Caribbean literature and the environment : between nature and culture /
DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M.,1967-
Gosson, Renée K.
Handley, George B.,1964-
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-290) and index.
Sugar and the environment in Cuba / Antonio Benítez-Rojo -- Isla incognita / Derek Walcott -- Shaping the environment : sugar plantation, or life after identured labor / Cyril Dabydeen -- Coffee and colonialism in Julia Alvarez's A cafecito story / Trenton Hickman -- Subjection and resistance in the transformation of Guyana's mytho-colonial landscape / Shona N. Jackson -- A long bilingual conversation concerning paradise lost : landscapes in Haitian art / LeGrace Benson -- "Caribbean genesis" : language, gardens, worlds (Jamaica Kincaid, Derek Walcott, Édouard Glissant) / Jana Evans Braziel -- "The argument of the outboard motor" : an interview with Derek Walcott / George B. Handley -- Cultural and environmental assimilation in Martinique : an interview with Raphaël Confiant / Renée K. Gosson -- Moving the Caribbean landscape : Cereus blooms at night as a re-imagination of the Caribbean environment / Isabel Hoving -- "Rosebud is my mama, stanfaste is my papa" : hybrid landscapes and sexualities in Surinamese oral literature / Natasha Tinsley -- "He of the trees" : nature, environment, and Creole religiosities in Caribbean literature / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- "Man fitting the landscape" : nature, culture, and colonialism / Helen Tiffin -- Flashbacks of an orchid : rhizomatic narration in Patrick Chamoiseau's Biblique des derniers gestes / Heidi Bojsen -- Landscapes, narratives, and tropical nature : Creole modernity in Suriname / Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger -- The uses of landscape : ecocriticism and Martinican cultural theory / Eric Prieto -- From living nature to borderless culture in Wilson Harris's work / Hena Maes-Jelinek -- Epilogue : Theatre of the arts / Wilson Harris.
Caribbean literature
Ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.