Cambridge Publishing Scholars
Cultural traditions transmitted within the primary and secondary migratory communities of the Caribbean are continually subject to loss, gain and reinterpretation. Communication practices play a role in these processes as they help to sustain and challenge the diasporic subjectivities of the Caribbean. This volume seeks to explore the influence of embodied, discursive and mediated communicative forms on the construction and maintenance of Caribbean diasporic communities.
The objectives for the book are two-fold. The general objective is to contribute to discourse on diasporic identity and performativity. The more specific aim of the book is to present a more complex picture of peoples from the Caribbean region and their diasporic communities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Kamille Gentles-Peart and Maurice L. Hall
Part I: Media and the Caribbean Diaspora
Virile Bodies, Docile Subjects: The Representation of Black Caribbean Masculinities in Mainstream International Media Targeting Female T ouristsNickesia S. Gordon
(Mis) Perception of American Media Reality: Narrating Dissonance in the Actuality of Cultural Assimilation
Jennifer M. Keane-Dawes
Indo-Caribbean Folk Music from Oral Tradition to Cyberculture
Peter Manuel
Part II: Cultural Performances and Caribbean Identity
Play Mas: The Forging of a Caribbean Diaspora
Ken Archer
Reasoning on Rastafari: African Authenticity, Caribbean Identity and Mass Popularity
Osei Alleyne
Shango Dances Across the Water: Music and the Re-Construction of Trinidadian Orisha in New York City
Ryan Bazinet
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Kamille Gentles-Peart, PhD, is currently Assistant Professor of Communication at Roger Williams University, Rhode Island, USA.
Maurice L. Hall, PhD, is Chair and Associate Professor in the Communication Department at Villanova University, Pennsylvania, USA.
