LEADER 03955nam 2200745 450 001 9910453706803321 005 20211006012133.0 010 $a1-78138-794-X 010 $a1-78138-940-3 010 $a1-84631-998-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000001151019 035 $a(EBL)1591041 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001189925 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11777559 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001189925 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11198478 035 $a(PQKB)10935572 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000174516 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1481064 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781387948 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1481064 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10785777 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL878022 035 $a(OCoLC)863822170 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1591041 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1591041 035 $a(OCoLC)867929563 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001151019 100 $a20131109d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSurveying the American tropics $ea literary geography from New York to Rio /$fedited by Maria Cristina Fumagalli [and three others] 210 1$aLiverpool, England :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (732 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography 225 0$aAmerican tropics 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-84631-890-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Di?az'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 Oloffson 327 $aDark 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; Index 330 $aAmerican Tropics' refers to a kind of extended Caribbean, an area that includes the southern USA, the Atlantic littoral of Central America, the Caribbean islands, and northern South America. European colonial powers fought intensively here against indigenous populations and against each other for control of land and resources. The regions in the American Tropics share a history in which the dominant fact is the arrival of millions of white Europeans and black Africans; share an environment that is tropical or sub-tropical; and share a socio-economic model (the plantation), whose effects lasted 410 0$aAmerican Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCaribbean literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCentral American literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLatin American literature$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCaribbean literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCentral American literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLatin American literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.897 701 $aFumagalli$b Maria Cristina$0941369 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453706803321 996 $aSurveying the American tropics$92443107 997 $aUNINA