Horizon, Sea, Sound

Horizon, Sea, Sound
Author: Andrea A. Davis
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2022-01-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0810144603

In Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation, Andrea Davis imagines new reciprocal relationships beyond the competitive forms of belonging suggested by the nation-state. The book employs the tropes of horizon, sea, and sound as a critique of nation-state discourses and formations, including multicultural citizenship, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and the hierarchical nuclear family. Drawing on Tina Campt’s discussion of Black feminist futurity, Davis offers the concept future now, which is both central to Black freedom and a joint social justice project that rejects existing structures of white supremacy. Calling for new affiliations of community among Black, Indigenous, and other racialized women, and offering new reflections on the relationship between the Caribbean and Canada, she articulates a diaspora poetics that privileges our shared humanity. In advancing these claims, Davis turns to the expressive cultures (novels, poetry, theater, and music) of Caribbean and African women artists in Canada, including work by Dionne Brand, M. NourbeSe Philip, Esi Edugyan, Ramabai Espinet, Nalo Hopkinson, Amai Kuda, and Djanet Sears. Davis considers the ways in which the diasporic characters these artists create redraw the boundaries of their horizons, invoke the fluid histories of the Caribbean Sea to overcome the brutalization of plantation histories, use sound to enter and reenter archives, and shapeshift to survive in the face of conquest. The book will interest readers of literary and cultural studies, critical race theories, and Black diasporic studies.

The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean

The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean
Author: Sharika D. Crawford
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2020-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469660229

Illuminating the entangled histories of the people and commodities that circulated across the Atlantic, Sharika D. Crawford assesses the Caribbean as a waterscape where imperial and national governments vied to control the profitability of the sea. Crawford places the green and hawksbill sea turtles and the Caymanian turtlemen who hunted them at the center of this waterscape. The story of the humble turtle and its hunter, she argues, came to play a significant role in shaping the maritime boundaries of the modern Caribbean. Crawford describes the colonial Caribbean as an Atlantic commons where all could compete to control the region's diverse peoples, lands, and waters and exploit the region's raw materials. Focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Crawford traces and connects the expansion and decline of turtle hunting to matters of race, labor, political and economic change, and the natural environment. Like the turtles they chased, the boundary-flouting laborers exposed the limits of states' sovereignty for a time but ultimately they lost their livelihoods, having played a significant role in legislation delimiting maritime boundaries. Still, former turtlemen have found their deep knowledge valued today in efforts to protect sea turtles and recover the region's ecological sustainability.

Marine Life of the Caribbean

Marine Life of the Caribbean
Author: Alick Rowe Jones
Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2002
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

This book talks about providing the US with a national strategy that focusses on exploiting its advantage, as a strategic broker, in crafting agreements on the rules for technological competition and the principles for military integration while being mor

Pirates of the Caribbean: A Storm at Sea

Pirates of the Caribbean: A Storm at Sea
Author: Bess Bones
Publisher: Disney Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2007-05-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781423106197

Based on the successful Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise, this new series of full-color, illustrated readers will tell /DIV all-new tales about life and adventure on the Seven Seas. Each book is approximately 500 words long, with short sentences and simple vocabulary to appeal to beginning readers. DIVCaptain Jack Sparrow is in trouble! The Royal Navy is hot on his trail, his crew is unhappy, and there's a hurricane coming. Will Jack be able to sail through this stormy situation?

The Law of the Sea in the Caribbean

The Law of the Sea in the Caribbean
Author: The Hon Justice Winston Anderson
Publisher: Publications on Ocean Developm
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2022
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9789004503175

"This book is about the Law of the Sea in the Caribbean and the contribution of that law to economic development in the region. The most important legal instrument for that discussion is undoubtedly the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea which entered into force on 16 November 1994, some twelve years after it was adopted in December 1982, and following more than nine years of negotiations, which began in 1973"--

Guide to Marine Life

Guide to Marine Life
Author: Marty Snyderman
Publisher: Aqua Quest Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1996
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781881652069

A layman's guide to identifying and understanding the marine life while scuba diving.

Early Settlers of the Insular Caribbean

Early Settlers of the Insular Caribbean
Author: Corinne L. Hofman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-05-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9789088907807

Early Settlers of the Insular Caribbean: Dearchaizing the Archaic offers a comprehensive coverage of the most recent advances in interdisciplinary research on the early human settling of the Caribbean islands. It covers the time span of the so-called Archaic Age and focuses on the Middle to Late Holocene period which - depending on specific case studies discussed in this volume - could range between 6000 BC and AD 1000. A similar approach to the early settlers of the Caribbean islands has never been published in one volume, impeding the realization of a holistic view on indigenous peoples' settling, subsistence, movements, and interactions in this vast and naturally diversified macroregion.Delivered by a panel of international experts, this book provides recent and new data in the fields of archaeology, collection studies, palaeo-botany, geomorphology, paleoclimate and bioarchaeology that challenge currently existing perspectives on early human settlement patterns, subsistence strategies, migration routes and mobility and exchange. This publication compiles new approaches to 'old' data and museum collections, presents the results of starch grain analysis, paleocoring, seascape modelling, and network analysis. Moreover, it features newer published data from the islands such as Margarita and Aruba. All the above-mentioned data compiled in one volume fills the gap in scholarly literature, transforms some of the interpretations in vogue and enables the integration of the first settlers of the insular Caribbean into the larger Pan-American perspective.This book not only provides scholars and students with compelling new and interdisciplinary perspectives on the Early Settlers of the Insular Caribbean. It is also of interest to unspecialized readers as it discusses subjects related to archaeology, anthropology, and - broadly speaking - to the intersections between humanities and social and environmental sciences, which are of great interest to the present-day general public.

Lonely Planet Caribbean Islands

Lonely Planet Caribbean Islands
Author: Lonely Planet
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Total Pages: 1600
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1787011658

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Caribbean Islands is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Travel back to the 18th century as you wander along cobbled lanes and past meticulously restored buildings at English Harbour, Antigua; hoist a jib and set sail from sailing fantasyland, Tortola, and enjoy the journey to one of the 50 or so isles making up the British Virgin Islands; or hit the atmospheric streets of Cuba's Habana Vieja and join in the living musical soundtrack of rumba, salsa, son and reggaeton; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Caribbean Islands and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's Caribbean Islands Travel Guide: Color maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - weddings, honeymoons, sustainable travel, cuisine, music, wildlife, culture, history Covers Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Jamaica, St Kitts, St Lucia, Trinidad, Turks & Caicos, US Virgin Islands, and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Caribbean Islands, our most comprehensive guide to the Caribbean Islands, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less traveled About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world’s number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we’ve printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You’ll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Children of the Sea

Children of the Sea
Author: Nicolas Popov
Publisher: Seaworthy Publications Incorporated
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2000
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Since 1985 Island Expedition’s Dragan and Nicolas Popov have pioneered environmental and oceanographic education in the Bahamas and Caribbean. They have introduced environmental and cultural awareness to an international array of youth. These young adults from different countries, cultures and ethnic backgrounds are exposed to the tropical seas and their vast marine life. Students and teachers alike leave Island Expedition with a new found respect for and understanding of the natural world around them-not just the importance of preserving for its beauty but because our survival as a species demands this. Children of the Sea highlights the activities involved on these expeditions and explores the natural wonders and beauty of the Caribbean Sea depicted in the spectacular photography displayed.