Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context [Paperback]

Focusing on piracy in the seventeenth century, filibustering in the nineteenth century, intracolonial migrations in the 1930s, metropolitan racializations in the 1950s and 1960s, and feminist redefinitions of creolization and sexile from the 1940s to the 1990s, this book redefines the Caribbean beyond the postcolonial debate.Introduction: Coloniality of Diasporas in the Caribbean PART I: COLONIAL ARCHIPELAGIC DISLOCATIONS 1. La gran colonia: Piracy and Coloniality of Diasporas in the Spanish and French Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century 2. Archipi?lagos de ultramar: filibusterismo and extended colonialism in the Caribbean and the Philippines PART II: CARIBBEAN COLONIALITIES 3. Impossible Homecomings: Aim? C?saire and Luis Mu?oz Mar?n 4. N?gropolitains and Nuyor?cans: Metropolitan Racialization in Frantz Fanon and Piri Thomas PART III: EXTENDED POSTCOLONIALITIES 5. Other Confederations: Creolization and Beyond 6. Sexiles: (Post) Colonialism and the Machine of Desire

This is a bold and imaginative rupturing of current colonial metanarratives of nation, race, and sexual identities. By reading history, fiction, and colonial mentalities against the grain, with a skillful navigation of disciplinary, geographical, and linguistic boundaries, Yolanda Mart?nez-San Miguel conjures up a far more variegated understanding of Caribbean ontology. - Patricia Mohammed, Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and author of Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation

Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel's Coloniality of Diasporas is a groundbreaking study of the legacies of colonialism and of the ways in which migration produces Caribbean diasporas that challenge traditional representations of ethnic and cultural identities. Her focus on collective identities in the Caribbean archipelago includes the linguistic background of the cr?olit? and creolization debates, and redefines Caribbean identity beyond national olóŸ