Elusive Origins : The Enlightenment in the Modern Caribbean Historical Imagination.
Miller, Paul B.
Elusive Origins : The Enlightenment in the Modern Caribbean Historical Imagination. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (245 pages) - New World Studies . - New World Studies .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Structure of the Enlightenment -- Part I. Inaugurating the Modern Caribbean Historical Imagination -- 1 Carpentier and the Temporalities of Mutual Exclusion -- 2 Enlightened Hesitations: C. L. R. James, Toussaint L'Ouverture, and the Black Masses -- Part II. Chauvet, Condé, and the Postmodern Turn in the Caribbean Historical Imagination -- 3 Conflicted Epiphanies: Politicized Aesthetics in Marie Chauvet's Dance on the Volcano -- 4 Alliances and Enmities in Maryse Condé's Historical Imagination -- Part III. The Center and the Periphery Cannot Hold -- 5 Cuban Cogito: Reinaldo Arenas and the Negative Historical Imagination -- 6 Heightened Perceptions: Rodríguez Juliá and the Mechanics of Temporality -- Conclusions: Before and After, Here and There -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Furthermore, the inclusion of Francophone and Anglophone writers in addition to those from the Hispanic Caribbean opens up the volume geographically, linguistically, and nationally, expanding its contribution to a nonessentialist understanding of the Caribbean in a Latin American, Atlantic, and global context.
9780813931296
Enlightenment - Caribbean Area.
Electronic books.
PN849.C3 -- M56 2010eb
810.9/9729
Elusive Origins : The Enlightenment in the Modern Caribbean Historical Imagination. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (245 pages) - New World Studies . - New World Studies .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Structure of the Enlightenment -- Part I. Inaugurating the Modern Caribbean Historical Imagination -- 1 Carpentier and the Temporalities of Mutual Exclusion -- 2 Enlightened Hesitations: C. L. R. James, Toussaint L'Ouverture, and the Black Masses -- Part II. Chauvet, Condé, and the Postmodern Turn in the Caribbean Historical Imagination -- 3 Conflicted Epiphanies: Politicized Aesthetics in Marie Chauvet's Dance on the Volcano -- 4 Alliances and Enmities in Maryse Condé's Historical Imagination -- Part III. The Center and the Periphery Cannot Hold -- 5 Cuban Cogito: Reinaldo Arenas and the Negative Historical Imagination -- 6 Heightened Perceptions: Rodríguez Juliá and the Mechanics of Temporality -- Conclusions: Before and After, Here and There -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Furthermore, the inclusion of Francophone and Anglophone writers in addition to those from the Hispanic Caribbean opens up the volume geographically, linguistically, and nationally, expanding its contribution to a nonessentialist understanding of the Caribbean in a Latin American, Atlantic, and global context.
9780813931296
Enlightenment - Caribbean Area.
Electronic books.
PN849.C3 -- M56 2010eb
810.9/9729