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Title: Nutrient thresholds for bottom-up control of macroalgal blooms on coral reefs in Jamaica and southeast Florida.
Creator: Lapointe, Brian E.
Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3343825
Subject Headings: Coral reefs and islands--Caribbean Area, Algal blooms, Algae--Control
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Sea stars, sea urchins, and allies: echinoderms of Florida and the Caribbean.
Creator: Hendler, Gordon, Miller, John E., Pawson, David L., Kier, Porter M., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1995
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007334
Subject Headings: Echinodermata--Florida--Identification, Echinodermata--Caribbean Area--Identification, Echinodermata, Starfishes, Sea urchins
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Grouper culture for the Caribbean: Progress report.
Creator: Tucker, John W., Jr., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1992
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3340768
Subject Headings: Nassau grouper, Fish culture, Epinephelus striatus, Chorionic gonadotropins, Fishes--Caribbean Area
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A 13C/12C comparison of food webs in Caribbean seagrass meadows and coral reefs.
Creator: Fry, B., Lutes, R., Northam, M., Parker, P. L., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1982
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3331838
Subject Headings: Carbon--Isotopes--Analysis, Seagrasses, Coral reefs and islands--Caribbean Area, Food webs
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: La identidad fronteriza a travâes de las experiencias generacionales en Sirena Selena vestida de pena.
Creator: Magdaleno, Ariana Heydi., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: Afro-Puerto Rican Mayra Santos-Febres's novel Sirena Selena vestida de pena (2000) demonstrates the intrinsic social relationship that exists between generations in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic. The historical similarity between these regions permits a comparison in life stories of marginalized peoples. Puerto Rican godmothers and transvestites Martha Divine and Valentina Frenesâi prepare goddaughter, quinceänera and bolerista Sirena Selena in her performance in order to launch a career...
Show moreAfro-Puerto Rican Mayra Santos-Febres's novel Sirena Selena vestida de pena (2000) demonstrates the intrinsic social relationship that exists between generations in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic. The historical similarity between these regions permits a comparison in life stories of marginalized peoples. Puerto Rican godmothers and transvestites Martha Divine and Valentina Frenesâi prepare goddaughter, quinceänera and bolerista Sirena Selena in her performance in order to launch a career and conquer the strategies of survival. Meanwhile, Dominican millionaire Hugo Graubel manages his life publicly as a heterosexual husband and privately as a gay man and strongly attempts to capture enigmatic Sirena Selena. Whereas the Dominican, pre-adolescent, poor, and mulatto Leocadio discovers the veiled world of tourism that offers alternate possibilities of economic survival. The previous generations' transgression of society's binary definitions created alternate spaces that continue to pave the way for future generations that will refuse and resist conforming to static patriarchal and heterosexual mainstream classifications.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/369190
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Identity in literature, Sex role in literature, Literature and society, Homosexuality and literature
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Title: "Wide Sargasso Sea": The Sargasso Sea as metaphor.
Creator: Kirkman, Kristi M., Florida Atlantic University, Lewis, Krishnakali
Abstract/Description: Physical attributes of the Sargasso Sea are integral to tropes of the imaginative recovery of a Caribbean history, which is the project of Jean Rhys's novel, Wide Sargasso Sea. Like the ever-changing sea, history changes, as well; this analogy, articulated by Derek Walcott's line, "History is Sea," draws attention to bow, like the ever-changing sea, Rhys's novel not only changes literary history, but illustrates how history itself changes constantly. Other physical attributes of the sea,...
Show morePhysical attributes of the Sargasso Sea are integral to tropes of the imaginative recovery of a Caribbean history, which is the project of Jean Rhys's novel, Wide Sargasso Sea. Like the ever-changing sea, history changes, as well; this analogy, articulated by Derek Walcott's line, "History is Sea," draws attention to bow, like the ever-changing sea, Rhys's novel not only changes literary history, but illustrates how history itself changes constantly. Other physical attributes of the sea, including circular currents, temperature, survival tactics of the sea's inhabitants, and sargassum fragmentation, subtly highlight Wide Sargasso Sea's distinctly Caribbean elements. Rhys's title, Wide Sargasso Sea, appropriately emphasizes the Sargasso Sea, which serves as metaphor for the novel's revisionary work.
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Date Issued: 2000
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15765
Subject Headings: Rhys, Jean--Wide Sargasso Sea, Sea in literature, Caribbean Area--In literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Isolation, Analysis and Origin of Bioactive Diterpenes in Pseudopterogorgia acerosa.
Creator: Kate, Abhijeet S., Florida Atlantic University, Kerr, Russell G., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Abstract/Description: Nature has served human kind m many ways, one of which is a source of medicines. Natural products from marine sources represent a relatively new area of research and have shown tremendous potential as a source of new chemical entities in drug discovery. Caribbean gorgomans corals of the genus Pseudopterogorgia have been shown to produce a variety of chemically interesting and biologically significant secondary metabolites. ln this dissertation, the Caribbean coral Pseudopterogorgia acerosa...
Show moreNature has served human kind m many ways, one of which is a source of medicines. Natural products from marine sources represent a relatively new area of research and have shown tremendous potential as a source of new chemical entities in drug discovery. Caribbean gorgomans corals of the genus Pseudopterogorgia have been shown to produce a variety of chemically interesting and biologically significant secondary metabolites. ln this dissertation, the Caribbean coral Pseudopterogorgia acerosa has been investigated for the presence of novel diterpenes and these compounds were found to belong to three different classes: pseudopteranoids, bis-pseudopteranoids and lipidyl pseudopteranes. Nine of these were new compounds. The structural elucidation of these compounds was performed using spectroscopic means such as l D and 20 NMR, and mass spectroscopy. There is growing evidence that secondary metabolites isolated from manne invertebrates may actually be produced by a bacterial symbiont. The research studies in our laboratory regarding the source of diterpenes in the selected gorgonian corals suggested a bacterial origin. The hypothesis that coral associated bacteria are the source of diterpenes in the coral P. acerosa, was evaluated using the series of experiments and evidence supported this biosynthetic origin. A study comparing the "gall" tissue and healthy coral tissue in terms of diterpene content and culturable bacterial communities showed that different groups of diterpenes were concentrated in different coral tissue types. It was also observed that the bacterial populations associated with the "gall" and healthy tissues were considerably different. Furthermore, observed specificity in antimicrobial activity of certain groups of compounds against bacteria isolated from the same coral suggested the ecological role of these compounds. This work with "gall" tissue supports the hypothesis that diseased coral tissue represents an excellent source of bioactive natural products for drug discovery. Additionaly, a simple LC-MS method was developed for the analysis of anticancer drug carmustine in plasma.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000864
Subject Headings: Marine pharmacology, Coral reef ecology--Caribbean Area, Natural products--Synthesis
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Effect of a spiritually-guided intervention on breast self-care attitudes in afro-Caribbean women.
Creator: Marshall, Jacqueline S., Gordon, Shirley C., Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description: Little is known about breast health behaviors in Afro-Caribbean women (ACW) residing in the United States, as they are often included in the collective group of African American women (AAW). The objective of this study was to determine the influence of a spiritually-guided intervention on breast health self-care (BHSC) attitudes in ACW residing in southeastern Florida using a concurrent triangulation mixed methods design. One hundred and seventeen women were recruited from three local south...
Show moreLittle is known about breast health behaviors in Afro-Caribbean women (ACW) residing in the United States, as they are often included in the collective group of African American women (AAW). The objective of this study was to determine the influence of a spiritually-guided intervention on breast health self-care (BHSC) attitudes in ACW residing in southeastern Florida using a concurrent triangulation mixed methods design. One hundred and seventeen women were recruited from three local south Florida Caribbean churches. Inclusion criteria included: (a) self-identification as Afro-Caribbean, (b) female aged 30 years or older, (c) living in the United States for at least 1 year, (d) able to provide informed consent, (e) able to speak and read English at the 8th grade level, and (f) no previous history of breast cancer.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004388, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004388
Subject Headings: Breast -- Cancer -- Prevention, Health attitudes, Health behavior, Medical care -- Religious aspects, Self care, Health, Self examination, Medical -- Afro Caribbean women -- Attitudes, Spirituality, Women, Black -- Caribbean Area -- Attitudes
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Interview with Toni Mountain – ca. 2008.
Creator: Mountain, Toni (Interviewee), Carter, Issac M. (Interviewer)
Date Issued: 2008-02-13
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT77824
Subject Headings: Caribbean Area -- Emigration and immigration, Miami (Fla.) -- Social conditions, Riots -- Florida -- Miami, Miami (Fla.) -- Ethnic relations, Miami (Fla.) -- Race relations, Oral histories --Florida., Oral history
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Title: ORIGIN OF THE ST. JOHNS ARCHAIC (FLORIDA).
Creator: ANDERSON, NAIN E., Florida Atlantic University, Sears, William H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: In the St. Johns River area of Florida, the preceramic period has been found to have certain different artifact types than the neighboring Archaic traditions. These different artifact types-- shell gouges and celts--have their closest similarities with types from the preceramic of Venezuela and Cuba. It was postulated that the influence for the similar shell tools was derived from the original settlement of the Caribbean area by migrating groups from the northern South American coast. It was...
Show moreIn the St. Johns River area of Florida, the preceramic period has been found to have certain different artifact types than the neighboring Archaic traditions. These different artifact types-- shell gouges and celts--have their closest similarities with types from the preceramic of Venezuela and Cuba. It was postulated that the influence for the similar shell tools was derived from the original settlement of the Caribbean area by migrating groups from the northern South American coast. It was further postulated that the original inhabitants of the St. Johns area were part of the migrating groups and that they arrived in the area probably by way of the Everglades. Evidence from the Caribbean area preceramic periods was examined for proof of this migration. Finally, a possible linguistic relationship with the historic Indians of the St. Johns area and the Warao of Venezuela Has discussed.
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Date Issued: 1974
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13642
Subject Headings: Indians of North America--Florida--Saint Johns River Valley--Antiquities, Indians of the West Indies--Antiquities, Florida--Antiquities, Caribbean Area--Antiquities
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Title: An exploratory study of victim participation in the justice systems of Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad/Tobago.
Creator: Eastep, Mary Ann., Florida Atlantic University, Leip, Leslie A.
Abstract/Description: This study examines the nature and extent of victim participation in the criminal justice systems in the three Caribbean nations of Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. Through visits to the three island nations, observations were made; interviews were conducted with justice practitioners, including police officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys and victim advocates; conversations were held with citizens and several crime victims; observations of court proceedings were conducted; and...
Show moreThis study examines the nature and extent of victim participation in the criminal justice systems in the three Caribbean nations of Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. Through visits to the three island nations, observations were made; interviews were conducted with justice practitioners, including police officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys and victim advocates; conversations were held with citizens and several crime victims; observations of court proceedings were conducted; and documents were studied. Victim participation was considered in the context of the culture and within the theoretical framework of institutionalism and organized anarchies. Institutions were seen as both constraining forces with respect to victim participation and emerging entities as regards victim participation. Justice practitioners' perceptions of participation often matched and often varied from actual systems of participation that exist. In addition, there were instances wherein practitioners who had considerable contact with victims (police officers, prosecutors) had very little knowledge about victims' rights and/or the status of victim policy. Victims of crime in Jamaica have more services available to them than do victims in the other two nations, as there is a government network of victim service agencies in place there. Participation in the actual trial process is similar in each of the nations studied.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12034
Subject Headings: Criminal justice, Administration of--Barbados, Criminal justice, Administration of--Jamaica, Criminal justice, Administration of--Trinidad and Tobago, Victims of crimes--Caribbean Area
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: An ecocritical and metaphorical analysis of "Cereus Blooms at Night".
Creator: Kaleel, Rhonda A., Florida Atlantic University, Furman, Andrew
Abstract/Description: Nature is an important symbol in Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo. The metaphorical comparisons are interlaced within the colonial usurpation which fuels the novel into becoming an ecocritical statement, because without the health of the environment, both human and non-human species alike decay and die because of colonial encroachment. Shani Mootoo illustrates the ecological clash between the wetlands and the tropics through an intricate narrative involving people who are dominated by...
Show moreNature is an important symbol in Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo. The metaphorical comparisons are interlaced within the colonial usurpation which fuels the novel into becoming an ecocritical statement, because without the health of the environment, both human and non-human species alike decay and die because of colonial encroachment. Shani Mootoo illustrates the ecological clash between the wetlands and the tropics through an intricate narrative involving people who are dominated by their environments and cultures, or lack thereof, which create great chasms to overcome. Through critical nature symbols such as the town of Paradise versus the wetlands, the cereus plant, the bugs, the birds, and the cat, important ecocritical connections can be made as to the survival of the characters and the island.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13205
Subject Headings: Mootoo, Shani,--1957---Cereus blooms at night, Nature in literature, Philosophy of nature in literature, Ecocriticism, Ecology in literature, Literature and science--Caribbean Area
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Title: There's A New Sheriff in Town: Caribbean Rewriting of the American Western in Perry Henzell and Michael Thelwell's The Harder They Come and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow.
Creator: Wilson, Paula J., Machado, Elena, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this investigation is to analyze the ways in which the American Western genre has been reworked in an Anglophone Caribbean context. This paper focuses on the role of the cowboy figure as it pertains to both a postcolonial Jamaican context a more globalized, diasporic Anglophone Caribbean setting. The Western genre, while not typically associated with the Caribbean, has tropes that certainly occur in both film and literature. There is not much scholarship that details the...
Show moreThe purpose of this investigation is to analyze the ways in which the American Western genre has been reworked in an Anglophone Caribbean context. This paper focuses on the role of the cowboy figure as it pertains to both a postcolonial Jamaican context a more globalized, diasporic Anglophone Caribbean setting. The Western genre, while not typically associated with the Caribbean, has tropes that certainly occur in both film and literature. There is not much scholarship that details the importance of this reimagination as a positive association in the region, and I have chosen both the film and novel The Harder They Come by Perry Henzell and Michael Thelwell, respectively, and Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall to trace these ideas. Together, these works provide a multifaceted understanding of how the American Western helps to interpret the Anglophone Caribbean as a participant in an increasingly globalized world.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004557, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004557
Subject Headings: Caribbean Area -- Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Caribbean Area -- In literature, Henzell, Perry -- Harder they come -- Criticism and interpretation, Jamaica -- Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Marshall, Paule -- Praisesong for the widow -- Criticism and interpretation, Thelwell, Michael -- Harder they come -- Criticism and interpretation, Western films -- United States -- History and criticism
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Title: A gift from mistress to slave with an Empire's tag: Language of the law in the post-colonial matrices of Derek Walcott's "Omeros".
Creator: Kramer, Jennifer J., Florida Atlantic University, Sheehan, Thomas
Abstract/Description: The text focuses on the language of the law in Omeros , which is defined as "the representation and expression of social order, principles, morality, conscience, and conduct of a community or nation." The language of the law is inherent in the dynamics of the Caribbean's hybrid, cultural community and is revealed through Walcott's characters. Walcott attempts to resolve how the colonial cultural system has maintained cultural and socio-economic authority in a politically independent West...
Show moreThe text focuses on the language of the law in Omeros , which is defined as "the representation and expression of social order, principles, morality, conscience, and conduct of a community or nation." The language of the law is inherent in the dynamics of the Caribbean's hybrid, cultural community and is revealed through Walcott's characters. Walcott attempts to resolve how the colonial cultural system has maintained cultural and socio-economic authority in a politically independent West Indies. Walcott's characters view the language of the law and each other according to their cultural matrices. Helen is Walcott's key. Helen is the West Indian people, her yellow dress the language of the law, and the Empire's tag is the colonial cultural system. How Helen, in her yellow dress, is perceived by each character gives insight into that character's cultural system. The sum of these cultural matrices is Helen and defines "Caribbeanness."
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Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13145
Subject Headings: Walcott, Derek.--Omeros., West Indian poetry, English.--Criticism and interpretation., Postcolonialism--Commonwealth countries., West Indies--Languages., Politics and literature--Caribbean Area--History--20th century.
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Title: The North American Free Trade Agreement as a two-level game and implications for the free trade area of the Americas.
Creator: Neubauer, Nicole E., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this paper is to break through the complexity of the NAFTA negotiations in order to reveal some of the contentious issues from three stages of the NAFTA bargaining process: the fast track agreement, the negotiations under President Bush, Sr., and the side payments under President Clinton. Putnam's two-level game theory will help describe how the interests of business, environmental groups, and labor unions influenced the outcome of the NAFTA through their respective win-sets,...
Show moreThe purpose of this paper is to break through the complexity of the NAFTA negotiations in order to reveal some of the contentious issues from three stages of the NAFTA bargaining process: the fast track agreement, the negotiations under President Bush, Sr., and the side payments under President Clinton. Putnam's two-level game theory will help describe how the interests of business, environmental groups, and labor unions influenced the outcome of the NAFTA through their respective win-sets, domestic and international power relations, and side agreements. Extrapolating from Putnam's model and the success in NAFTA bargaining, we can predict that the ongoing Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations are more likely to succeed if international representatives strategize to create favorable conditions for domestic ratification through understanding the domestic constituencies and win-sets of the players.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/15869
Subject Headings: Free trade, Free trade, Economic development, Social aspects, Foreign economic relations
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Title: James Joyce and Derek Walcott: colonial island voices.
Creator: Terneus, Sebastian., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: When analyzing literatures that expose the effects of colonialism one can identify similarities between the lives of the oppressed. Although colonization occurs in different times and locations the consequences upon the subjugated become comparable throughout history. One prominent pairing of mirrored colonial episodes can be identified in the literature of Irish author James Joyce and St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott. Both authors endured British colonialism and produced literatures which...
Show moreWhen analyzing literatures that expose the effects of colonialism one can identify similarities between the lives of the oppressed. Although colonization occurs in different times and locations the consequences upon the subjugated become comparable throughout history. One prominent pairing of mirrored colonial episodes can be identified in the literature of Irish author James Joyce and St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott. Both authors endured British colonialism and produced literatures which revealed similar themes and narratives. Yet simply because both authors lived through colonization does not equate their experiences as parallel. This thesis argues that Joyce and Walcott created comparable literatures because they experienced subjugation on islands. A comparison of Joyce's Ulysses (1922) and Walcott's Omeros (1990) reveals the similar colonial experiences which were produced by island landscapes. Overall, this thesis will argue that the colonial turmoil which Joyce highlighted in Ulysses becomes mirrored in the postcolonial plot of Omeros.
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Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3322514
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Imperialism in literature, English literature, Irish authors, Criticism and interpretation, Colonies in literature, Colonies
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Title: Rewriting history in Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World and Michelle Cliff's Abeng.
Creator: Amiel, Tricia., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Traditional Caribbean history has been directed by and focused upon the conquerors who came to the region to colonize and seek profitable resources. Native Caribbean peoples and African slaves used to work the land have been silenced by traditional history so that it has become necessary for modern Caribbean thinkers to challenge that history and recreate it. Alejo Carpentier and Michelle Cliff challenge traditional Caribbean history in their texts, The Kingdom of This World and Abeng,...
Show moreTraditional Caribbean history has been directed by and focused upon the conquerors who came to the region to colonize and seek profitable resources. Native Caribbean peoples and African slaves used to work the land have been silenced by traditional history so that it has become necessary for modern Caribbean thinkers to challenge that history and recreate it. Alejo Carpentier and Michelle Cliff challenge traditional Caribbean history in their texts, The Kingdom of This World and Abeng, respectively. Each of these texts rewrites traditional history to include the perspectives of natives and the slaves of Haiti and Jamaica. Traditional history is challenged by the inclusion of these perspectives, thus providing a rewritten, revised history.
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3342034
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Slavery, Historiography, Slavery, Historiography, Slavery, Historiography, History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A literary history of sugarcane discourse in the works of James Grainger and Junot Dâiaz.
Creator: Linder, Michael., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This study examines the recurrence of the image of sugarcane in Caribbean literature and traces a timeline of oppressive discourse. The image of the cane field represents a tension between silencing voice and identity independent of European nation-building ideologies. There is a history of silencing associated with sugarcane, even as Caribbean authors seek a potential to use this history to create a voice. While the authors examined employ the image of the cane field to create a voice...
Show moreThis study examines the recurrence of the image of sugarcane in Caribbean literature and traces a timeline of oppressive discourse. The image of the cane field represents a tension between silencing voice and identity independent of European nation-building ideologies. There is a history of silencing associated with sugarcane, even as Caribbean authors seek a potential to use this history to create a voice. While the authors examined employ the image of the cane field to create a voice outside of the dominant discourse, the voice of the Caribbean is nonetheless restricted. Postcolonial theory will be used to examine the history of oppression through the image of sugarcane as a negative past that authors try to get beyond, while dealing with the issue that it also helped to form their voice. My thesis investigates these issues using The Sugar-Cane: A Poem. In Four Books. With Notes, a poem by James Grainger, to set up the colonial history of sugar in the Caribbean and Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao as a reaction to that colonial discourse.
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3342201
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Symbolism in literature, Sugar in literature, Imperialism in literature, Caribbean literature (English), Criticism and interpretation, In literature
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Title: Reassessing Consensus: Alejandro O’Reilly’s 1765 Visita and Puerto Rican History.
Creator: Mallen, Sean Thomas, Cruz-Taura, Graciella, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description: King Charles III of Spain implemented a series of Enlightenment reforms throughout his domain following the 1763 defeat of the Seven Years War Among the royal officials sent to enact these reforms in the Caribbean, the Crown dispatched Field Marshal Alejandro O’Reilly to the colony of Puerto Rico Historians have attributed to his 1765 inspection, or visita, and subsequent report, or memoria, the foundations for a turning point in the island’s history Despite the historical consensus that has...
Show moreKing Charles III of Spain implemented a series of Enlightenment reforms throughout his domain following the 1763 defeat of the Seven Years War Among the royal officials sent to enact these reforms in the Caribbean, the Crown dispatched Field Marshal Alejandro O’Reilly to the colony of Puerto Rico Historians have attributed to his 1765 inspection, or visita, and subsequent report, or memoria, the foundations for a turning point in the island’s history Despite the historical consensus that has lauded O’Reilly’s recommendations, this inspector-general does not merit the credit that historians consistently have given him Agrarian and economic patterns such as population growth, smuggling, and the hato economy persisted decades after his visita into the nineteenth century Other events helped drive immigration and investment into Puerto Rico more than O’Reilly’s memoria Ultimately, O’Reilly did not trigger enduring change in the colony’s history, and Puerto Rican historiography awaits the corresponding revision
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Date Issued: 2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004794
Subject Headings: O'Reilly, Alejandro,--1722-1794--Relación circunstanciada del actual estado de la población, frutos y proporciones para fomento que tiene la Isla de San Juan de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico--History--18th century, Caribbean Area--History--18th century, Puerto Rico--Foreign relations--Great Britain--History--18th century, Puerto Rico--Social conditions--History--18th century, Puerto Rico--Economic conditions--History--18th century
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