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Pathologies of paradise : Caribbean detours / Supriya M. Nair.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nair, Supriya, 1961-
- Series:
- New World Studies
- New world studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caribbean literature (English)--History and criticism.
- Caribbean literature (English).
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Caribbean detours
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In ranging across multiple contexts, generations, and genres, the book maps a syncretic and flexible approach to Caribbean literature that demonstrates the supple literary cartographies of New World identities.
- Contents:
- The empire and the garden: exhuming bones, inscribing genealogies
- Toxic domesticity, curative kinship: individual and national trauma in domestic fiction
- "Disasters in the sun": crime and carnival magic, science, fantasy, and religion
- Medusa's laugh: carnivalesque comedy and the Caribbean.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813935188
- 0813935180
- 9780813935195
- 0813935199
- OCLC:
- 855899962
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb33244 hdl
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