Intellectual History of the Caribbean

Zusatztext Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006 '...is an extremely stimulating and at times provocative interpretive essay which examines and criticises a number of ways of looking at Caribbean history! society! and literature.' - John Gilmore! The Caribbean Review of Books '...this is a work of impressive erudition! interdisciplinary in scope and pan-Caribbean by Conviction.' - Clem Seecharan! Modernism / Modernity Informationen zum Autor SILVIO TORRES-SAILLANT is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Latino-Latin American Studies Programme, Syracuse University, New York, USA. Klappentext This is first intellectual history of the Caribbean written by a top Caribbean studies scholar. The book examines both the work of natives of the region as well as texts interpretive of the region produced by Western authors. Stressing the experimental and cultural particularity of the Caribbean, the study considers major questions in the field. Zusammenfassung This is first intellectual history of the Caribbean written by a top Caribbean studies scholar. The book examines both the work of natives of the region as well as texts interpretive of the region produced by Western authors. Stressing the experimental and cultural particularity of the Caribbean! the study considers major questions in the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Caribbean Unity in Nature, in History, in Defeat Colonial Migration and Theoric Awakening: An Antillean's Voyage of Discovery The Neverending History: Western Discursive Siege Caliban's Betrayal: Failed Heroes, Memory Remade, New Ways to Hope Epilogue: A Century of Caribbean Diaspora

Produktdetails

• Autoren: S Torres-Saillant, S. Torres-Saillant, Silvio Torres-Saillant
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 17.01.2007
• EAN: 9781403966773
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-6677-3
• Abmessung: 150 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Serien: New Directions in Latino American Cultures; New Directions in Latino Ameri; New Directions in Latino American Cultures; New Directions in Latino Ameri
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geisteswissenschaften allgemein; Schule und Lernen > Unterrichtsvorbereitung > Berufliche Bildung; B, History, History of Ideas, Literature: history & criticism, History of the Americas, North America (USA and Canada), Palgrave History Collection, America—History, Intellectual life—History, Intellectual Studies, Latin American Culture, Ethnology—Latin America, America—Literatures, North American Literature, Caribbean;intellectual history;migration