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A History of Literature in the Caribbean : Volume 3: Cross-Cultural Studies
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arnold, A. James.
- Series:
- Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caribbean literature--History and criticism.
- Local Subjects:
- Caribbean literature--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (417 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Cross-Cultural Studies is the culminating effort of a distinguished team of international scholars who have worked since the mid-1980s to create the most complete analysis of Caribbean literature ever undertaken. Conceived as a major contribution to postcolonial studies, cultural studies, cultural anthropology, and regional studies of the Caribbean and the Americas, Cross-Cultural Studies illuminates the interrelations between and among Europe, the Caribbean islands, Africa, and the American continents from the late fifteenth century to the present. Scholars from five continents
- Contents:
- A HISTORY OF LITERATURE IN THE CARIBBEAN; Editorial page; Title page; LCC Data; General preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Charting the Caribbean as a Literary Region; Preliminary Approaches; Literary Creoleness and Chaos Theory; Problematics of Literary Historiography; Literature and Popular Culture; Carnival and Carnivalization; Gender and Identity; The Caliban Complex; Genre and Postcoloniality; Cross-Cultural Currents and Conundrums; Index to Names
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-16217-9
- 9786612162176
- 90-272-9777-0
- OCLC:
- 669957226
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