Perspectives on the 'other America' : comparative approaches to Caribbean and Latin American culture /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Textxet, studies in comparative literature ; 60 Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 60.
Subject:	Regionalism -- Caribbean Area. Regionalism in literature. Civilization. Regionalism in literature. Regionalism. Caribbean Area -- Civilization. Caribbean Area. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11199535

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Other authors / contributors:	Niblett, Michael. Oloff, Kerstin.
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

Table of Contents:

Preliminary Material
Acknowledgements
Regionalism and the Caribbean / Michael Niblett and Kerstin Oloff
Expanding the Caribbean / Peter Hulme
The Arc of the 'Other America': Landscape, Nature, and Region in Eric Walrond's Tropic Death / Michael Niblett
'American' Landscapes and Erasures: Frederic Church's The Vale of St. Thomas and the Recovery of History in Landscape Painting / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Other Americas, Other Genderings: Postcolonial Heroines and Rhizomatic Geographies in Patrick Chamoiseau's Biblique des derniers gestes / Heidi Bojsen
"No Storm to Blow Me Over?" Mapping Same-Sex Sexuality in the Other Americas / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
"Más allá de la información": Region, Culture and the Imagination. An Interview / Mayra Santos-Febres
The Twilight Zone: Puerto Rico's Cultural Identity in the Work of José Luis González / Néstor E. Rodríguez
The Ethics of Postcolonial Healing in Astrid Roemer's Trilogy of Suriname / Patricia Krus
Cross-Cultural Poetics: Debating the Place of Afro-Mexican Poetry in the Context of Caribbean Literary and Cultural Aesthetics / Paulette Ramsay
Exile, Caribbean Literature, and the World Republic of Letters / Theo D'haen
Wilson Harris, Regionalism and Postcolonial Studies / Kerstin D. Oloff
Region, Location and Aesthetics: An Interview / Lawrence Scott.

Perspectives on the 'other America' : comparative approaches to Caribbean and Latin American culture /

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