Author: Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2957516837
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Author: Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2957516837
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The St. Lucia Island Club
Author: Brent MonahanPublisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1681620448
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
When retired Southern sheriff-turned-New York City detective John Le Brun and his wife, Lordis, set sail in 1910 for a long-awaited honeymoon on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, they expect to find relaxation in paradise. However, they soon discover they’ve been lured to the island in part to tout its attributes as a burgeoning vacation retreat to wealthy investors back home. Instead of finding tranquility among the tropical isle’s quaint villages and sandy beaches, they encounter a land teeming with racial, social, and economic tension. The brutal murders of a local plantation owner’s family find John putting his renowned detective skills to use, with Lordis readily playing assistant. Once again, the shrewd detective must capitalize on his “outsider” status to stay several steps ahead of the locals, many of whom seem to harbor dark motives. Is the culprit one of the white landowners the exclusive St. Lucia Island Club counts among its membership; the descendants of former African slaves said to inhabit the island’s inland jungles; or someone else entirely? As the body count rises, John and Lordis race to uncover St. Lucia’s deepest mysteries, including secret identities, long-held rivalries, and who stands to profit most from the island’s future. The St. Lucia Island Club paints a vivid portrait of the Caribbean island’s scenic beauty and complicated history at the turn of the twentieth century.
A Taste of Haiti
Author: Mirta Yurnet-ThomasPublisher: Hippocrene Books
ISBN: 9780781809986
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
With African, French, Arabic and Amerindian influences, the food and culture of Haiti are fascinating subjects to explore. From the days of slavery to present times, traditional Haitian cuisine has relied upon staples like root vegetables, pork, fish, and flavour enhancers like Pikliz (picklese, or hot pepper vinegar) and Zepis (ground spices). This cookbook offers over 100 Haitian recipes, including traditional holiday foods and the author's favourite drinks and desserts. Information on Haiti's history, holidays and celebrations, necessary food staples, and cooking methods will guide the home chef on a culinary adventure to this beautiful island. Recipe titles are given in English, Creole, and French.
Taking Haiti
Author: Mary A. RendaPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807862185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
The U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years--and fed an American fascination with Haiti that flourished even longer. Exploring the cultural dimensions of U.S. contact with Haiti during the occupation and its aftermath, Mary Renda shows that what Americans thought and wrote about Haiti during those years contributed in crucial and unexpected ways to an emerging culture of U.S. imperialism. At the heart of this emerging culture, Renda argues, was American paternalism, which saw Haitians as wards of the United States. She explores the ways in which diverse Americans--including activists, intellectuals, artists, missionaries, marines, and politicians--responded to paternalist constructs, shaping new versions of American culture along the way. Her analysis draws on a rich record of U.S. discourses on Haiti, including the writings of policymakers; the diaries, letters, songs, and memoirs of marines stationed in Haiti; and literary works by such writers as Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston. Pathbreaking and provocative, Taking Haiti illuminates the complex interplay between culture and acts of violence in the making of the American empire.
Creolization and Language Change
Author: Dany AdonePublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3111339807
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.
Saint Lucia
Author: Tamra OrrPublisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761425694
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
"Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of the St. Lucia"--Provided by publisher.
Neg Maron
Author: Michael AubertinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781878433312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
"Neg Maron: Freedom Fighter is a captivating piece of Caribbean literature set on the enchanting island of St. Lucia, West Indies. As the title suggests, Neg Maron: Freedom Fighter explores, among other things, the physical and psychological struggle fro emancipation."-- Foreword (p. ix).
The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories
Author: H. Adlai MurdochPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978815743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories is an essay collection made up of two sections; in the first, a group of anglophone and francophone scholars examines the roots, effects and implications of the major social upheaval that shook Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Réunion in February and March of 2009. They clearly demonstrate the critical role played by community activism, art and media to combat politico-economic policies that generate (un)employment, labor exploitation, and unattended health risks, all made secondary to the supremacy of profit. In the second section, additional scholars provide in-depth analyses of the ways in which an insistence on capital accumulation and centralization instantiated broad hierarchies of market-driven profit, capital accumulation, and economic exploitation upon a range of populations and territories in the wider non-sovereign and nominally sovereign Caribbean from Haiti to the Dutch Antilles to Puerto Rico, reinforcing the racialized patterns of socioeconomic exclusion and privatization long imposed by France on its former colonial territories.
Window Into The Eyes Of A Lone Black Nation
Author: Jean-Max AndrePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 143573873X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Window Into The Eyes of a Lone Black Nation is Jean-Max's argument that the Haiti we know today is a casualty of the Emancipation Era. The architects of the St. Domingue revolution knew the now former slaves were not ready for complete autonomy in 1801; so they did not seek it at the time! But unfortunately, somehow history and egos got in the way; and the rest is nothing more than a martyr of Black Nationalism.
Saint Lucian Literature and Theatre
Author: John Robert LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description