Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Apple of His Island: Introduction
  • pt. I. Ideology. 1. Becoming Home: Modeling the Caribbean Subject. 2. Is There That I Born: The Gift of Place. 3. Where Else to Row, but Backward? Dealing with History. 4. The Mind ... Sees Its Mythopoeic Coast: Manipulating Myth
  • pt. II. Craft. 5. The Smell of Our Own Speech: The Tool of Language. 6. A Crystal of Ambiguities: The Craft of Mythopoeic Imagery. 7. Appropriating Heirlooms: The Fortunate Traveler's Intertext. 8. The Theatre of Our Lives: Founding an Epic Drama. 9. All You Stick Together: The Epic Federation Dream. 10. The Moment of Stillness: The Arrivants' Last Carnival. 11. The Joy of the Ghost Dance: The American Epic. 12. The Echo of the Shape: Metamorphosis of the Homeric.