Time travel in the Latin American and Caribbean imagination : re-reading history / Rudyard J. Alcocer.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Alcocer, Rudyard J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Latin American literature--History and criticism.
• Latin American literature.
• Caribbean fiction--History and criticism.
• Time travel in literature.
• Time perception in literature.
• Caribbean fiction.

Physical Description:

xv, 238 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

What if you could travel back in time several centuries to pivotal moments in the history of the Americas? The Conquest, for instance. What if, furthermore, you could intervene in these moments? What would you do and why? What if you could pre-empt the slave trade? Conversely, what if people from those long-past moments visited our epoch? Why would they come to us and what would they tell us? Time Travel in the Latin American and Caribbean Imagination explores both why these questions are profoundly important as well as how recent fictions from and about the region have answered them. Book jacket.

Contents:

• Continuing encounters: journeys to (and from) the "discovery" and conquest of the Americas
• On island time? temporal displacement and the Caribbean
• The ghost of La Malinche: time travel and feminism
• Not just kids' stuff: time travel as pedagogy in the Americas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780230117983
• 0230117988

OCLC:

708357901