Surveying the American tropics a literary geography from New York to Rio / edited by Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Peter Hulme, Owen Robinson, and Lesley Wylie.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013. |
| Description | x, 365 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Fumagalli, Maria Cristina. |
| Other author/creator | Hulme, Peter. |
| Other author/creator | Robinson, Owen. |
| Other author/creator | Wylie, Lesley. |
| Series | American tropics ; 2 American tropics ; 2. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | A tree grows in Bajan Brooklyn : writing Caribbean New York / Martha Jane Nadell -- Reading the novum world : the literary geography of science fiction in Junot Diaz's The brief wonderful life of Oscar Wao / María del Pilar Blanco -- Inventing tropicality : writing fever, writing trauma in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead and Gardens in the dunes / Hsinya Huang -- Imperial archaeology : the American isthmus as contested scientific contact zone / Gesa Mackenthun -- Space age tropics / Mimi Sheller -- Black Jacobins and new world Mediterraneans / Susan Gillman -- The Oloffson / Alasdair Pettinger -- Dark thresholds in Trinidad : regarding the colonial house / Jak Peake -- Micronations of the Caribbean / Russell McDougall -- Golden kings, cocaine lords, and the madness of El Dorado : Guayana as native and colonial imaginary / Neil L. Whitehead -- Suriname literary geography : the changing same / Richard Price and Sally Price -- The art of observation : race and landscape in A journey in Brazil / Nina Gerassi-Navarro. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013387487 |
| ISBN | 9781846318900 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1846318904 (hbk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |