The Repeating Island: The Caribbean And The Postmodern Perspective (Postcontemporary Interventions),Used

The Repeating Island: The Caribbean And The Postmodern Perspective (Postcontemporary Interventions),Used

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In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio BentezRojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This cowinner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, BentezRojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. BentezRojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbeanthe areas discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politicsthere emerges an island of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. BentezRojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guilln, Carpentier, Garca Mrquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodrguez Juli.

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