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Elusive Origins: The Enlightenment in the Modern Caribbean Historical Imagination (New World Studies)
Paul B. Miller
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Description for Elusive Origins: The Enlightenment in the Modern Caribbean Historical Imagination (New World Studies)
Paperback. Shows how the modern Caribbean authors deploy their historical imagination in order to assess and re-evaluate the elusive and often conflicted origins of their own modernity like the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution in the Caribbean. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Although the questions of modernity and postmodernity are debated as frequently in the Caribbean as in other cultural zones, the Enlightenment - generally considered the origin of European modernity - is rarely discussed as such in the Caribbean context. Paul B. Miller constellates modern Caribbean writers of varying national and linguistic traditions whose common thread is their representation of the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution in the Caribbean. In a comparative reading of such writers as Alejo Carpentier (Cuba), C. L. R. James (Trinidad), Marie Chauvet (Haiti), Maryse Conde (Cuadeloupe), Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), and Edgardo Rodriguez Julia (Puerto Rico), ... Read more
Although the questions of modernity and postmodernity are debated as frequently in the Caribbean as in other cultural zones, the Enlightenment - generally considered the origin of European modernity - is rarely discussed as such in the Caribbean context. Paul B. Miller constellates modern Caribbean writers of varying national and linguistic traditions whose common thread is their representation of the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution in the Caribbean. In a comparative reading of such writers as Alejo Carpentier (Cuba), C. L. R. James (Trinidad), Marie Chauvet (Haiti), Maryse Conde (Cuadeloupe), Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), and Edgardo Rodriguez Julia (Puerto Rico), ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
New World Studies
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813929804
SKU
V9780813929804
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About Paul B. Miller
Paul B. Miller is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University.
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