Caribbean military encounters. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Shalini Puri, Lara Putnam, editors.
• Editors: Puri, Shalini; Putnam, Lara
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Subjects of Militarization; Lara Putnam and Shalini Puri -- 2. The Haitian Military as a Family Affair; Chelsey Kivland -- 3. British West Indian Memories of World War One: From Militarized Citizenship to Conscientious Objection; Richard Smith -- 4. Writing War and Empire: Poetry, Patriotism, and Public Claims-Making in the British Caribbean; Reena N. Goldthree -- 5. Occupied Thoroughfares: Haitian Women, Public Space, and the United States Occupation, 1915-1924; Grace L. Sanders Johnson -- 6. Base Impulses: Sex Work and the Military in Trinidadian Literature on World War Two; Shalini Puri -- 7. Killing Mapepe: Race, Sex and Colonial Politics in Cold War Vieques; Katherine T. McCaffrey and Bonnie Donohue -- 8. The Anguilla Revolution and Operation Sheepskin; Don E. Walicek -- 9. Pensions, Politics, and Soul Train: Anglo-Caribbean Diasporic Encounters with Guantánamo from the War to the Special Period; Andrea Queeley -- 10. Cuban Narratives of War: Memories of Angola; Marisabel Almer -- 11. In "The Back Yard": Experiencing War in the Greater Caribbean (A Photo-Essay); Jenny Matthews -- 12. A "Parvenu Predator"? When the Kill Zone and the Contact Zone Collide on the Isle of Spice; John C. Nelson -- 13. Mourning María Pantalones: Military Rule and the Politics of Race, Citizenship, and Nostalgia in Panama; Aims McGuinness -- 14. Half-Mast: Shifting Landscapes of Protest and Demilitarization in Vieques; Daniel Arbino -- 15. Public Secrets, Militarization, and the Cultivation of Doubt: Kingston 2010; Deborah A. Thomas -- 16. "Who Going to Guard These Guards?" The Treatment of the Military in the Calypso; Louis Regis -- 17. Music and Militarization: Soca, Space, and Security; Jocelyne Guilbault -- 18. Interdict: Scenes of Military Maritime Encounter in the Caribbean; April Shemak -- Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 972.9; Literature; HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General; HISTORY -- Military -- General; Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; Postcolonial/World Literature; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Cultural and Media Studies, general; History of the Americas; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Social Science -- General; History -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Literary theory; Cultural studies; Society & culture: general; History of the Americas; Literature ; Literary studies: from c 1900; Caribbean Area -- History, Military; Caribbean Area; Electronic books; Military history
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137580146; 1137580143; 1137590580; 9781137590589
• Related ISBNs: 1137590580; 9781137590589
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 6, 2017).
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