The Culture of Violence in Trinidad and Tobago: A Case Study
The plan for this Special Issue of the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies came from a Workshop which Paula and I ran with the support of the Centre for Gender Studies at St. Augustine in May 2004. At that time we were working on Writing Rage (Morgan and Youssef, 2006), a collection of essays in which we explored the treatment of violent encounters in Caribbean society through diverse discourses, both spoken and written. As we delved through not only the literature, but the media, the judicial record, personal narratives and the history of the region, we rediscovered how deeply ingrained into the fabric of Caribbean society are both the violent response and its diverse interpretations. There was a strong gender and family element in the violence, both historically and currently, since women and children inevitably bore the brunt of the violence, as being the weaker, both physically and socially; while the male was more often the perpetrator of violence but yet emerged as deeply scarred by it, lashing out at myriad overwhelming situations and circumstances.
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| Format: | Article biblioteca |
| Language: | en_US |
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2013-07-11
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| Subjects: | violence, culture, Caribbean, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2139/16011 |
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