| Description |
xii, 303 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
New World studies
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New World studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-290) and index. |
| Contents |
Sugar and the environment in Cuba / Antonio Benítez-Rojo -- Isla incognita / Derek Walcott -- Shaping the environment : sugar plantation, or life after identured labor / Cyril Dabydeen -- Coffee and colonialism in Julia Alvarez's A cafecito story / Trenton Hickman -- Subjection and resistance in the transformation of Guyana's mytho-colonial landscape / Shona N. Jackson -- A long bilingual conversation concerning paradise lost : landscapes in Haitian art / LeGrace Benson -- "Caribbean genesis" : language, gardens, worlds (Jamaica Kincaid, Derek Walcott, Édouard Glissant) / Jana Evans Braziel -- "The argument of the outboard motor" : an interview with Derek Walcott / George B. Handley -- Cultural and environmental assimilation in Martinique : an interview with Raphaël Confiant / Renée K. Gosson -- Moving the Caribbean landscape : Cereus blooms at night as a re-imagination of the Caribbean environment / Isabel Hoving -- "Rosebud is my mama, stanfaste is my papa" : hybrid landscapes and sexualities in Surinamese oral literature / Natasha Tinsley -- "He of the trees" : nature, environment, and Creole religiosities in Caribbean literature / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- "Man fitting the landscape" : nature, culture, and colonialism / Helen Tiffin -- Flashbacks of an orchid : rhizomatic narration in Patrick Chamoiseau's Biblique des derniers gestes / Heidi Bojsen -- Landscapes, narratives, and tropical nature : Creole modernity in Suriname / Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger -- The uses of landscape : ecocriticism and Martinican cultural theory / Eric Prieto -- From living nature to borderless culture in Wilson Harris's work / Hena Maes-Jelinek -- Epilogue : Theatre of the arts / Wilson Harris. |
| Subject |
Caribbean literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Caribbean literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Ecology in literature.
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Ecology in literature. |
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Nature in literature.
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Nature in literature. |
| Added Author |
DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., 1967-
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Gosson, Renée K.
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Handley, George B., 1964-
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| ISBN |
0813923727 paperback alkaline paper |
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0813923735 hardback alkaline paper |
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9780813923734 hardback alkaline paper |
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9780813923727 paperback alkaline paper |
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