Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean

Wiebke Beushausen is a researcher and doctoral candidate associated with the Transcultural Studies research group at the University of Heidelberg and a lecturer in International Cultural Studies at the University of Mannheim, Germany. She has finished her PhD thesis on body and gender politics and coming of age in contemporary women's writing of the Caribbean diaspora. Her research interests include Caribbean literatures, feminisms and body studies, diaspora studies, and decolonial and postcolonial approaches.

This volume explores the region's history of resistance and subversion of oppressive structures against the backdrop of the Caribbean's central role for the accumulation of wealth of European and North American actors and the respective dialectics of modernity/coloniality.

Introduction: Narratives, Politics, and Aesthetics of Resistance across the Caribbean and Its Diasporas I. Narratives of/as Resistance: Languages, Poetics, and Politics in Caribbean Literatures 1. Using Folklore to Challenge Contemporary Social Norms: Papa Bois, Mama D'Lo, and Environmentalism in Caribbean Literature 2. Shadows Pass the Surface: Decolonial (Re)Configurations of Indigenous Presence in Merle Collins's The Colour of Forgetting 3. Acts of Translanguaging and Marooning as Forms of Resistance in French Caribbean Literature 4. From Anti-colonial to Anti-modernist Resistance: Historiopoetic Transformations of the Maroon in Selected Works of Édouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant 5. Cultures of Resistance: Dialectical Images of the Haitian Revolution in Haitian Culture and Literature 6. Postcolonial Poetics: El reino de este mundo and the Resistance of lo real maravilloso II. Resistance in/as Activism: From Theory to Practice and Back 7. Caribbean Activism for Slavery Reparations: An Overview 8. Debated Existences, Claimed Histories: Black Indigenous Women's Diasporic Lives in Costa Rica 9. Una Universidad Tomada: Resistance Performances in the (Re)Construction of Spaces of Resistance and Contention during the First Wave of the 2010-2011 University of Puerto Rico Student Movement 10. Troubling Our Intersections: A Caribbean Feminist Methodology as Resistance Approach 11. Practices of Resistance and Cyberfeminism in Cuba 12. Racism vs. Socialism in Cuba: A Misplaced Conflict (Notes on/against Internal Colonialism) 13. "Let us be Moors:" Conversion to Islam in Cuba 14. Thinking Resistance: Critique and Resistance in the Philosophical Concepts of Foucault and in the Postcolonial and Decolonial Theories of Bhabha and Mignolo