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Making Men

Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative

By: Belinda Edmondson

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Making Men

Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative

By: Belinda Edmondson

Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the mid-century male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly looked--and relocated--to the United States. Incorporating postcolonial theory, West Indian literature, feminist theory, and African American literary criticism, Making Men carves out a particular relationship between the Caribbean canon--as represented by C. L. R. James and V. S. Naipaul, among others--and contemporary Caribbean women writers such as Jean Rhys, and Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, and Michelle Cliff, who now live in the United States. Discussing the canonical Caribbean narrative as it reflects national identity under the domination of English cultural authority, Belinda Edmondson focuses particularly on the pervasive influence of Victorian sensibilities in the structuring of twentieth-century national identity. She shows that issues of race and English constructions of masculinity not only are central to West Indian identity but also connect Caribbean authorship to the English literary tradition. This perspective on the origins of West Indian literary nationalism then informs Edmondson's search for female subjectivity in current literature by West Indian women immigrants in America. Making Men compares the intellectual exile of men with the economic migration of women, linking the canonical male tradition to the writing of modern West Indian women and exploring how the latter write within and against the historical male paradigm in the continuing process of national definition. With theoretical claims that invite new discourse on English, Caribbean, and American ideas of exile, migration, race, gender identity, and literary authority, Making Men will be informative reading for those involved with postcolonial theory, African American and women's studies, and Caribbean literature.

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Duke University Press

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0822322633

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Creole Noise

Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance

By: Belinda Edmondson

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Creole Noise

Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance

By: Belinda Edmondson

Creole Noise is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean, from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. By emphasizing multiracial origins, transnational influences, and musical performance alongside often violent historical events of the nineteenth century - slavery, Emancipation, the Morant Bay Rebellion, the era of blackface minstrelsy, indentureship and immigration - it revises the common view that literary dialect in the Caribbean was a relatively modern, twentieth-century phenomenon, associated with regional anti-colonial or black-affirming nationalist projects. It explores both the lives and the literary texts of a number of early progenitors, among these a number of pro-slavery white creoles as well as the first black author of literary dialect in the English-speaking Caribbean. Creole Noise features a number of fascinating historical characters, among these Henry Garland Murray, a black Jamaican journalist and lecturer; Michael McTurk, the white magistrate from British Guiana who, as 'Quow', authored one of the earliest books of dialect literature; as well as blackface comedian and calypsonian Sam Manning, who along with Marcus Garvey's ex-wife, Amy Ashwood Garvey, wrote a popular dialect play that traveled across the United States. In so doing it reconstructs an earlier period of dialect literature, usually isolated or dismissed from the cultural narrative as racist mimicry or merely political, not part of a continuum of artistic production in the Caribbean.

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Oxford University Press

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0192856839

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Caribbean Middlebrow

Leisure Culture and the Middle Class

By: Belinda Edmondson

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Caribbean Middlebrow

Leisure Culture and the Middle Class

By: Belinda Edmondson

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.

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Cornell University Press

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080144814X

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Caribbean Romances

The Politics of Regional Representation

By: Belinda Edmondson

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Caribbean Romances

The Politics of Regional Representation

By: Belinda Edmondson

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

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University of Virginia Press

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0813918227

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Creole Noise

Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance

By: Belinda Edmondson

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Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance

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The Price of Sex

By: Belinda Brooks-Gordon

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The Price of Sex

By: Belinda Brooks-Gordon

As a society we are buying more sex than ever before. Adult sex shops now take their place amongst retailers in the high street and lap dancing clubs compete for an increased share of the leisure economy; hotel chains offer sexually explicit films as part of their standard service, the party selling of adult toys to women in their homes has become a mainstream activity; and at the traditional end of the sexual service economy, prostitution has experienced new growth. Along with this has come new legal measures and attempts to regulate the sexual leisure economy, and far more comprehensive plans than ever before to regulate prostitution, in particular in the form of the new Sex Offences Act. This book seeks to address the range of issues and contemporary debates on the sex industry, including the demand by customers who buy sex, the policing of women who work in the street sex industry, and the violence that pervades prostitution. It shows how these issues have been addressed in policy terms, the problems that have emerged in this, and how a social policy might be formulated to minimize harm and enhance public understanding. Overall the book aims to provide a critical perspective on prostitution policies and the legal chaos and complexities that surround this.

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Routledge

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1134020589

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Employee Experience by Design

How to Create an Effective EX for Competitive Advantage

By: Emma Bridger,Belinda Gannaway

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Employee Experience by Design

How to Create an Effective EX for Competitive Advantage

By: Emma Bridger,Belinda Gannaway

In a world adapting to continuous change and disruption, delivering a great employee experience is vital. How can organizations create an experience that enables their people to thrive; an experience that unlocks productivity and creates competitive advantage? Employee Experience by Design is a practical guide for HR professionals, business leaders and anyone needing to create an employee experience that empowers people to perform at their best. By setting out simple steps that any team or organization can follow, it demystifies EX, and shows how to design an exceptional experience for employees. Drawing on positive psychology, the book demonstrates what a good workplace experience means for people. A world away from perks and benefits, the authors show how to discover what really drives an excellent EX. They then walk through a user-friendly framework covering all levels of EX, from organizational culture to people processes and everyday behaviours. Employee Experience by Design shows how to build a robust business case for employee experience and align EX activity with organizational strategy to demonstrate impact. Readers will also learn how to measure EX and demonstrate return on investment. Packed with clear and practical tips, tools, and examples from organizations including ING, Expedia Group and ADEO, this book is essential reading for anyone looking to develop a happy, productive, high-performing environment in which people can excel.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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1789667720

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Statistics Workbook for Evidence-based Health Care

By: Jennifer Peat,Belinda Barton,Elizabeth Elliott

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Statistics Workbook for Evidence-based Health Care

By: Jennifer Peat,Belinda Barton,Elizabeth Elliott

This concise, easy to understand and learner-friendly book invitesthe readers to actively particpate in the understanding of medicalstatistical concepts that are frequently used in health careresearch and evidence-based practice worldwide. Knowing that the best way to learn statistical concepts is touse them, the authors employ real examples and articles from healthscience literature, complete with the complexities that real lifepresents, in an approach that will help bring researchers andclinicians one step closer towards being statistical savvy andbetter able to critically read research literature and interpretthe results. A practical hands-on workbook for individual or groupexercises Teaches how to understand statistical methods when readingjournals, and how to use them in clinical research Emphasizes the use of statistics in evidence-basedresearch Relevant for anyone needing to use statistics, this workbook isan ideal resource for all health care professionals and students,especially those learning and practising evidence-basedmedicine.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444300504

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Caribbean Romances

The Politics of Regional Representation

By: Belinda Edmondson

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Caribbean Romances

The Politics of Regional Representation

By: Belinda Edmondson

This interdisciplinary volume on postcolonial Caribbean culture brings together ten essays by exciting young scholars who challenge some of the established assumptions of postcolonial studies. The contributors look at ways in which the "romance" trope is employed within contemporary Caribbean popular culture and literature to idealize the newly independent, postcolonial societies of the region. The essays situate this discourse of idealization in its historical and cultural contexts and reveal how it is a reinvention of the old romance initially constructed in the imperial imagination of Europe and America.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813918219

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Making Men

Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative

By: Belinda Edmondson

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Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative

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Book's by Belinda Edmondson

Making Men

Making Men

Creole Noise

Creole Noise

Caribbean Middlebrow

Caribbean Middlebrow

Caribbean Romances

Caribbean Romances

Creole Noise

Creole Noise

The Price of Sex

The Price of Sex

Employee Experience by Design

Employee Experience by Design

Statistics Workbook for Evidence-based Health Care

Statistics Workbook for Evidence-based Health Care

Caribbean Romances

Caribbean Romances

Making Men

Making Men

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