| Description |
1 online resource (x, 365 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
American tropics ; 2
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American tropics ; 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
A collection of essays from distinguished international scholars that explore the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Caribbean literature -- History and criticism.
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Caribbean literature. |
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Central American literature -- History and criticism.
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Central American literature. |
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Latin American literature -- History and criticism.
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Latin American literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Fumagalli, Maria Cristina, editor.
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Hulme, Peter, editor.
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Robinson, Owen, editor.
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Wylie, Lesley, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Surveying the American Tropics 9781846318900 (OCoLC)829056219 |
| ISBN |
9781846319983 (electronic book) |
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1846319986 (electronic book) |
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9781781387948 |
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178138794X |
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9781846318900 |
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1846318904 |
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