{"product_id":"caribbean-spaces-escapes-from-twilight-zone-hardback-9780252038020","title":"Caribbean Spaces; Escapes from Twilight Zone (Hardback) 9780252038020","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCaribbean Spaces\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEscapes from Twilight Zone\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarole Boyce Davies (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252038020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 October 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages, 28 black and white photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.513 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\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Persuasive and comprehensive, \u003cu\u003eCaribbean Spaces\u003c\/u\u003e achieves an intriguing sequence of intricate journeys through Caribbean and African diasporic cultural spaces, political landscapes, historiographies, and literary-artistic terrains, each keenly observed. The result is a powerful engagement of the politics and realities of diaspora with black women's histories in particular.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e--Thomas Glave, author of \u003cu\u003eAmong the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"I can't think of a book that better combines the experiential with the theoretical, the political with the commonsensical, in prose that is lyrical, evocative, and lucid.\"--Kenneth A. McClane, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Literature, Cornell University\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Eminently readable and often entertaining… Instead of going easy on the spices, Boyce Davies provides us with a savory feast of experiences, memories, and reflections on her personal and professional life.\"--\u003ci\u003eResearch in African Literatures\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eDrawing on both personal experience and critical theory, Carole Boyce Davies illuminates the dynamic complexity of Caribbean culture and traces its migratory patterns throughout the Americas. Both a memoir and a scholarly study, \u003cu\u003eCaribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones\u003c\/u\u003e explores the multivalent meanings of Caribbean space and community in a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary perspective.\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eFrom her childhood in Trinidad and Tobago to life and work in communities and universities in Nigeria, Brazil, England, and the United States, Carole Boyce Davies portrays a rich and fluid set of personal experiences. She reflects on these movements to understand the interrelated dynamics of race, gender, and sexuality embedded in Caribbean spaces, as well as many Caribbean people's traumatic and transformative stories of displacement, migration, exile, and sometimes return. Ultimately, Boyce Davies reestablishes the connections between theory and practice, intellectual work and activism, and personal and private space.\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003eCover\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003eTitle Page\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003eContents\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003eIntroduction. Caribbean Spaces: Reflective Essays\/Creative-Theoretical Circulations\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003e1. Between the Twilight Zone and the Underground Railroad: \"\u003cbr\u003eOwega\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003e2. Reimagining the Caribbean: Seeing, Reading, Thinking\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003e3. Caribbean\/American: The Portable Black Self in Community\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003e4. Spirit Scapes: From Brazil to the Caribbean\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003e5. Middle Passages: Movable Borders and Ocean-Air Space Mobility\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003e6. Women, Labor, and the Transnational: From Work to Work\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003e7. Connecting Stories: My Grandmother's Violin\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003e8. \"\u003cbr\u003eChanging Locations\"\u003cbr\u003e: Literary Pathways of Caribbean Migration\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003e9. \"\u003cbr\u003eHaiti, I Can See Your Halo!\"\u003cbr\u003e: Living on Fault Lines\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003e10. Caribbean GPS: Compasses of Racialization\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003e11. Circulations: Caribbean Political Activism\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003e12. My Father Died a Second Time\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003e13. Postscript: Escape Routes\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003eBibliography\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003eIndex\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520661975320,"sku":"9780252038020","price":62.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/caribbean-spaces-escapes-from-twilight-zone-hardback-9780252038020","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}