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	Caribbean Literature:ABOUT
		Caribbean literature is usually conceptualized in regional, thematic, and post-independence ideological terms.
		The rest of the book discusses 20th-century Caribbean literature, the dialogic relationship between modern and early modern works, and the contribution of women writers to the progression of the Caribbean narrative at the close of the 20th century.
		As a group, Latino Caribbeans write an ethnic literature in English that is born of their struggle to forge an identity separate from both the influences of their parents' culture and those of the United States.
	www.caribbeaninspired.com /caribbean/books/caribbean-literature1.htm (1528 words)

	Study in the Caribbean
		The Caribbean, (Spanish: Caribe; French: Caraïbe or more commonly Antilles; Dutch: Cariben or Caraïben, or more commonly Antillen) or the West Indies, is a group of islands and countries which are in or border the Caribbean Sea which lies on the Caribbean Plate.
		The countries and islands of the Caribbean are located to the south and east of Mexico and to the north and west of Venezuela, South America.
		The region known as "Caribbean" is usually restricted to the islands of the Caribbean Sea, although sometimes the continental American coastline is included.
	www.studyoverseas.com /f_caribbean.htm (385 words)

	Christopher Cozier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Caribbean people often mobilize the discourse of tradition in a number of different ways, which are of considerable interest to the critic.
		An attempt to develop a critical Caribbean modernism has been further hampered by its links to a discourse of creole nationalism, which is on examination profoundly elitist in its premises; the reality of the existence and perpetuation of white privilege in the post-independence era; and the relationship of both to anti-fl racism.
		It is little wonder that Caribbean critics affirm that the contemporary Caribbean nation-state faces a serious crisis of legitimacy, whether they dub it a postcolony, or suggest that it exists under conditions of neo-colonialism, or re-colonization.
	www.smallaxe.net /sxspace/works_chris.html (1828 words)

	Talk Yu Talk:interviews with anglophone caribbean poets.
		Caribbean poets are a decidedly distinct group of writers because of the peculiar cultural hybridization that is endemic to the Caribbean.
		The book demonstrates the impact that women writers have had on Caribbean poetry in the past twenty five years even as it explores the lively debate surrounding the interplay between popular art forms like reggae, calypso, folk songs and Eurocentric forms of literary practice.
		In this sense, this is a seminal work of immense importance to Caribbean literary studies and to the study of poetry in general.
	www.kwamedawes.com /talkexcerpt.htm (1171 words)

	What constitutes the Caribbean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Anglophones in the region usually speak and think of the Caribbean as meaning the English-speaking islands, or the member states of the Caribbean Community (Caricom).
		Among scholars, “the Caribbean” is a socio-historical category, commonly referring to a cultural zone characterised by the legacy of slavery and the plantation system.
		Anglophones still display a certain discomfort with the expansive definition of the region: they guard their “West Indian” identity jealously and appear to fear domination by the more populous Hispanic counties.
	www.acs-aec.org /About/SG/Girvan/Speeches/rei1.htm (2354 words)

	BBCCaribbean.com \| The Week in Europe
		For nearly half a century Caribbean politicians and officials have described the English speaking part of the region as being democratic, respecting of the rule of law, secure, stable, agriculturally based and uncompromising on sovereignty.
		In the Anglophone Caribbean, Trinidad seems intent on encouraging closer economic integration with the United States while expanding its regional vision to embrace other relationships with Latin neighbours.
		Perhaps for the first time ever in Anglophone Caribbean history, in Guyana, an internationally wanted criminal with narcotics and arms trafficking connections has made political statements that seek to involve him in the mainstream of public life along with those who given the chance, would violently usurp authority from the state.
	www.bbc.co.uk /caribbean/news/story/2006/06/060606_jessopjune5.shtml (1040 words)

	CNR SAS International Studies Program -- Eastern Caribbean abstract
		Instead the political existence of Caribbean was characterized by a “climate of isolation and petty jealousies.” The historical mission of the current generation is to cultivate the same symmetry that was broken into pieces, taken for granted and eventually at some point almost totally destroyed.
		Caribbean nation-states are not unproductive and chaotic; their peoples are quite to the contrary.
		The Eastern Caribbean is at the critical juncture as political leadership is being passed on to an entirely new generation.
	www.cnr.edu /home/sas/ISP/abstract4.html (2007 words)

	Selwyn R. Cudjoe - Identity and Caribbean Literature
		In speaking of identity and the Anglophone Caribbean literary experience, it is necessary to emphasize that all such discussions/analyses should include the experiences of all of the groups and the unique ways in which they experienced the Caribbean.
		Anglophone Caribbean literature is an offshoot of African oral literature (most island inhabitants came from West Africa).
		Necessarily, this movement was tied to the growing self-assertiveness of the Caribbean nationalist parties, the decolonization process, and the increased agitation of the labour unions.
	www.trinicenter.com /Cudjoe/2001/June/24062001b.htm (2375 words)

	UPR RP English Department - Course Catalog - Doctoral Degree - Courses: 8000-8999
		The history and development of anglophone Caribbean poetry and poetic oral expression, and the emergence of the impressive body of formal poetry written over the past fifty years.
		A close examination of the development of 20th century Caribbean drama and performance as a cultural mosaic that reflects (1) syncretic folk festivals, plays, masquerades, and spectacles, (2) the formal theater, and (3) the social milieu of the postcolonial Caribbean.
		This course is a survey of the growing body of academic work that focuses on the role of language in the construction of socio-political discourses and systems, written by specialists from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including: linguistics, communication, literary criticism, philosophy, history, political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, psychology, education, ethnic studies, and gender studies.
	humanidades.uprrp.edu /ingles/catalog/8000.htm (733 words)

	Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970-2001 — www.greenwood.com
		Caribbean poetry was influenced by the American Black Power movement during the 1970s, and women poets began to contribute their voices throughout the 1980s.
		Caribbean poets have, in turn, gained greater access to publishing outlets, resulting in a wider international readership and a corresponding increase in scholarly and critical studies.
		In addition, the volume includes a chronology, a discussion of the history of Anglophone Caribbean poetry, and extensive indexes.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/GR1747.aspx (252 words)

	Anglophone Caribbean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term Anglophone Caribbean is used to refer to the independent English-speaking countries of the Caribbean region.
		Upon a country's full independence from the United Kingdom, Anglophone Caribbean traditionally becomes the preferred sub-regional term as a replacement to British West Indies.
		The Anglophone Caribbean still make up a composite cricket team that successfully competes in test matches and one-day internationals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anglophone_Caribbean (180 words)

	Small Axe--Deconstructing Nationalisms: Henry Swanzy, Caribbean Voices and the Development of West Indian Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although the birth of Caribbean literature in the English-speaking Caribbean is linked imaginatively to the struggle of laboring forces in the region and to the agitation for political independence, the narrative of nationalism, which generally speaks of a coherent and unified ontology, is not typically represented in the literature of the region.
		Thus a regional, and even more important for the postcolonial formation of individual nation-states in the anglophone Caribbean, a national literature was a sign of the nation'ws capacity to reason and, by extension, to govern its own affairs.
		The first is the suggestion that a developing concern with increasing BBC broadcasts to the anglophone Caribbean was not entirely devoid of political interest in the burgeoning nationalism and agitation for political independence in the region.
	iupjournals.org /smallaxe/sm10.html (8030 words)

	Polyrhythm and the Caribbean
		Although many words in the Anglophone Caribbean have their source in the influence of different imperial powers clashing together (as in St. Lucia, which went back and forth between French and British control at least fourteen times), Allsopp looks elsewhere for roots of this version of English.
		As a cross-referencing exercise in the labelling of the Caribbean ecology and the idioms of the regional life-style, as a record, through the large availability of citations of the sameness-with-differences in the historical and social background to the wide spread of Caribbean literature, Caribbean lexicography is equipped to function as a cultural agent.
		The expansion of the Indic sub-culture in the mainstream of Caribbean culture is, however, relatively on a much larger scale and wider spread, especially in the Eastern Caribbean, and this is reflected in the Dictionary.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /caribbean/themes/rhythm/language3.html (1154 words)

	Government Dominica Caribbean Regional
		Caribbean Net NewsDominica has no interest in playing the 'two-China game' says PMCaribbean Net News, Cayman Islands - Dec 28, 2006Dominica's Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, has stated that his Government has "no interest, or no intention or no thoughts, no aspiration to seek to play...
		Visa Ease For Families Coming to Caribbean During Cricket World CupEarthtimes.org - Jan 5, 2007"The Bureau of the Heads of Government made it absolutely clear that theyare not making any changes to structure to the visa regime but that we woulddefer...
		Visa Ease For Families Coming to Caribbean During Cricket World CupPR Newswire UK (press release), UK - Jan 5, 2007This new date is two weeks later than the January 15 target set earlier for the cricket host countries and Dominica to operate special border regulations...
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Regional/Caribbean/Dominica/Government (319 words)

	Caribbean Shadows and Victorian Ghosts by Kathleen Renk
		This image of the traditional family--based upon the supposed natural superiority of white elders--also served as a paradigm for the relationship of the British to their colonial subjects during the Victorian era.
		In Caribbean Shadows and Victorian Ghosts, Kathleen Renk demonstrates how contemporary Anglophone Caribbean women's writing radically subverts the powerful myth of the family as it is constructed in nineteenth-century British and colonial texts.
		Because it is the first book to examine the vital textual connections between Victorian and Anglophone Caribbean literatures, and because it draws on the work of sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and feminist and postcolonial theorists, the book should have wide-ranging appeal.
	www.upress.virginia.edu /books/renk.html (241 words)

	Caribbean Poetry -- Nation Language
		Although English is the official national language of many islands in the Caribbean, the people who live in the Caribbean speak in something other than the standard norm.
		Another way that Caribbean writing breaks away from the strictness of iambic pentameter (which is not how people speak naturally) is through the use of conversation.
		Ultimately, nation language is one method that people from the Caribbean use to reclaim (or to form) their individual identity as a people.
	www.courses.vcu.edu /ENG-snh/Caribbean/Barbados/Caribbean/lanuage.htm (1083 words)

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		The Caribbean is a meeting place of all the world’s cultures.
		Caribbean children, like children the world over, grow up singing and playing games which shape the attitudes and expectations of our roles in later life.
		It was awarded a special prize by the Caribbean Community for its role in the Caribbean Integration Movement.
	www.pancaribbean.com /banyan/catalog2.htm (2311 words)

	Society for Caribbean Linguistics - FAQs
		It would sound decidedly odd to Caribbean ears to say "I'm a Caribbean living in the Caribbean." 'Caribbean' is never used as a noun by Caribbean people in the Caribbean to describe or refer to themselves, and is in fact considered strange, and/or viewed negatively as non-standard usage.
		The vast majority of West Indians in anglophone, francophone and Dutch-speaking islands do speak the creole language of their territory as a mother tongue, and these Creole speakers may or may not be fluent in the official language of their territory.
		Up to the 1960s, since anglophone Caribbean territories began to gain independence from 1962 onward, most varieties of Caribbean English were identified with British English, because of politics, and despite linguistic differences (some conservative, some progressing in different directions).
	www.scl-online.net /scllanguage_home_en.php?id=4 (5587 words)

	"Gacetilla Digital del IESALC" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The report confirms that virtual education is still on its threshold in the Caribbean and that efforts are being made by the different governments in order to introduce technology in higher education institutions, to finally foster distance education in the region and "demolish" educational elitism.
		To illustrate in numbers the situation of Caribbean countries in the e-environment, Koul presents a regional profile chart for year 2002 showing that,, in terms of legal preparedness, Cayman Islands and Trinidad and Tobago were the best e-ready Caribbean countries, with 1.67 point average each of 2.
		To summarize, the effectiveness and quality of distance/virtual education in the Caribbean, compared to the international scenario, is a matter of concern for academics.
	www.iesalc.unesco.org.ve /gacetilla/gacetillaplantilla46.htm (621 words)

	Caribbean cuisine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Caribbean cuisine is a fusion of Spanish, French, African, Amerindian and Indian cuisine.
		Curried goat and chicken are eaten throughout the Anglophone Caribbean islands, penetrating much farther into the Caribbean than have the Indians who introduced them to the region over 150 years ago.
		Callaloo is a soup-like dish widely distributed in the Caribbean, with a distinctively mixed African and indigenous character.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caribbean_cuisine (853 words)

	International Englishes
		Creole Languages of the Caribbean Area: A Comparison of the Grammar of Jamaican Creole with Those of the Creole Languages of Haiti, the Antilles, the Guianas, the Virgin Islands, and the Dutch West Indies.
		Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language Literature, and Identity.
		Caribbean Language Issues, Old and New: Papers in Honour of Professor Mervyn Alleyne on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday.
	www.wright.edu /~martin.kich/IntEng/Caribbean.htm (486 words)

	Ian Randle Publishers - Book Review
		Their dissertations on the institutions of slavery were preoccupied with the rural reality, which was the same that textbooks did, generally, even internationally.
		Consequently, it is this lacuna he addresses, while respecting the works of historians and sociologists who have written on cross-Atlantic slavery from the Anglophone Caribbean perspective, such as Elsa Goveia, Orlando Patterson, and Kamau Brathwaite.
		Welch's work certainly comes as an oasis regarding the historiography of slavery in the Commonwealth Caribbean, in that it is the first academic work that focuses in such a systematic and sustained manner on the institution of slavery in Barbados.
	www.ianrandlepublishers.com /review4.htm (732 words)

	SCL Frequently Asked Questions
		The term Eastern Caribbean often refers to the nine-member Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) which share a common currency, the EC dollar (Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Lucia, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, and also Anguilla, and the BVI).
		'Caribbean' is never used as a noun by Caribbean people in the Caribbean to describe or refer to themselves, and is in fact considered odd, and/or viewed negatively as non-standard usage.
		Anglophone Caribbean people call themselves 'West Indians' or 'Caribbean people'; francophone Caribbean people call themselves 'antillais'; hispanophone Caribbean people call themselves 'caribeños', and Dutch-speaking Caribbean people call themselves 'Caraïbisch' or 'Antillean' in English (this is subject to correction!).
	www.scl-online.net /faq.html (5724 words)

	CARICOM, the ACS, and Caribbean Survival
		One of the significant developments of the 1990s was the expansion of certain traditional regional structures in the Anglophone Caribbean to embrace non-English speaking countries.
		A third instance was the failure of the ACS to become a forum for the discussion and negotiation of the proposal for a Strategic Alliance between the Caribbean and Central America launched by President Fernandez of the Dominican Republic in 1997.
		Its raison d’etre is that since the countries of the Caribbean basin share a common geographic space and have a common heritage in the form of the Caribbean Sea, they share certain common long-term interests.
	www.acs-aec.org /About/SG/Girvan/Speeches/caricom_acs.htm (3149 words)

	Economy - Dominican Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		That is to say one that brings together the independent Anglophone Caribbean and Haiti (Caricom) with the Dominican Republic and in some as yet unspecified way, the Overseas Territories of Britain and Holland and the French DÃ©partements d'outre mer.
		Perversely, in an Anglophone Caribbean in which differing scales of economic development continue to bedevil the economic integration process, some may see this as providing an opportunity to walk away or to continue to delay.
		If this is the outcome, it raises fundamental questions about which of the now very different ideas of Caribbean that exist in the region will succeed, and where Europe and North America might place their long term emphasis in their Caribbean relationship.
	www.dominicantoday.com /app/article.aspx?id=14105 (1183 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The conference is motivated by the unprecedented blossoming of queer Caribbean literature over the past decade, said conference organizer Natasha Tinsley, a postdoctoral fellow in Comparative Literature, who earned her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley.
		As with most literary traditions, gender has always been a significant issue in Spanish American writing: from the feminized characterization of the landscape by early European explorers to the complex representations of transgendered subjectivity in contemporary novels, gender has constituted a mechanism of both empowerment and counter-hegemonic criticism.
		Through the careful assessment of gender in contemporary narratives, drama and films, we will analyze how and to what extent the articulation of gendered subjectivity within these works problematizes, subverts or lays claim to a legitimacy (and, by extension, an authority) that is presumably not found within traditional models of normativity.
	lycos.com /info/caribbean-literature.html?page=2 (422 words)

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