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  • Symbolic cities in Caribbean literature[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 809/.93358209732
    書名/作者: Symbolic cities in Caribbean literature/ Christopher Winks.
    作者: Winks, Christopher.
    出版者: New York, NY : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
    面頁冊數: xviii, 194 p. ;; 22 cm.
    標題: Caribbean literature - History and criticism.
    標題: Cities and towns in literature.
    ISBN: 9780230621572
    ISBN: 0230621570
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-188) and index.
    內容註: Thalassal histories -- Building the magic city -- Containing the ancestral house : the literary legacies of marronage -- Two, three, many Havanas : ventures into a repeating city -- City of disor city of renewal?
    摘要、提要註: This incisive comparative study analyzes Caribbean literary representations of magic and invisible cities in new and exciting ways. In a comprehensive approach, Winks' study ranges from literary portraits of ElDorado, to the remembered holy cities in African-based New World religions, to the secret Havanas of modern Cuban literature. Grounded in thevisionary poetics of Caribbean creative writers/theorists, this book explores various cross-lingual and cross-cultural strands in the Caribbean counterpoint, with particular attention to the creative exploration and reworking of the notion ofthe city as both instituted social spaceand imaginary community. It also deals with the treatment of the utopian dimension as a space of hope against heritages of enslavement, colonial oppression, and postcolonial anomie. The study will be of interest to scholars of comparative literature, Caribbean and Latin American studies, inter-American poetics, and the African diasporas.
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