Caribbean Romances

Caribbean Romances
Author: Belinda Edmondson
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813918228

Ten young scholars from a variety of disciplines explore how the concept of romance, initially constructed in the imperial imagination of Europe and America, is employed within contemporary Caribbean popular culture and literature to idealize the newly independent, postcolonial societies of the region. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Romance with Voluptuousness

Romance with Voluptuousness
Author: Kamille Gentles-Peart
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2016-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0803295138

Offering a unique vantage point from which to view black women's body image and Caribbean migration, Romance with Voluptuousness illuminates how first- and second-generation immigrant black Caribbean women engage with a thick body aesthetic while living in the United States. Using personal accounts, Romance with Voluptuousness examines the ways in which black women with heritage in the English-speaking Caribbean participate in, perpetuate, and struggle with the voluptuous beauty standard of the black Caribbean while living in the hegemony of thinness cultivated in the United States. It highlights how black Caribbean women negotiate issues of body image deriving from both Caribbean and American pressures to maintain a particular body shape and contend with discourses and practices surrounding the body that aim to marginalize and exclude them from economic, social, and political spaces. By focusing on diasporic Caribbean women's "romance" with voluptuousness, Kamille Gentles-Peart explores the transnational flow of beauty ideals and examines how ideas about beauty in the Caribbean diaspora help to shape the experiences of Caribbean black women in the United States.

What Storm, What Thunder

What Storm, What Thunder
Author: Myriam JA Chancy
Publisher: Tin House Books
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1951142845

American Book Award Winner Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist A NPR, Boston Globe, New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, and Library Journal Best Book of the Year “Stunning.” —Margaret Atwood At the end of a long, sweltering day, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster—Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive with a secret daughter; the daughter, Anne, an architect who drafts affordable housing structures for a global NGO; a small-time drug trafficker, Leopold, who pines for a beautiful call girl; Sonia and her business partner, Dieudonné, who are followed by a man they believe is the vodou spirit of death; Didier, an emigrant musician who drives a taxi in Boston; Sara, a mother haunted by the ghosts of her children in an IDP camp; her husband, Olivier, an accountant forced to abandon the wife he loves; their son, Jonas, who haunts them both; and Ma Lou, the old woman selling produce in the market who remembers them all. Brilliantly crafted, fiercely imagined, and deeply haunting, What Storm, What Thunder is a singular, stunning record, a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster, and—at the same time—an unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit.

A Caribbean Christmas

A Caribbean Christmas
Author: Olivia Noble
Publisher: ThunderWords Press
Total Pages: 332
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Catherine Duncan is down on her luck. Life is stressful enough for the hardworking single mom when she gets unexpectedly fired from her job. Right before Christmas. But her sister is there to cheer her up, with the gift of a vacation to Jamaica, to take her mind off all the stress. Enter Derek--tall, dark, handsome, and everything Cathy needs to refresh her weary spirits, and have some fun for the first time in forever. But Derek is not all that he seems. A businessman with an overbearing father, he ropes Cathy into a fake fiancée agreement that promises to end her financial troubles. Feeling skeptical, but desperate for the money, Cathy wonders if this sexy man will end up turning her Jamaican vacation into a perfect paradise, or a complete nightmare...

A Caribbean Heiress in Paris

A Caribbean Heiress in Paris
Author: Adriana Herrera
Publisher: HQN Books
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2022-05-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0369706293

"A romp-filled and refreshingly diverse historical romance."—Buzzfeed Paris, 1889 The Exposition Universelle is underway, drawing merchants from every corner of the globe…including Luz Alana Heith-Benzan, heiress to the Caña Brava rum empire. Luz Alana set sail from Santo Domingo armed with three hundred casks of rum, her two best friends and one simple rule: under no circumstances is she to fall in love. In the City of Lights, she intends to expand the rum business her family built over three generations, but buyers and shippers alike can’t imagine doing business with a woman…never mind a woman of color. This, paired with being denied access to her inheritance unless she marries, leaves the heiress in a very precarious position. Enter James Evanston Sinclair, Earl of Darnick, who has spent a decade looking for purpose outside of his father’s dirty money and dirtier dealings. Ignoring his title, he’s built a whisky brand that’s his biggest—and only—passion. That is, until he’s confronted with a Spanish-speaking force of nature who turns his life upside down. From their first tempestuous meeting, Luz Alana is conflicted. Why is this titled—and infuriatingly charming—Scottish man so determined to help her? For Evan, every day with Luz Alana makes him yearn for more than her ardent kisses or the marriage of convenience that might save them both. But Luz Alana sailed for Paris prepared to build her business and her future; what she wasn’t prepared for was love finding her. "Herrera excels at propelling the romance genre and its form forward, and this book is no exception... Herrera is crafting swoony historical romances that aren't afraid to engage with the realities of the 19th-century while still making a bid for hard-earned happily-ever-afters."—Entertainment Weekly Can't get enough of the Las Leonas? Book 1: A Caribbean Heiress in Paris Book 2: An Island Princess Starts a Scandal Book 3: A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke

Caribbean Passion (BMWW Interracial Romance Novel)

Caribbean Passion (BMWW Interracial Romance Novel)
Author: Malcolm Jordan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015-02-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781507850824

Demarco Young is a party-loving, handsome black Jamaican who has women tourists falling for his rugged charm. He is brash, confident and a master in the bedroom. April James is the white, spoiled, beautiful, enchanting heiress to a major New York advertising empire, who is used to doing things her way. A chance meeting in a Jamaican night club during her vacation transforms into a steamy, sizzling romance that moves from the island's shores to the heart of the Big Apple, where passions escalate amid a sea of intrigue, as April's father, the rich and powerful Francisco James, is hell-bent on removing his daughter from what he perceives to be the clutches of a Caribbean gigolo. Caribbean Passion is a sexy love story of two individuals drawn from diverse backgrounds and their fight to forge a meaningful relationship. From the reggae laced island of Jamaica to the pulsating streets of New York, theirs is a story filled with passion.

Caribbean Middlebrow

Caribbean Middlebrow
Author: Belinda Edmondson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780801448140

It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture--which is considered derivative of Europe--and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island activities as salsa, carnival, calypso, and reggae. This book recovers a middle ground, a genuine popular culture in the English-speaking Caribbean that stretches back into the nineteenth century. It shows that popular novels, beauty pageants, and music festivals are examples of Caribbean culture that are mostly created, maintained, and consumed by the Anglophone middle class. Much of middle-class culture is further gendered as "female": women are more apt to be considered recreational readers of fiction, for example, and women's behavior outside the home is often taken as a measure of their community's respectability. The book also highlights the influence of American popular culture, especially African American popular culture, as early as the nineteenth century.

Romantic Escapes in the Caribbean

Romantic Escapes in the Caribbean
Author: Paris Permenter
Publisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2010-09-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1588438481

Romance And The Caribbean go hand in hand. How could they not, with sunny days, sultry nights, perfect beaches, tropical splendor, and more fun than could be had in a lifetime? Undecided on which island would best suit you? Your dream vacation awaits in Romantic Escapes in the Virgin Islands, which covers St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Peter Island - all of the US and British Virgin Islands. Each island has a full section on its history, activities and nightlife, As well as scores of listings for lodging and restaurants. Maps and photos throughout. Local festivals, shopping, romantic activities, nightlife, beaches, weddings, sightseeing - it's all here!

Caribbean Cruising

Caribbean Cruising
Author: Rachel Hawthorne
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0061756326

The perfect summer story of a girl, several boys, and a cruise ship full of possibilities. Lindsay has never been on a cruise, but she knows exactly what she wants to do now that she is: climb a waterfall, snorkel, meet lots of cute guys, and look for one perfect guy for a summer fling. But her to-do list isn't going according to plan, especially when she discovers that it's impossible to have a fling-when you're actually falling in love.

Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction

Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction
Author: Hsu-Ming Teo
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2024-06-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040085415

This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories. The novelists discussed employ the generic conventions of romance to narrate their understanding of historical and contemporary injustice and to reflect upon women’s achievements and the price they paid for autonomy and a life of public purpose. The volume seeks, firstly, to discuss the work of revision or reparation being performed by romantic historical fiction and, secondly, to analyse how the past is being repurposed for use in the present. It contends that the discourses and genre of romance work to provide a reparative reading of the past, but there are limitations and entrenched problems in such readings.