Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging
Autor Vivian Nun Halloranen Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 mar 2023
There is no one way of being Caribbean. Diasporic communities exhibit a broad spectrum of ethnic, racial, religious, linguistic, and political qualities. Claiming a Caribbean American identity asks wider society to recognize and affirm hybridity in ways that challenge binaristic conceptions of race and nationality. Halloran provides a common language and critical framework to discuss the achievements of members of the Caribbean diaspora and their considerable cultural and political capital as evident in their contributions to literature and popular culture.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814215111
ISBN-10: 0814215114
Pagini: 210
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
ISBN-10: 0814215114
Pagini: 210
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Recenzii
“Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging is accessibly written and discusses a remarkable number of contemporary and popular works. Halloran builds off a growing interest in Caribbean and postcolonial studies, forwarding a welcome and compelling approach that moves beyond a single national lens to consider the region as a whole.” —Joseph A. Keith, author of Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945–1960
Notă biografică
Vivian Nun Halloran is Professor of English and Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington. She is also the author of The Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora.
Extras
This study analyzes how Caribbean American cultural works and performances of belonging within the United States point to a new direction in diaspora studies. The backward homeward look is no longer the sole paradigm through which Caribbean Americans understand and represent their experiences of living within the United States. To appreciate the impact of this change and its future ramifications, scholars must consider how US-based Americans of Caribbean heritage have developed new networks not only to better reflect their own intersectionality as people who face multiple oppressions at once but also to map out how strategic partnerships with other groups can work to dismantle systemic oppression. For those who trace their heritage to the Caribbean basin, belonging to the United States is not an either/or choice but rather a “yes, and” to borrow a phrase from improv comedy. Being American no longer requires full assimilation to dominant white society or the social pressure to give up one’s connection to Caribbean culture and heritage. Binaristic approaches to discussing race and power can be clarifying, but in their refusal to recognize hybridity, they can become barriers to progress that close off potential alliances and exclude whole communities from the wider movement for reform and justice.
As the opening examples demonstrate, there is an undeniable Puerto Rican bias in my selection of primary texts and examples drawn from current events for this project. That is due, in part, to my own background and predilections as a Puerto Rican woman whose family moved to the mainland United States during my teenage years. Given my upbringing and inclinations, I find it natural to be more attuned to (and celebrate) my fellow Boricuas’ presence within American culture than to other Caribbean American contributions. As a Caribbean studies scholar, I look beyond my own background and specifically place the Puerto Rican texts I analyze in conversation with those by other Caribbean American interlocutors. As both cultural actors and subject matter for visual, musical, and performative entertainment, Puerto Ricans have been part of American popular culture for over a century. The sheer abundance of material by and about Puerto Ricans explains the overrepresentation of this type of Caribbean American experience in the case studies I examine throughout this volume but this affinity and impulse to celebrate is undoubtedly a contributing factor as well.
Notably absent from my investigation are texts by artists or writers from the US Virgin Islands, the other American territory within the Caribbean purchased from Denmark in 1917. Ten years later in 1927, Virgin Islanders were granted citizenship, which put them on a par with Puerto Ricans in the in-between world of territorial status since the United States seized control of Puerto Rico in 1898 after the Spanish-American War and extended US citizenship to islanders in 1917 through the passage of the Jones-Shafroth Act. Virgin Islanders and Puerto Ricans became colonial subjects when the United States laid claim to both the peoples (US citizens) and their islands (US territories) as its legal possessions. This type of “belonging” involves unidirectional ownership and it is beyond the bounds of what this study will cover. Citizenship and territorial/legislative oversight are legal statuses that govern impersonal processes like call for a different intellectual framework that lies outside the scope of this work. Instead, this study will focus on the personal and lived experience individuals narrate or perform.
As the opening examples demonstrate, there is an undeniable Puerto Rican bias in my selection of primary texts and examples drawn from current events for this project. That is due, in part, to my own background and predilections as a Puerto Rican woman whose family moved to the mainland United States during my teenage years. Given my upbringing and inclinations, I find it natural to be more attuned to (and celebrate) my fellow Boricuas’ presence within American culture than to other Caribbean American contributions. As a Caribbean studies scholar, I look beyond my own background and specifically place the Puerto Rican texts I analyze in conversation with those by other Caribbean American interlocutors. As both cultural actors and subject matter for visual, musical, and performative entertainment, Puerto Ricans have been part of American popular culture for over a century. The sheer abundance of material by and about Puerto Ricans explains the overrepresentation of this type of Caribbean American experience in the case studies I examine throughout this volume but this affinity and impulse to celebrate is undoubtedly a contributing factor as well.
Notably absent from my investigation are texts by artists or writers from the US Virgin Islands, the other American territory within the Caribbean purchased from Denmark in 1917. Ten years later in 1927, Virgin Islanders were granted citizenship, which put them on a par with Puerto Ricans in the in-between world of territorial status since the United States seized control of Puerto Rico in 1898 after the Spanish-American War and extended US citizenship to islanders in 1917 through the passage of the Jones-Shafroth Act. Virgin Islanders and Puerto Ricans became colonial subjects when the United States laid claim to both the peoples (US citizens) and their islands (US territories) as its legal possessions. This type of “belonging” involves unidirectional ownership and it is beyond the bounds of what this study will cover. Citizenship and territorial/legislative oversight are legal statuses that govern impersonal processes like call for a different intellectual framework that lies outside the scope of this work. Instead, this study will focus on the personal and lived experience individuals narrate or perform.
Cuprins
Introduction Performing Caribbean Americanness
Part 1 Shaping a More Perfect Union
Chapter 1 A Vision of Belonging in Political Campaign Books and Civic Memoirs
Chapter 2 “Big Citizens” and Public Advocacy
Part 2 Coming of Age
Chapter 3 Picturing Caribbean American Childhoods
Chapter 4 Education, Love, and Belonging in Young Adult Fiction
Chapter 5 Miles Morales as Multimodal Caribbean American Superhero
Part 3 Seeing Ourselves Reflected Back
Chapter 6 Visualizing Belonging
Chapter 7 Staging Caribbean American Lives in the Shadow of West Side Story
Conclusion Aspirational Whiteness and the Limits of Belonging
Part 1 Shaping a More Perfect Union
Chapter 1 A Vision of Belonging in Political Campaign Books and Civic Memoirs
Chapter 2 “Big Citizens” and Public Advocacy
Part 2 Coming of Age
Chapter 3 Picturing Caribbean American Childhoods
Chapter 4 Education, Love, and Belonging in Young Adult Fiction
Chapter 5 Miles Morales as Multimodal Caribbean American Superhero
Part 3 Seeing Ourselves Reflected Back
Chapter 6 Visualizing Belonging
Chapter 7 Staging Caribbean American Lives in the Shadow of West Side Story
Conclusion Aspirational Whiteness and the Limits of Belonging
Descriere
Analyzes an archive of contemporary cultural artifacts to show how Americans of Caribbean heritage narrate and celebrate their contributions to politics, art, and activism.