma forma, las robots provistas de inteligencia artificial que élmismo vende en Asia sustituyen no solo el sexo sino también el amor y la comprensión de su dueño en un mundo corrompido por la fiebre del consumo y la destrucción del adversario.Con Silicona 5.0 el autor de Crisis vuelve con un contrapunto entre el presente colectivo y la memoria individual, entre la identidad y sus sustitutos, entre la excitación del consumo y la pérdida del factor humano, entre la muerte del presente y el renacimiento del pasado como forma de rescate y redención.

The first academic volume to theorize and historicize contemporary artistic practices and culture from Chile in the English language, Dismantling the Nation takes as its point of departure a radical criticism against the nation-state of Chile and its colonial, capitalist, heteronormative, and extractivist rule, proposing otherwise forms of inhabiting, creating, and relating in more fluid, contingent, ecocritical, feminist, and caring worlds. From the case of Chile, the book expands the scholarly discussion around decolonial methodologies, attending to artistic practices and discourses from distinct and distant locations--from Arica and the Atacama Desert to Wallmapu and Tierra del Fuego, and from the Central Valley, the Pacific coast, and the Andes to territories beyond the nation's modern geographical borders. Analyzing how these practices refer to issues such as the environmental and cultural impact of extractivism, as well as memory, trauma, collectivity, and resistance towards neoliberal totality, the volume contributes to the fields of art history and visual culture, memory, ethnic, gender, and Indigenous studies, filmmaking, critical geography, and literature in Chile, Latin America, and other regions of the world, envisioning art history and visual culture from a transnational and transdisciplinary perspective.

Kayla's trip immerses her into a Caribbean island, exploring the beaches, waterfalls, tropical gardens, markets, and more. A voyage of discovery for this young adventurer!

"In the immediate aftermath of its successful revolution, Cuba was heralded by socialist nations as the vanguard of communism in Latin America in the early 1960s. But by the late 1980s, Cuba's inability to adopt the modes of socialist planning and Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms had deeply soured the relationship between Havana and the Soviet-led Socialist Bloc. While secondary literature often highlights Cuba's political and economic relations with Washington and Moscow, Havana's ideological, political, and economic relations with the East European states have received considerably less attention. This book aims to fill this gap by offering a detailed chronological account of how Cuba's post-revolutionary development was influenced by East European diplomats. Outside of their roles as representatives of their respective states, East European diplomats were entrusted with the task of educating local Cuban leadership in the intricacies of Marxism-Leninism, steering Cuba's governors onto the "correct path of development," helping them eradicate "erroneous ideas" of economic development, and showing them the validity of socialist "morals and ideology." By considering these developments and analyzing firsthand accounts of East European diplomats' experiences in Havana, historian Radoslav Yordanov reconstructs the thinking of East European diplomats and specialists in their dealings with Cuba from the 1960s to the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, shedding new light on Cuba's role in the global Cold War"--

Nan Liv 2 seri premye lektè sa a sou yon ti fi ayisyen-Ameriken ki rele Liline, chat li Pepper, ak fanmi plizyè jenerasyon yo, Liline ak Pepper aprann yon ti kras sou peyi Grann an, Ayiti, pandan woutin maten pou prepare pou lekòl la.

Rankontre Liline, yon elèv matènèl ayisyen-ameriken ak chat sassy li Pepper pandan y ap aprann, eksplore, epi pran plezi nan katye vil yo. Nan Liv 1 nan seri premye lektè Nivo 1 sa a, Liline ak fanmi li dekouvri yon chat epi apre yo fin eseye jwenn fanmi li san chans, san pwoblèm mwen tap kenbe l. Li pran yon ti jan yo chwazi non an pafè men yo finalman fè!

Reveals a New Story of Unexpected Sympathies, Solidarities, and Care in the Guantánamo Borderlands

In this Spanish edition of the acclaimed picture book bursting with vibrance and rhythm, a girl dreams of playing the drums in 1930s Cuba, when the music-filled island had a taboo against female drummers.Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an island filled with music, no one questioned that rule--until the drum dream girl. In her city of drumbeats, she dreamed of pounding tall congas and tapping small bongós. She had to keep quiet. She had to practice in secret. But when at last her dream-bright music was heard, everyone sang and danced and decided that both girls and boys should be free to drum and dream.Inspired by the childhood of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, a Chinese African Cuban girl who broke Cuba's traditional taboo against female drummers, Drum Dream Girl tells an inspiring true story for dreamers everywhere. Now available in Spanish.