The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean, and: The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition (review)

Cuban Studies ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-183
Author(s):  
Sara E. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Alejo Carpentier ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Culture Of Gender

The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean

Hispania ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Eloy E. Merino ◽  
Linden Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Culture Of Gender

Women and Slavery in the Nineteenth Century

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daina Ramey Berry ◽  
Nakia D. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Enslaved Women ◽  
Chattel Slavery ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Slave Traders ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Nineteenth Century United States ◽  
Kinship Bonds

This chapter analyzes the lives of enslaved women in the nineteenth-century United States and the Caribbean, an era characterized by the massive expansion of the institution of chattel slavery. Framing the discussion through the themes of labor, commodification, sexuality, and resistance, this chapter highlights the wide range of lived experiences of enslaved women in the Atlantic World. Enslaved women’s productive and reproductive labor fueled the global machinery of capitalism and the market economy. Although enslaved women endured the constant exploitation and commodification of their bodies, many actively resisted their enslavement and carved out supportive and sustaining familial, marital, and kinship bonds. In addition, this essay explains how white, native, and black women could be complicit in the perpetuation of chattel slavery as enslavers and slave traders. Considering women in their roles as the oppressed and the oppressors contributes and expands historical understandings of gender and sexuality in relation to slavery.

scholarly journals “La fijeza”: the hope of the temporary progression through the image of the Caribbean location

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 118-129
Author(s):  
Ana Carolina Ochoa Roa
Keyword(s):  
Alejo Carpentier ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Caribbean Studies ◽  
Caribbean Island ◽  
Poetic Image ◽  
Temporal Relationships ◽  
The World ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Beach Resort

 This is a text derivated from the presentation “La fijeza: tiempo y espacio insulares”, in the 38th Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, on June 4th, 2013 at Grenada Grand Beach Resort, Grand Anse, Grenada.Lezama Lima was a Cuban poet, essayist, and novelist considered as well as Alejo Carpentier, one of the greatest figures of the Caribbean island literature. His detailed knowledge of the baroque literature specially Góngora’s poetry, and also his necessity of fixing a Cuban identity, allowed him to propose a very innovative esthetic which goes beyond the disenchantment proper of the baroque. The verses of “La fijeza” are some examples of this vision. In this order of ideas, the purpose of this work in to present the analysis of some poems of “La fijeza” in order to explain the manner in which Lezama distances himself from the baroque disenchantment conception of the world and how, at the same time, he presents verses of hope, identity and universalism by means of presenting the poetic image of the Caribbean scenery and its spatio-temporal relationships in a way to explain a vision of the poetry as privileged way to re-create the world.  

Miami as Stage

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Capó
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Leisure And Recreation ◽  
A Site ◽  
The City ◽  
The U.S

This chapter builds on chapter three in taking seriously boosters’ framing of Miami as a fairyland. It pays particular attention to the ways the city was “staged,” both literally and figuratively, in the American imagination. It notes how theatricality, spectacle, and publicity collided in the urban center to help sell the fairyland to outsiders. It explores some of the powerful metaphors used to market the city’s transgressive identity. Race and empire in particular played key roles in marketing the city for tourist consumption, as Miami boosters measured their city’s success against developments in the Caribbean, especially in Cuba. The chapter also explores the ways the literal stage—in both theater and film—located Miami as a site for white leisure and recreation. Underpinned as it was by racist and colonial practices and ideologies, the idea of Miami as a site for pushing the boundaries of gender and sexuality entered the U.S. imagination.

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