The imaginary Caribbean and Caribbean imaginary /

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"The Imaginary is everywhere in representations of the Caribbean Islands and their people and has been ever since their "discoverers" dreamt themselves arriving, triumphant, in the Indies. This book poses a provocative question: When the Imaginary occupies the place of the Real, as in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Praeger, Michèle
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Caribbean fiction (French) > History and criticism.
Creoles in literature.
Roman antillais (français) > Histoire et critique.
Créoles dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Caribbean fiction (French)
Creoles in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Caribbean as Imagined by Historians and Psychoanalysts
  • 2. Performing Caribbean Histories and Deraisons
  • 3. The Island Walkers and the Forest Wanderer
  • 4. Creolite and Its Discontents
  • 5. The Creolization of the Je
  • 6. France and Its Caribbean "Peripheral."

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