Caribbean inhospitality : the poetics of strangers at home /

"The Caribbean has a global reputation for extending unparalleled hospitality to foreign guests. Yet local citizens express feeling alienated from the Caribbean nations they call home. Here, Natalie Lauren Belisle probes the relationship between these incompatible narratives of Caribbean life....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Belisle, Natalie Lauren, 1976- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2025]
Series:	Critical Caribbean studies.
Subjects:	Citizenship > Caribbean Area. Political participation > Caribbean Area. Belonging (Social psychology) > Political aspects > Caribbean Area. Tourism > Political aspects > Caribbean Area. Tourism > Social aspects > Caribbean Area. State, The. Participation politique > Caraïbes (Région) Appartenance (Psychologie sociale) > Aspect politique > Caraïbes (Région) État.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : on the aesthetics of Caribbean inhospitality
Deliberative misdirection : the non-sense of Caribbean community in Annalee Davis'
Migrant discourse and Ana Lydia Vega's "Jamaica farewell"
Disoriented citizenship : misreading Puerto Rico
Freelancing personhood : living of the books in the outer spaces of Cuban writing
Altered states : bordering the inhuman in René Philoctète's Le peuple de terres mêlées and Pedro Cabiya's Malas hierbas
Coda : love beyond sovereignty.