Surveying the American tropics : a literary geography from New York to Rio /
edited by Maria Cristina Fumagalli [and three others].
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (732 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Includes index.. - Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Introduction; A Tree Grows in Bajan Brooklyn: Writing Caribbean New York; Reading the Novum World: The Literary Geography of Science Fiction in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Inventing Tropicality: Writing Fever, Writing Trauma in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead and Gardens in the Dunes; Imperial Archaeology: The American Isthmus as Contested Scientific Contact Zone; Space Age Tropics; Black Jacobins and New World Mediterraneans; The Oloffson. - Dark Thresholds in Trinidad: Regarding the Colonial HouseMicronations of the Caribbean; Golden Kings, Cocaine Lords, and the Madness of El Dorado: Guayana as Native and Colonial Imaginary; Suriname Literary Geography: The Changing Same; The Art of Observation: Race and Landscape in A Journey in Brazil; Notes on Contributors and Editors; Notes; Index. - American Tropics' refers to a kind of extended Caribbean, an area that includes the southern USA, the Atlantic littoral of Central America, the Caribbean islands, and northern South America. European colonial powers fought intensively here against indigenous populations and against each other for control of land and resources. The regions in the American Tropics share a history in which the dominant fact is the arrival of millions of white Europeans and black Africans; share an environment that is tropical or sub-tropical; and share a socio-economic model (the plantation), whose effects lasted
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| ISBN | 1-78138-794-X. - 1-78138-940-3. - 1-84631-998-6
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