Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zone (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252079535)

Drawing 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, Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones explores the multivalent meanings of Caribbean space and community in a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary perspective. From 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.


Author: Carole Boyce Davies
ISBN-10: 0252079531
ISBN-13: 9780252079535
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2013
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d