LEADER 04062nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910970110903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786611369989 010 $a9781281369987 010 $a1281369985 010 $a9781403983367 010 $a1403983364 024 7 $a10.1057/9781403983367 035 $a(CKB)1000000000342820 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000280842 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11240727 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280842 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10299734 035 $a(PQKB)10247975 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8336-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC307599 035 $a(Perlego)3497740 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000342820 100 $a20040602d2006 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 13$aAn intellectual history of the Caribbean /$fSilvio Torres-Saillant 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York, N.Y. $cPalgrave Macmillan$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) 225 1 $aNew directions in Latino American cultures 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781403966766 311 08$a1403966761 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-276) and index. 327 $aCover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Caribbean Unity in Nature, History, and Prospects -- The Name and the Mystery -- The Physical Environment -- Conquest and Domination -- The Cultural Geography -- Forging the Modern World Imperially -- The Languages and Cultures -- On Knowing the Caribbean -- The Musical Turn -- The Last Resort of Culture -- The Rhythms of Success -- Shrinking Thought Horizons -- Farewell to the Future -- Musical Consolation -- 1 Colonial Migration and Theoric Awakening -- An Antillean's Voyage of Discovery -- A Theoric Preamble -- Knowledge in My Father's House -- Invasion and Two-Way Mobility -- Foreign Domination, Native Identity -- Child Labor, Invasion, Migration -- Power, Authority, and the Resistive Spirit -- On the Partiality of Book Learning -- Inequity in the Market of Ideas -- Western Education and Colonial Alterity -- Reading with an Attitude -- Commitment to Theory and Ethnic Predicament -- Ethnicity at Siege in the Global Society -- The Enduring Significance of Borders -- Intellectual Self-Defense in Caribbean Thought -- 2 The Endless History: The Caribbean versus Western Discourse -- A Zone of Alterity -- On Negative Ontology -- Haiti in the Antillean World -- Alter Native Creolity -- History as Hieroglyph and the Postcolonial -- The Enduring Plantation -- Intellects as Maroons -- 3 Caliban's Dilemma: A Disabling Memory and Possible Hope -- Columbian Language and the Trauma -- Caliban's Caribbean Contingency -- Unkept Promises, Precarious Hope -- Quisqueya's Unreliable Caliban -- Exogenous Paradigms -- Anatomy of Disillusionment -- The Colonial Border Today -- Homo Migrans -- Caliban Reformed: A Vision of the Future -- Epilogue: A Century of Caribbean Diaspora -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T. 327 $aU -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Blank Page. 330 $aThis is first intellectual history of the Caribbean written by a top Caribbean studies scholar. The book examines both the work of natives of the region as well as texts interpretive of the region produced by Western authors. Stressing the experimental and cultural particularity of the Caribbean, the study considers major questions in the field. 410 0$aNew directions in Latino American cultures. 607 $aCaribbean Area$xHistory 607 $aCaribbean Area$xIntellectual life 676 $a972.90072 700 $aTorres-Saillant$b Silvio$0689390 712 02$aSpringerLink (Online service) 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910970110903321 996 $aIntellectual history of the caribbean$91373579 997 $aUNINA