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Caribbean Inhospitality juxtaposes the Caribbean’s reputation for being hospitable to foreigners with the alienation of the Caribbean citizen-subject from nations they call home. Reading literary, cinematic, and digital texts, Natalie Lauren Belisle demonstrates that this inhospitality is institutionalized through the aesthetic, reproducing itself in the laws that condition belonging and membership in the Caribbean nation-state.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
