The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context / Edition 1

by J. Michael Dash

Overview

A wide-ranging work that explores two centuries of Caribbean literature from a comparative perspective. While haunted by the need to establish cultural difference and authenticity, Caribbean thought is inherently modernist in its recognition of the interplay between cultures, brought about by centuries of contact, domination, and consent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813917641
Publisher:	University of Virginia Press
Publication date:	05/29/1998
Series:	New World Studies Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	197
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.25(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

J. Michael Dash is Professor of Francophone Literature and Chairman of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of the West Indies. He has authored five previous books and translated Edouard Glissant's Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays.

What People are Saying About This

"In this thoroughly researched new book, J. Michael Dash examines the question of self-definition in the Caribbean. Beginning in nineteenth-century Haiti and ending in today's Martinique, Dash analyzes he achievements and shortcomings of some of the most important literary efforts in their attempts to come to terms with the region's characteristics- plantation origins, unfinished modernity, sociocultural heterogeneity, liminality, and archipelagic instability." -- Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Amherst College

Antonio Benitez-Rojo

In this thoroughly researched new book, J. Michael Dash examines the question of self-definition in the Caribbean. Beginning in nineteenth-century Haiti and ending in today's Martinique, Dash analyzes he achievements and shortcomings of some of the most important literary efforts in their attempts to come to terms with the region's characteristics- plantation origins, unfinished modernity, sociocultural heterogeneity, liminality, and archipelagic instability.

Editorial Reviews

In this thoroughly researched new book, J. Michael Dash examines the question of self-definition in the Caribbean. Beginning in nineteenth-century Haiti and ending in today's Martinique, Dash analyzes he achievements and shortcomings of some of the most important literary efforts in their attempts to come to terms with the region's characteristics- plantation origins, unfinished modernity, sociocultural heterogeneity, liminality, and archipelagic instability.

Antonio Benitez-Rojo

[Dash] offers an important new historical panorama of Caribbean literature from the 1930s to today. -- Roman de la Campa

Roman De La Campa

"In this thoroughly researched new book, J. Michael Dash examines the question of self-definition in the Caribbean. Beginning in nineteenth-century Haiti and ending in today's Martinique, Dash analyzes he achievements and shortcomings of some of the most important literary efforts in their attempts to come to terms with the region's characteristics- plantation origins, unfinished modernity, sociocultural heterogeneity, liminality, and archipelagic instability. "—Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Amherst College

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