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Symbolic cities in Caribbean literature

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Symbolic cities in Caribbean literatureChristopher Winks.
Author:	Winks, Christopher.
Published:	New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan,2009.
Description:	xviii, 194 p. ;22 cm.
Subject:	Caribbean literatureHistory and criticism.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230621572

Symbolic cities in Caribbean literature
Winks, Christopher.

Symbolic cities in Caribbean literature[electronic resource] /Christopher Winks. - 1st ed. - New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - xviii, 194 p. ;22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-188) and index.

Thalassal histories -- Building the magic city -- Containing the ancestral house : the literary legacies of marronage -- Two, three, many Havanas : ventures into a repeating city -- City of disor city of renewal?

This incisive comparative study analyzes Caribbean literary representations of magic and invisible cities in new and exciting ways. In a comprehensive approach, Winks' study ranges from literary portraits of ElDorado, to the remembered holy cities in African-based New World religions, to the secret Havanas of modern Cuban literature. Grounded in thevisionary poetics of Caribbean creative writers/theorists, this book explores various cross-lingual and cross-cultural strands in the Caribbean counterpoint, with particular attention to the creative exploration and reworking of the notion ofthe city as both instituted social spaceand imaginary community. It also deals with the treatment of the utopian dimension as a space of hope against heritages of enslavement, colonial oppression, and postcolonial anomie. The study will be of interest to scholars of comparative literature, Caribbean and Latin American studies, inter-American poetics, and the African diasporas.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230621572Subjects--Topical Terms:

178540
Caribbean literature
--History and criticism.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN849.C3 / W56 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 809/.93358209732

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