Perspectives on the 'other America' : comparative approaches to Caribbean and Latin American culture /
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Imprint: | Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Textxet, studies in comparative literature ; 60 Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 60. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11199535 |
Other authors / contributors: | Niblett, Michael. Oloff, Kerstin. |
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ISBN: | 9789042027053 9042027053 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references. Print version record. |
Summary: | Uniting critical writing on novels, poetry, painting, and ritual, this volume takes a regional approach to the cultures of the Caribbean Basin. Ranging across the linguistic spectrum of the area, it examines cultural production from the Anglophone, Francophone, and Hispanophone islands, Suriname and the Guyanas, and 'Latin' and Central America. The interdisciplinary nature of the collection and the challenge it poses to the balkanization of the region within academic discourse will make it of especial interest to students and scholars of the Caribbean. Inspired by the category of the 'Other America' as developed by Édouard Glissant, the book offers a series of original and stimulating engagements with topics that include nationalism, migration and exile, landscape and the environment, gender and sexuality, and Postcolonial Studies and 'world literature'. In addition to contributions by leading scholars such as Peter Hulme, Theo D'haen, and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, it contains interviews with two renowned novelists from the region, Lawrence Scott and Mayra Santos-Febres. Underpinning the collection is an interrogation of received ideas of the nation-state and a suggestion that regionalism might provide a better optic through which to view the circum-Caribbean - that national consciousness, in other words, must always also be a regional consciousness. |
Other form: | Print version: Perspectives on the 'other America'. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009 9789042027046 |
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