03955nam 2200745 450 991045370680332120211006012133.01-78138-794-X1-78138-940-31-84631-998-6(CKB)2550000001151019(EBL)1591041(SSID)ssj0001189925(PQKBManifestationID)11777559(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001189925(PQKBWorkID)11198478(PQKB)10935572(StDuBDS)EDZ0000174516(MiAaPQ)EBC1481064(UkCbUP)CR9781781387948(Au-PeEL)EBL1481064(CaPaEBR)ebr10785777(CaONFJC)MIL878022(OCoLC)863822170(MiAaPQ)EBC1591041(Au-PeEL)EBL1591041(OCoLC)867929563(EXLCZ)99255000000115101920131109d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSurveying the American tropics a literary geography from New York to Rio /edited by Maria Cristina Fumagalli [and three others]Liverpool, England :Liverpool University Press,2013.©20131 online resource (732 p.)American Tropics: Towards a Literary GeographyAmerican tropicsIncludes index.1-84631-890-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Introduction; A Tree Grows in Bajan Brooklyn: Writing Caribbean New York; Reading the Novum World: The Literary Geography of Science Fiction in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Inventing Tropicality: Writing Fever, Writing Trauma in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead and Gardens in the Dunes; Imperial Archaeology: The American Isthmus as Contested Scientific Contact Zone; Space Age Tropics; Black Jacobins and New World Mediterraneans; The OloffsonDark Thresholds in Trinidad: Regarding the Colonial HouseMicronations of the Caribbean; Golden Kings, Cocaine Lords, and the Madness of El Dorado: Guayana as Native and Colonial Imaginary; Suriname Literary Geography: The Changing Same; The Art of Observation: Race and Landscape in A Journey in Brazil; Notes on Contributors and Editors; Notes; IndexAmerican Tropics' refers to a kind of extended Caribbean, an area that includes the southern USA, the Atlantic littoral of Central America, the Caribbean islands, and northern South America. European colonial powers fought intensively here against indigenous populations and against each other for control of land and resources. The regions in the American Tropics share a history in which the dominant fact is the arrival of millions of white Europeans and black Africans; share an environment that is tropical or sub-tropical; and share a socio-economic model (the plantation), whose effects lastedAmerican Tropics: Towards a Literary GeographyAmerican literatureHistory and criticismCaribbean literatureHistory and criticismCentral American literatureHistory and criticismLatin American literatureHistory and criticismElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Caribbean literatureHistory and criticism.Central American literatureHistory and criticism.Latin American literatureHistory and criticism.809.897Fumagalli Maria Cristina941369MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453706803321Surveying the American tropics2443107UNINA