An Intellectual History of the Caribbean [[electronic resource] /] / by Silvio Torres-Saillant
| An Intellectual History of the Caribbean [[electronic resource] /] / by Silvio Torres-Saillant |
| Autore | Torres-Saillant Silvio |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina | 972.90072 |
| Collana | New Concepts in Latino American Cultures |
| Soggetto topico |
Culture - Study and teaching
Ethnology - Latin America Intellectual life - History Cultural and Media Studies Latin American Culture History of the Americas North American Literature Intellectual Studies |
| ISBN |
1-281-36998-5
9786611369989 1-4039-8336-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451096503321 |
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| New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006 | ||
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An Intellectual History of the Caribbean [[electronic resource] /] / by Silvio Torres-Saillant
| An Intellectual History of the Caribbean [[electronic resource] /] / by Silvio Torres-Saillant |
| Autore | Torres-Saillant Silvio |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina | 972.90072 |
| Collana | New Concepts in Latino American Cultures |
| Soggetto topico |
Culture - Study and teaching
Ethnology - Latin America Intellectual life - History Cultural and Media Studies Latin American Culture History of the Americas North American Literature Intellectual Studies |
| ISBN |
1-281-36998-5
9786611369989 1-4039-8336-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784124703321 |
Torres-Saillant Silvio
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| New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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An intellectual history of the Caribbean / / Silvio Torres-Saillant
| An intellectual history of the Caribbean / / Silvio Torres-Saillant |
| Autore | Torres-Saillant Silvio |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y., : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina | 972.90072 |
| Collana | New directions in Latino American cultures |
| ISBN |
9786611369989
9781281369987 1281369985 9781403983367 1403983364 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- 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.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910970110903321 |
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| New York, N.Y., : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 | ||
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