African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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317 p, Contains: Introduction : paradise and imperialism -- Caribbean wasteland -- Paradise is plantation? -- Naipaul's "Garden of hell" -- Walcott's postcolonial Adam -- World out of time -- Conclusion : the true history of paradise.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
280 p, Quetzalcoatl and the smoking mirror (reflections on originality and tradition) / Wilson Harris -- Beyond a boundary: Magical realism in the Jamaican frame of reference / Erna Brodber -- Of boloms, mirrors, and monkeymen: what's real and what's not in Robert Antoni's Divina Trace / Rhonda Cobham -- Boeli van Leeuwen's The sign of Jonah: eschatology in the Dutch Caribbean / André Lefevere -- Omeros: Walcott and the tradition / John Chioles -- Plantation emblems in the Dutch seventeenth century: Albert Helman's contrastive analysis / Ineke Phaf -- Beyond sites of execution: Haiti and the historical imagination in C.L.R. James and Alejo Carpentier -- In the name of the mother: Lamming and the cultural significance of "mother country" in the decolonization process / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o -- "A different kind of creature": Caribbean literature, the Cyclops factor and the second poetics of the propter nos / Sylvia Wynter -- The erotics of colonialism in contemporary French West Indian literary culture / A. James Arnold -- Paul Gilroy's slaves, ships, and routes: the middle passage as a metaphor / Joan Dayan -- Creolization and nation building in the Hispanic Caribbean / Antonio Benítez-Rojo -- Sketching a literature from the French Antilles: from negritude to Créolité / Maryse Condé -- The unity of Caribbean literature: a position / Silvio Torres-Saillant -- Realisms of the fictive imagination: outsmarting Sisyphus, amending Eldorado, writing Caribbean / Timothy J. Reiss.;
