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The Repeating Island The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective

The Repeating Island The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective Paperback - 1997

by Antonio Benitez-Rojo And James E. Maraniss

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  • Title The Repeating Island The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective
  • Author Antonio Benitez-Rojo And James E. Maraniss
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Second Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 376
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press Books, Durham, NC
  • Date 1997
  • Bookseller's Inventory # TOBC-13273-A-0.97
  • ISBN 9780822318651 / 0822318652
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 14.99 x 2.79 cm)
  • Reading level 1470
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
  • Library of Congress subjects Caribbean literature (Spanish) - History and, Caribbean Area - Civilization
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-14685
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.897

From the publisher

In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Bentez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Bentez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Bentez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean--the area's discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics--there emerges an "island" of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Bentez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guilln, Carpentier, Garca Mrquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodrguez Juli.

From the rear cover

In this section edition of the Repeating Island, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism.

About the author

Antonio Bentez-Rojo is the Thomas B. Walton, Jr., Memorial Professor at Amherst College.

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