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Surveying the American Tropics : a literary geography from New York to Rio /

A collection of essays from distinguished international scholars that explore the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fumagalli, Maria Cristina (Editor ), Hulme, Peter (Editor ), Robinson, Owen (Editor ), Wylie, Lesley (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
Colección:American tropics ; 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A tree grows in Bajan Brooklyn : writing Caribbean New York / Martha Jane Nadell
  • Reading the novum world : the literary geography of science fiction in Junot Diaz's The brief wonderful life of Oscar Wao / María del Pilar Blanco
  • Inventing tropicality : writing fever, writing trauma in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead and Gardens in the dunes / Hsinya Huang
  • Imperial archaeology : the American isthmus as contested scientific contact zone / Gesa Mackenthun
  • Space age tropics / Mimi Sheller
  • Black Jacobins and new world Mediterraneans / Susan Gillman
  • The Oloffson / Alasdair Pettinger
  • Dark thresholds in Trinidad : regarding the colonial house / Jak Peake
  • Micronations of the Caribbean / Russell McDougall
  • Golden kings, cocaine lords, and the madness of El Dorado : Guayana as native and colonial imaginary / Neil L. Whitehead
  • Suriname literary geography : the changing same / Richard Price and Sally Price
  • The art of observation : race and landscape in A journey in Brazil / Nina Gerassi-Navarro.