The Other America

by Dash, J. Michael

• ISBN13: 9780813917641
• ISBN10: 0813917646
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr

Summary

A wide-ranging work that explores two centuries of Caribbean literature from a comparative perspective. While haunted by the need to establish cultural difference and authenticity, Caribbean thought is inherently modernist in its recognition of the interplay between cultures, brought about by centuries of contact, domination, and consent.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Tropes and Tropicality	p. 21
Modernism, Modernity, and Otherness: Self-Fashioning in Nineteenth-Century Haiti	p. 43
Orphic Explanations: Toward a Caribbean Heterocosm	p. 61
A New World Mediterranean: The Novel and Knowledge	p. 82
Fields of Play: Parody and the Postmodern	p. 107
A Poetics of Liminality: Another Caribbean Fin de Siecle	p. 134
Conclusion: View of Twilight in the Tropics	p. 159
Notes	p. 165
Bibliography	p. 181
Index	p. 193
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