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An intellectual history of the Caribbean / Silvio Torres-Saillant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Torres-Saillant, Silvio.
- Series:
- New directions in Latino American cultures.
- New directions in Latino American cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caribbean Area--History.
- Caribbean Area.
- Caribbean Area--Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is first intellectual history of the Caribbean written by a top Caribbean studies scholar. The book examines both the work of natives of the region as well as texts interpretive of the region produced by Western authors. Stressing the experimental and cultural particularity of the Caribbean, the study considers major questions in the field.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: Caribbean Unity in Nature, History, and Prospects
- The Name and the Mystery
- The Physical Environment
- Conquest and Domination
- The Cultural Geography
- Forging the Modern World Imperially
- The Languages and Cultures
- On Knowing the Caribbean
- The Musical Turn
- The Last Resort of Culture
- The Rhythms of Success
- Shrinking Thought Horizons
- Farewell to the Future
- Musical Consolation
- 1 Colonial Migration and Theoric Awakening
- An Antillean's Voyage of Discovery
- A Theoric Preamble
- Knowledge in My Father's House
- Invasion and Two-Way Mobility
- Foreign Domination, Native Identity
- Child Labor, Invasion, Migration
- Power, Authority, and the Resistive Spirit
- On the Partiality of Book Learning
- Inequity in the Market of Ideas
- Western Education and Colonial Alterity
- Reading with an Attitude
- Commitment to Theory and Ethnic Predicament
- Ethnicity at Siege in the Global Society
- The Enduring Significance of Borders
- Intellectual Self-Defense in Caribbean Thought
- 2 The Endless History: The Caribbean versus Western Discourse
- A Zone of Alterity
- On Negative Ontology
- Haiti in the Antillean World
- Alter Native Creolity
- History as Hieroglyph and the Postcolonial
- The Enduring Plantation
- Intellects as Maroons
- 3 Caliban's Dilemma: A Disabling Memory and Possible Hope
- Columbian Language and the Trauma
- Caliban's Caribbean Contingency
- Unkept Promises, Precarious Hope
- Quisqueya's Unreliable Caliban
- Exogenous Paradigms
- Anatomy of Disillusionment
- The Colonial Border Today
- Homo Migrans
- Caliban Reformed: A Vision of the Future
- Epilogue: A Century of Caribbean Diaspora
- Works Cited
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T.
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- Blank Page.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611369989
- 9781281369987
- 1281369985
- 9781403983367
- 1403983364
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