{"product_id":"caribbean-inhospitality-the-poetics-of-strangers-at-home-hardback-9781978838307","title":"Caribbean Inhospitality; The Poetics of Strangers at Home (Hardback) 9781978838307","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCaribbean Inhospitality\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Poetics of Strangers at Home\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNatalie Lauren Belisle (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978838307\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 February 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e196 pages, 1 color image\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.426 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"In her deeply perceptive, critically adroit study, Belisle reexamines the Caribbean’s long-standing image as a place of hospitality, arguing that the region is constituted as welcoming for the visitor even as its nations deny those conditions to their own citizens. Through a brilliant, broad-reaching analysis, she shows how this inhospitality registers as an aesthetic dimension, making visible forms of displacement that unsettle the meaning of home for Caribbean subjects. A key text for understanding the Caribbean’s paradoxical position in our current moment.\" - Emily A. Maguire (author of Tropical Time Machines: Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean) \"By doing a critical reading of the dynamics of tourist economies and displacement, local versus international, in literary, cultural, performative, and philosophical texts, Natalie Belisle offers an insightful look at the disputes between home, citizen, art, and space that define 'uninhabitable hospitality' in contemporary Caribbean societies. A tour de force and a great contribution to the study of agency and the redemptive power of art and the human in postcolonial and neoliberal Caribbean spaces.\" - Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez (author of Caribes 2.0: New Media, Globalization, and the Afterlives of Disaster)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Caribbean has a global reputation for extending unparalleled hospitality to foreign guests. Yet local citizens express feeling alienated from the Caribbean nations they call home. Here, Natalie Lauren Belisle probes the relationship between these incompatible narratives of Caribbean life. Departing from tourist-centered critiques of the Caribbean’s visitor economy, Belisle instead gives primacy to the political life of the Caribbean citizen-subject within a broader hospitality regime. Reading literary, cinematic, and digital texts that traverse the Spanish, Anglophone, and Francophone Caribbean, Belisle interprets citizens’ estrangement through misdirected political deliberation and demonstrates that \u003ci\u003einhospitality\u003c\/i\u003e is institutionalized through the aesthetic, reproducing itself in the laws that condition belonging and membership in the nation-state. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eCaribbean Inhospitality \u003c\/i\u003erecasts the decay of nation\/state sovereignty in the postcolonial Caribbean within the contours of neoliberalism, international relations, and cosmopolitanism.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: On the Aesthetics of Caribbean Inhospitality\u003cbr\u003e 1          Deliberative Misdirection: The Non-Sense of Caribbean Community in Annalee Davis’\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMigrant Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e and Ana Lydia Vega’\u003cbr\u003es “\u003cbr\u003eJamaica Farewell”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2          Disoriented Citizenship: Misreading Puerto Rico\u003cbr\u003e 3          Freelancing Personhood: Living of the Books in the Outer Spaces of Cuban Writing\u003cbr\u003e 4          Altered States: Bordering the Inhuman in RenÉ\u003cbr\u003e PhiloctÈ\u003cbr\u003ete’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eLe peuple de terres mÊ\u003cbr\u003elÉ\u003cbr\u003ees \u003c\/i\u003eand Pedro Cabiya’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eMalas hierbas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Love beyond Sovereignty\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: In the World, Not of It: On the Aesthetic of Caribbean Inhospitality 1\u003cbr\u003e 1 Deliberative Misdirection: The Non-Sense of Caribbean Community in Annalee Davis’\u003cbr\u003es Migrant and Ana Lydia Vega’\u003cbr\u003es “\u003cbr\u003eJamaica Farewell”\u003cbr\u003e 23\u003cbr\u003e 2 Disoriented Citizenship: Misreading Puerto Rico in the Uncosmopolitan Elsewhere 51\u003cbr\u003e 3 Freelance Personhood: Living Off the Books in the Outer Spaces of Cuban Writing 79\u003cbr\u003e 4 Altered States: Bordering the Inhuman in RenÉ\u003cbr\u003e PhiloctÈ\u003cbr\u003ete’\u003cbr\u003es Le Peuple des terres mÊ\u003cbr\u003elÉ\u003cbr\u003ees and Pedro Cabiya’\u003cbr\u003es Malas hierbas 112\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Loving Beyond (Sovereignty) 143\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 147\u003cbr\u003e Notes 151\u003cbr\u003e Index 000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52640483672344,"sku":"9781978838307","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/caribbean-inhospitality-the-poetics-of-strangers-at-home-hardback-9781978838307","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}