Tropic Tendencies
Title | Tropic Tendencies PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Adonis Browne |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | 234 |
Release | 2013-10-11 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 082297911X |
A legacy of slavery, abolition, colonialism, and class struggle has profoundly impacted the people and culture of the Caribbean. In Tropic Tendencies, Kevin Adonis Browne examines the development of an Anglophone Caribbean rhetorical tradition in response to the struggle to make meaning, maintain identity, negotiate across differences, and thrive in light of historical constraints and the need to participate in contemporary global culture. Browne bases his study on the concept of the "Caribbean carnivalesque" as the formative ethos driving cultural and rhetorical production in the region and beyond it. He finds that carnivalesque discourse operates as a "continuum of discursive substantiation" that increases the probability of achieving desired outcomes for both the rhetor and the audience. Browne also views the symbolic and material interplay of the masque and its widespread use to amplify efforts of resistance, assertion, and liberation. Browne analyzes rhetorical modes and strategies in a variety of forms, including music, dance, folklore, performance, sermons, fiction, poetry, photography, and digital media. He introduces chantwells, calypsonians, old talkers, jamettes, stickfighters, badjohns, and others as exemplary purveyors of Caribbean rhetoric and deconstructs their rhetorical displays. From novels by Earl Lovelace, he also extracts thematic references to kalinda, limbo, and dragon dances that demonstrate the author's claim of an active vernacular sensibility. He then investigates the re-creation and reinvention of the carnivalesque in cyber culture, demonstrating the ways participants both flaunt and defy normative ideas of "Caribbeanness" in online and macro environments.
The American Journal of Psychiatry
Title | The American Journal of Psychiatry PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 610 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Electronic journals |
ISBN |
Movement. Movements of curvature. Tropic movements. Locomotory and protoplasmic movements. The production of heat, light, and electricity. The sources and transformations of energy in the plant
Title | Movement. Movements of curvature. Tropic movements. Locomotory and protoplasmic movements. The production of heat, light, and electricity. The sources and transformations of energy in the plant PDF eBook |
Author | Wilhelm Pfeffer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 472 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Plant physiology |
ISBN |
Monthly Weather Review
Title | Monthly Weather Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1298 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Electronic journals |
ISBN |
The Monist
Title | The Monist PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Carus |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 644 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Electronic journals |
ISBN |
Vols. 2 and 5 include appendices.
The State Hospital Quarterly
Title | The State Hospital Quarterly PDF eBook |
Author | New York (State). State Hospitals Commission |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 874 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Psychiatric hospitals |
ISBN |
A service journal containing minutes of the conferences of the Commission with the officials of state hospitals, statistical data, announcements etc.
The State Hospital Quarterly
Title | The State Hospital Quarterly PDF eBook |
Author | New York (State). State Hospital Commission |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1002 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | |
ISBN |