Caribbean Inhospitality

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.

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