Come to Jamaica and Feel All Right: Tourism, Colonial Discourse and Cultural Resistance

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements 1
4. Introduction 3
5. Renegotiating Belief Systems
6. The Pope Must Have Been Drunk, The King of Castile a Madman: Culture as Actuality, and the Caribbean Rethinking Modernity 17
7. A Conflict of Theological Interpretations: Baroque Scholasticism versus Liberation Theology 43
8. Tell Out King Rasta Doctrine Around the Whole World: Rastafari in Global Perspective 57
9. De La Marginalisation à La Déterritorialisation du Rastafari 75
10. Writers Between Worlds
11. Caribbean Canadian Writers: A Literary Forum 93
12. Notes on Latin American-Canadian Literature 111
13. Latin American Writers in Canada: Integration and Distance, Writing at the Crossroads 119
14. Writing in Exile: Writing Nowhere for Nobody? 123
15. Message From the Crossroads 127
16. The Writer in Exile 131
17. Aquí estamos: An Overview of Latin American Writing in Quebec Today 135
18. Le Théâtre de L’Altérité Dans La Compagnie Des Arts Exilio 143
19. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Writers
20. Redefining the Centre: Austin Clarke and Other West Indian Canadian Writers 157
21. Narrative Quilting in Banana Bottom and Voyage in the Dark 175
22. Nature and Imagination: The Bestiary of Dulce María Loynaz 187
23. Poetic Discourse in Babylon: The Poetry of Dionne Brand 199
24. Maître ou Mentor: L’Ombre de Glissant Dans Texaco de Patrick Chamoiseau 219
25. Banished Between Two Worlds: Exiles in Chilean Canadian Literature 229
26. Women’s Word: From Resistance to Challenging the Patriarchal Culture 235
27. “L’Amérique C’est Moi”: Dany Laferrière and the Borderless Text 251
28. Indigenous Cultures: Creative Encounters
29. Culture and Education in Post-colonial Development: A Southern Andean Study 271
30. Yekmaseualkopan: Y-a-t-il Une Manière Moderne D’être Nahua? 291
31. Art as a Formative Force in Latin America: The Reclamation of the Indigenous and Popular Past in the Art of Nicaragua 311
32. Beyond Development and Modernity: Regenerating the Art of Living 319
33. Popular Culture in the Hood
34. Haitian Music in the Global System 339
35. Caribbean Popular Music and Civil Society: The Calypso Arena as Voice of the People 363
36. Come to Jamaica and Feel All Right: Tourism, Colonial Discourse and Cultural Resistance 379
37. Constructing Caribbean Culture in Toronto: The Representation of Caribana 397
38. Cartooning and Development in the Caribbean 409
39. Education and Popular Culture in the Caribbean: Youth Resistance in a Period of Economic Uncertainty 417
40. Myth and Signification in Perry Hensell’s The Harder They Come 437
41. Argentine Commercial Cinema: Industry, Society and Aesthetics, 1983–1989 457
42. Rethinking Identities
43. Identity and Differences in the Caribbean Diaspora: Case Study from Metropolitan Toronto 479
44. L’expression D’une Identité à Travers La Poésie Et Les Chansons Au Nicaragua 499
45. Beautiful Lies: Legitimation of the National Identity in Two Series of Indianist Poems of the Dominican Republic, 1877–1882 519
46. Historical Perspectives
47. Histoire Et Littérature: La Representation De L’année 1938 Dans Deux Romans Chiliens 535
48. La Guadeloupe Dans Tidéarium Et Les Stratégies Du Découvreur: Nouvelles Approches 555
49. Toward an Electronic Hood
50. Navigating the Text: An Exploration in Comparative Cross-Cultural Epistemology 567
51. Notes on Contributors 583