The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

Benitez-Rojo, Antonio

ISBN 10: 0822318652 / ISBN 13: 9780822318651

Published by Duke University Press, 1997

This book is in good condition. The cover has minor creases or bends. The binding is tight and pages are intact. Some pages may have writing or highlighting. Seller Inventory # BRV.0822318652.G

Synopsis:

In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner 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, Benítez-Rojo 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. Benítez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean—the area’s discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics—there emerges an “island” of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Benítez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillén, Carpentier, García Márquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodríguez Juliá.

About the Author:

Antonio Benítez-Rojo is the Thomas B. Walton, Jr., Memorial Professor at Amherst College.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the ...
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good
Edition: 2nd Edition