Title: Perspectives on the 'other America' : comparative approaches to Caribbean and Latin American culture /
Authors: Niblett, Michael.; Oloff, Kerstin.
Publisher: Rodopi,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Regionalism Caribbean Area.; Regionalism in literature.; Kultur.; Literatur.; Regionale Identität.; Civilization; Literature; Regionalism; Caribbean Area Civilization.; Latin America Civilization.; Karibik.; Caribbean Area; Latin America
Contents: Introduction : Regionalism and the Caribbean / Michael Niblett and Kerstin Oloff -- Expanding the Caribbean / Peter Hulme -- The arc of the "other America" : landscape, nature, and region in Eric Walrond's Tropic death / Michael Niblett -- 'American' landscapes and erasures : Frederic Church's The vale of St. Thomas and the recovery of history in landscape painting / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- Other Americas, other genderings : postcolonial heroines and rhizomatic geographies in Patrick Chamoiseau's Biblique des derniers gestes / Heidi Bojsen -- "No storm to blow me over?" Mapping same-sex sexuality in the other Americas / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley -- "Más allá de la información" : region, culture and the imagination : an interview / Mayra Santos-Febres -- The twilight zone : Puerto Rico's cultural identity in the work of José Luis González / Néstor E. Rodríguez -- The ethics of postcolonial healing in Astrid Roemer's trilogy of Suriname / Patricia Krus -- Cross-cultural poetics : debating the place of Afro-Mexican poetry in the context of Caribbean literary and cultural aesthetics / Paulette Ramsay -- Exile, Caribbean literature, and the world republic of letters / Theo D'haen -- Wilson Harris, regionalism and postcolonial studies / Kerstin D. Oloff -- Region, location and aesthetics : an interview / Lawrence Scott.