A wide-ranging work that explores two centuries of Caribbean literature from a comparative perspective. While haunted by the need to establish cultural difference and authenticity, Caribbean thought is inherently modernist in its recognition of the interplay between cultures, brought about by centuries of contact, domination, and consent.
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In this thoroughly researched new book, J. Michael Dash examines the question of self-definition in the Caribbean. Beginning in nineteenth-century Haiti and ending in today's Martinique, Dash analyzes he achievements and shortcomings of some of the most important literary efforts in their attempts to come to terms with the region's characteristics- plantation origins, unfinished modernity, sociocultural heterogeneity, liminality, and archipelagic instability.
(Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Amherst College )About the Author
J. Michael Dash is Professor of Francophone Literature and Chairman of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of the West Indies. He has authored five previous books and translated Edouard Glissant's Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays.
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One of the most urgent and complex issues left in the wake of the quincentenary celebrations of Columbus's voyage to the New World-or the encounter between two worlds, as it has been evasively called-is the definition of a new field of research and scholarship termed New World studies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
interlectal space, foundational poetics, exoticist discourse, marvelous realism, des soupirs, island space, modernist poetics, cited page numbers, compensatory fantasy, negritude movement, novelistic discourse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Lost Steps, Latin American, United States, Caribbean Discourse, West Indian, Derek Walcott, Gordon Lewis, Port of Spain, Third World, Fonds Rouge, John Perse, Michel Foucault, Caribbean Sea, Marshall Berman, World War, Christian West, Edouard Glissant, Gabriel Garcia, Manman Dlo, Milan Kundera, North American, The Muse of History, Wilson Harris New!
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One of the most urgent and complex issues left in the wake of the quincentenary celebrations of Columbus's voyage to the New World-or the encounter between two worlds, as it has been evasively called-is the definition of a new field of research and scholarship termed New World studies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
interlectal space, foundational poetics, exoticist discourse, marvelous realism, des soupirs, island space, modernist poetics, cited page numbers, compensatory fantasy, negritude movement, novelistic discourse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Lost Steps, Latin American, United States, Caribbean Discourse, West Indian, Derek Walcott, Gordon Lewis, Port of Spain, Third World, Fonds Rouge, John Perse, Michel Foucault, Caribbean Sea, Marshall Berman, World War, Christian West, Edouard Glissant, Gabriel Garcia, Manman Dlo, Milan Kundera, North American, The Muse of History, Wilson Harris New!
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- Carribbean Discourse: Selected Essays (Caribbean and African Literature) by Edouard Glissant on 22 pages
- The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier on 13 pages
- The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents) by Bill Ashcroft on 6 pages
- The Labyrinth of Solitude: The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, the Philanthropic Ogre by Octavio Paz on 5 pages
- Beyond A Boundary by C. L. R. James on 5 pages
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- Ici-Là: Place and Displacement in Caribbean Writing in French (Cross/Cultures 62) by Mary Gallagher on 5 pages
- Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott by Paul Breslin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Linking The Americas: Race, Hybrid Discourses, And The Reformulation Of Feminine Identity (Suny Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture) by Lesley Feracho in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Francophone Caribbean Today: Literature, Language, Culture by Gertrud Aub-Buscher on page 38, page 44, and Back Matter
- Voicing Memory: History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature (New World Studies) by Nick Nesbitt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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