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

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Niblett, Michael, Oloff, Kerstin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009.
Colección:Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 60.
Temas:
Regionalism > Caribbean Area.
Regionalism in literature.
Régionalisme > Caraïbes (Région)
Littérature régionale.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Civilization.
Regionalism.
Caribbean Area > Civilization.
Caribbean Area.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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