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“A travelogue of love and scholarship. . . . [It] does the region splendid justice.” —The New York Times “Many have tried this before—to get hold of, in its entirety, the volatile, beautiful, relentlessly shifting Caribbean. Nobody has succeeded as dazzlingly.” —Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings“This terrific travel narrative . . . is also a magnificent musical journey (reggae, salsa and ska), a literary odyssey . . . and a heartfelt historical voyage. Island People powerfully shows how places shape people, and how people shape places.” —The Observer “Joshua Jelly-Schapiro possesses both a humanist’s irrepressible empathy and a journalist’s necessary skepticism. He reports carefully, researches exhaustively, cares deeply, and writes beautifully.”—Dave Eggers, author of Heroes of the Frontier “Joshua Jelly-Schapiro’s grand book on the Caribbean is so striking in form and vision that it amounts to something new—a constant surprise.”—Hilton Als, author of White Girls “Written with passion and joyful music in the prose, Island People will become an indispensable companion for anybody traveling to the Caribbean—or dreaming of doing so.”—Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
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About the Author
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper's, the Believer, Artforum, and The Nation, among many other publications. He is the co-editor, with Rebecca Solnit, of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, and a visiting scholar at New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge. This is his first book.
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Product details
Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (November 28, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345804996
ISBN-13: 978-0345804990
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.9 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.6 out of 5 stars
10 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#874,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Whether you're interested in Cuba or Jamaica, Trinidad or Puerto Rico, Haiti or the Lesser Antilles, this is the single best introduction to the Caribbean. Certainly there are scholars who know more about individual islands, but no one combines Jelly-Schapiro's breadth of knowledge--in history, literature, music, culture--with his writerly flare, on-the-ground reporting, and passion to show why and how "the Caribbean belongs at the center of any story we tell about the making of our modern world." An amazing work, ideal of teaching.Marlon James was right: "Many have tried this before -- to get hold of, in its entirety, the volatile, beautiful, relentlessly shifting Caribbean. Nobody has succeeded as dazzlingly as Joshua Jelly-Schapiro."
In ISLAND PEOPLE, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro takes his readers along with him on extended visits to more than a dozen Caribbean islands, including multiple chapters each on Jamaica, Cuba, and Haiti. With an accessible style, he shares the islands’ commonalities and differences through their varied histories and their music, literature, art, and politics. Much is revealed through personal exchanges and island-roaming with new-found local friends and acquaintances. Jelly-Schapiro’s travels here span more than the past decade, and he sometimes revisits friends made in previous chapters, thus showing recent directions of change.This is not a tourists’ guide to hotels, restaurants, and sights. Rather, this is travel writing at its finest, perhaps the best first-person narrative of experiences across the Caribbean since the classic THE TRAVELLER'S TREE by Patrick Leigh Fermor was published in 1950.I bought the hardback of Island People when it was released in November 2016, and read it slowly over three weeks, savoring each story/chapter. I very much enjoyed revisiting islands, music, and books I’ve had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with in person, and contemplating others I’d still like to visit and get to know better. (Now added to my Bucket List thanks to this book are Montserrat, Martinique, and Dominica.) ISLAND PEOPLE is a big book. Literally. Wanting to re-read chapters while traveling myself, I also have bought the Kindle edition. It’s that good.
A fantastic book. Informative, entertaining and insightful a wonderful read. Highly recommended.
Really interesting read. Happened upon this by chance.
Insightful, engaging "off-the-tourist-map" perspective of the people, culture, and history of the islands.
I picked this up expecting to get a first-hand account of Caribbean life. This is nothing more than a privileged American's account of travelling. He spends his entire Jamaica section talking about Bob Marley. The Cuban section was OK, but spent more time giving a history lesson of Cuba than actually talking about the people of Cuba. I expected more out of this. Disappointed.
Boring and Racist
This is a very fine book, among the best available about the Caribbean. It is not a travel guide, it is not a history but has aspects of both. Jelly-Schapiro loves the islands, and knows them well. The book is a sort of travelogue, with sizable chunks of history mixed in, and a good deal of what might be described as participant narration, about celebrations, conversations, trips and such that he and friends from the various places did together. The writing is excellent, opinionated, sometimes humorous, sometimes a bit preachy and sometimes passionate. He knows a great deal about music, and it got a bit technical in places when he describes the music and history of music in Cuba, Jamaica and elsewhere. The book has a useless map and no illustrations; more of both would strengthen it. There's also no index, making it hard to look for something you read.It starts in Jamaica, with a lot about Jamaican music and the Marley folks. I was amazed to learn that one small area produced Marcus Garvey, Harry Belafonte and Bob Marley. There's a good deal about politics. Then he moves on to Cuba, and these sections are wonderful. There's a lot about life in Cuba, Cuban music, the Castros, and politics, and explores the difficult subject of white and black Cubans. He plainly likes Cuba and Cubans. One thing I had not read of before; Cuba imported 800,000 slaves 1790-1867 but got 30,000 refugees from the Haitian revolution and embarked on a deliberate campaign to whiten Cuba by bringing over peasants from places lie Andalusia and Galicia.The next section is on Puerto Rico, including a lot of history that will not be familiar to most Americans. The Spanish authorities also tried a campaign of whitening the populace, bringing in an amazing mix, not just Spanish peasants but also Catalans, French, Corsicans, Irish and Genoese. His discussion of the island as an American possession is damning of American assumptions and government. Then on to the Dominican Republic and Haiti. He doesn't seem to like the Dominicans much, or at least their government, and much of the section is about Haitian folks in the DR, which recently decided to deport Haitians--only partly done, but the 1930s massacres of Haitians in the DR is in the background. His sections about Haiti are the best I have ever read about the island, mixing recent and longer-term history with politics--he likes the Haitians, really likes them.That's much of the book. The remainder is the smaller islands, including the Caymans, Grenada, Barbuda, Montserrat and Antigua. He discusses the politics of the revolution in Grenada in some detail, and again US policy and actions come across as ill-informed. The next section is on the French Guadeloupe and Martinique, one of the most interesting parts of the book. Much of it amounts to an analysis of the impact of two writers, Frantz Fanon and Aimee Cesaire, which some readers may find tedious, although their influence on the left and on African intellectuals has been great (not so much influence in the English-speaking world). A chapter on Dominica likewise is largely a discussion of the life of Jean Rhys (who wrote "The Wide Sargasso Sea")--but it uses that discussion to consider Dominican history and culture.The book ends in Trinidad, a lively section, with carnival, music and complicated politics, perhaps the best I have read about the place.Aside from the weaknesses of no index, no illustrations and a lousy map, this is an exceptional book that I recommend highly.
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