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People Get Ready

African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange
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Throughout this book, Kevin Meehan offers historical and theoretical readings of Caribbean and African American interaction from the 1700s to the present. By analyzing travel narratives, histories, creative collaborations, and political exchanges, he traces the development of African American/Caribbean dialogue through the lives and works of four key individuals: historian Arthur Schomburg, writer/archivist Zora Neale Hurston, poet Jayne Cortez, and politican Jean-Bertrand Aristide. People Get Ready examines how these influential figures have reevaluated popular culture, revised the relationship between intellectuals and everyday people, and transformed practices ranging from librarianship and anthropology to poetry and broadcast journalism. This discourse, Meehan notes, is not free of contradictions, and misunderstandings arise on both sides. In addition to noting dialogues of unity, People Get Ready focuses on instances of intellectual elitism, sexim, color, prejudice, imperialism, national, chauvinism, and other forms of mutual disdain that continue to limit African American and Caribbean solidarity.

Author Biography:

Kevin Meehan is associate professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He has published in African American Review, American Literature, Callaloo, and elsewhere.
Release date Australia
September 30th, 2009
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Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
256
Dimensions
152x229x17
ISBN-13
9781604732818
Product ID
3221556

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