Caribbean Inhospitality

The Poetics of Strangers at Home

Natalie Lauren Belisle (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

196 Seiten

2025
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3830-7 (ISBN)

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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. Departing from tourist-centered critiques of the Caribbean’s visitor economy, Belisle instead gives primacy to the political life of the Caribbean citizen-subject within a broader hospitality regime. Reading literary, cinematic, and digital texts that traverse the Spanish, Anglophone, and Francophone Caribbean, Belisle interprets citizens’ estrangement through misdirected political deliberation and demonstrates that inhospitality is institutionalized through the aesthetic, reproducing itself in the laws that condition belonging and membership in the nation-state. Ultimately, Caribbean Inhospitality recasts the decay of nation/state sovereignty in the postcolonial Caribbean within the contours of neoliberalism, international relations, and cosmopolitanism.

NATALIE LAUREN BELISLE is an assistant professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. This is her first book.

Introduction: On the Aesthetics of Caribbean Inhospitality
1          Deliberative Misdirection: The Non-Sense of Caribbean Community in Annalee Davis’ Migrant Discourse and Ana Lydia Vega’s “Jamaica Farewell”
2          Disoriented Citizenship: Misreading Puerto Rico
3          Freelancing Personhood: Living of the Books in the Outer Spaces of Cuban Writing
4          Altered States: Bordering the Inhuman in RenÉ PhiloctÈte’s Le peuple de terres mÊlÉes and Pedro Cabiya’s Malas hierbas
Coda: Love beyond Sovereignty
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Introduction: In the World, Not of It: On the Aesthetic of Caribbean Inhospitality 1
1 Deliberative Misdirection: The Non-Sense of Caribbean Community in Annalee Davis’s Migrant and Ana Lydia Vega’s “Jamaica Farewell” 23
2 Disoriented Citizenship: Misreading Puerto Rico in the Uncosmopolitan Elsewhere 51
3 Freelance Personhood: Living Off the Books in the Outer Spaces of Cuban Writing 79
4 Altered States: Bordering the Inhuman in RenÉ PhiloctÈte’s Le Peuple des terres mÊlÉes and Pedro Cabiya’s Malas hierbas 112
Coda: Loving Beyond (Sovereignty) 143
Acknowledgments 147
Notes 151
Index 000

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2025
Reihe/Serie	Critical Caribbean Studies
Zusatzinfo	1 color image
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-9788-3830-1 / 1978838301
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-3830-7 / 9781978838307
Zustand	Neuware