Perspectives on the 'other America' : : comparative approaches to Caribbean and Latin American culture / / edited by Michael Niblett and Kerstin Oloff.

• Superior document: Textxet, studies in comparative literature ; 60
• TeilnehmendeR: Niblett, Michael.; Oloff, Kerstin.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature 60.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Uniting critical writing on novels, poetry, painting, and ritual, this volume takes a regional approach to the cultures of the Caribbean Basin. Ranging across the linguistic spectrum of the area, it examines cultural production from the Anglophone, Francophone, and Hispanophone islands, Suriname and the Guyanas, and ‘Latin’ and Central America. The interdisciplinary nature of the collection and the challenge it poses to the balkanization of the region within academic discourse will make it of especial interest to students and scholars of the Caribbean. Inspired by the category of the ‘Other America’ as developed by Édouard Glissant, the book offers a series of original and stimulating engagements with topics that include nationalism, migration and exile, landscape and the environment, gender and sexuality, and Postcolonial Studies and ‘world literature’. In addition to contributions by leading scholars such as Peter Hulme, Theo D’haen, and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, it contains interviews with two renowned novelists from the region, Lawrence Scott and Mayra Santos-Febres. Underpinning the collection is an interrogation of received ideas of the nation-state and a suggestion that regionalism might provide a better optic through which to view the circum-Caribbean – that national consciousness, in other words, must always also be a regional consciousness.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Regionalism and the Caribbean / Michael Niblett and Kerstin Oloff -- Expanding the Caribbean / Peter Hulme -- The Arc of the ‘Other America’: Landscape, Nature, and Region in Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death / Michael Niblett -- ‘American’ Landscapes and Erasures: Frederic Church’s The Vale of St. Thomas and the Recovery of History in Landscape Painting / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- Other Americas, Other Genderings: Postcolonial Heroines and Rhizomatic Geographies in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Biblique des derniers gestes / Heidi Bojsen -- “No Storm to Blow Me Over?” Mapping Same-Sex Sexuality in the Other Americas / Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley -- “Más allá de la información”: Region, Culture and the Imagination. An Interview / Mayra Santos-Febres -- The Twilight Zone: Puerto Rico’s Cultural Identity in the Work of José Luis González / Néstor E. Rodríguez -- The Ethics of Postcolonial Healing in Astrid Roemer’s Trilogy of Suriname / Patricia Krus -- Cross-Cultural Poetics: Debating the Place of Afro-Mexican Poetry in the Context of Caribbean Literary and Cultural Aesthetics / Paulette Ramsay -- Exile, Caribbean Literature, and the World Republic of Letters / Theo D’haen -- Wilson Harris, Regionalism and Postcolonial Studies / Kerstin D. Oloff -- Region, Location and Aesthetics: An Interview / Lawrence Scott.