Jean-Paul Duviols and Pedro Ureña-Rib have compiled a wealth of information on Caribbean cultures in their beautiful volume, Dictionnaire culturel des Caraïbes. Written with students in mind but also directed at a wider audience-those who wish to learn more about the rich cultural diversity of the Caribbean at large-this dictionary offers clear and concise entries on a variety of topics in the areas of history, biography, literature, visual arts, music, and popular traditions. The authors’ goals are to provide a wide-ranging text for teachers and students interested in the Caribbean that will allow for a synergetic approach to the Dutch, English, French, and Spanish-speaking worlds, to enrich teaching options for instructors of languages and cultures, and to disseminate information about the leading figures and cultural production of the many countries connected by the Caribbean Sea.
Their broad selection of geographical areas include Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bonaire, the British Virgin Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Grenada, the Grenadines, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, French Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saba, St. Barthélemy (St. Barts), St. Eustatius, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Martin, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Venezuela.
Jean-Paul Duviols, professor emeritus of the Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, is a specialist in the colonial period, travel literature, and iconographic analysis. He has written numerous works on the European vision about the Americas, pedagogical approaches to teaching Spanish in France, and historical books for children. He is also the author of Dictionnaire culturel de l’Amérique Latine (2001).
Pedro Ureña-Rib is a professor and researcher at the University of the Antilles and Guyane (French Guiana) who specializes in Linguistics and Intercultural Education. He has lectured extensively and published articles on identity, slavery, Caribbean cultures, and intercultural communication.
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