An Intellectual History of the Caribbean (New Directions in Latino American Culture)

This 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.

First sentence: The narrator of Agatha Christie's thriller A Caribbean Mystery refers to the West Indian setting of the story as somewhere where everything stayed "the same every daynever anything happening" (1964:12).

Year

2005

Language

English

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Editions

2

Pages

304

ISBN

9781403966773

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