Caribbean: art at the crossroads of the world

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The Antilles: Fragments Of Epic Memory (1993) / Derek Walcott -- Crossroads, Crossings, And The Cross / Elvis Fuentes -- Lands Of The Atlantic / Maryse Conde -- Sweet Destiny: Anglo-American Traveler-Artists In The Caribbean, 1714-1898 / Katherine Manthorne -- The Caribbean In The Hour Of Haiti / Gerald Alexis -- Maroons In Suriname And French Guiana / Sally Price -- Invisible Caribbean: A View From Central America (2008) / Virginia Perez-Ratton -- On The Founders Of Art In The Caribbean / Alvaro Medina -- Curacao: Hub In The Caribbean / Jennifer Smit -- Jamaican Art And The Changing National Imaginary: From The Affirmative To The Critical / Veerle Poupeye -- Introducing Fifteen Intuitives (1987) / David Boxer -- Surrealism In The Caribbean: The Art And Politics Of Liberation At The Crossroads Of The World / Lowery Stokes Sims -- Out Of The Shadows: The Harlem Renaissance And New York's Afro-Caribbean Diaspora / Deborah Cullen -- Notes On Asian Invisibility In The Caribbean / Herb Hoi Chun Tam -- A Dark Animal Dressed In Sequins / Sergio Ramrez Mercado -- On Masking And Performance Art In The Postcolonial Caribbean / Krista Thompson -- The Body In Caribbean Art / Rocio Aranda-Alvarado -- Visual Caribbean: Images And Imaginaries / Yolanda Wood Pujols -- Displaying The Caribbean: Thirty Years Of Exhibitions And Collecting In The United States / Edward J. Sullivan -- Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays (1991) / Edouard Glissant -- SELECTED EXCERPTS -- A Fruitful and Pleasant Work of the Best State of a Public Weal, and of the New Isle Called Utopia (1516) / Sir Thomas More -- A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552) / Bartolome de las Casas -- Le Code Noir (1687) / King Louis XIV -- Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1790) / John Gabriel Stedman -- Sab (1841) / Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda y Arteaga -- The Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico and the Radical and Monarchical Goverment of Spain (1872) / Ramon Emeterio Betances -- Words in the Tropics (1932) and Elegy for Jesus Menendez (1951) / Nicolas Guillen -- The Black Jacobins (1938) / C. L. R. James -- Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar (1940) / Fernando Ortiz -- Mamita Yunai (1941) / Carlos Luis Fallas -- The Great Camouflage (1945) / Suzanne Cesaire -- Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (1939/1947) / Aime Cesaire -- The Kingdom of this World (1949) / Alejo Carpentier -- The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited (1962) / V. S. Naipaul -- Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) / Jean Rhys -- The AirBus (1984) / Luis Rafael Sanchez -- Rastafari: Roots and Ideology (1994) / Barry Chevannes -- The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective (1992) / Antonio Benitez Rojo -- Light at the Edge of the World (2001) / Wade Davis -- Brother, I'm Dying (2007) / Edwidge Danticat.