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The Post-Columbus Syndrome : Identities, Cultural Nationalism, and Commemorations in the Caribbean / by F. Viala.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Viala, F., Author.
- Series:
- New Caribbean Studies, 2634-5196
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- America--History.
- America.
- Literature.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Ethnology--Latin America.
- Ethnology.
- Imperialism.
- History of the Americas.
- World Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Latin American Culture.
- Imperialism and Colonialism.
- Local Subjects:
- History of the Americas.
- World Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Latin American Culture.
- Imperialism and Colonialism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (293 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Reflecting on the relationship between memory, power, and national identity, this book examines the complex reactions of the people of the Caribbean to the 500th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World. Viala analyzes the ways in which Columbus became a reservoir of metaphors to confront anxieties of the present with myths of the past.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction-The Post-Columbus Syndrome: A Comparative Approach to Caribbean Memory in the Longue Durée; Part I: Post-Columbus Systems of Memory: Recycling Heritage in the Caribbean; 1 Transculturation as Commemoration: Fernando Ortiz, the Cuban longue durée, and the Role of Columbus; 2 Edward Kamau Brathwaite's Transnational Anamnesis: Creolizing Columbus in the English Caribbean Collective Memory; 3 The Snake, the Shore, and Columbus: Edouard Glissant's Anamnesis of the French Département d'Outre-Mer
- 4 Anamnesis, Chaos, and Columbus: Antonio Benítez Rojo and the Caribbean Feedback-MachinePart II: Anamnesis Caribensis: Columbus in 1992; 5 Columbus The Memorious: Commemorations of the 500th Anniversary of the Discovery of the New World in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic; 6 Christopher Columbus in the English Caribbean:Commemoration and Performance in Jamaica; 7 Columbus in Guadeloupe and Martinique: Amnesia and Commemoration in the French Outremer; 8 Columbus, the Scapegoat, and the Zombie: Performance and Tales of the National Memory in Haiti
- Conclusion: Toward an Archipelagic MemoryNotes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137439918
- 1137439912
- 9781349495405
- 1349495409
- 9781137439895
- 1137439890
- OCLC:
- 894336177
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