Surveying the American tropics a literary geography from New York to Rio / edited by Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Peter Hulme, Owen Robinson, and Lesley Wylie.

Other author/creatorFumagalli, Maria Cristina.
Other author/creatorHulme, Peter.
Other author/creatorRobinson, Owen.
Other author/creatorWylie, Lesley.
SeriesAmerican 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013387487
ISBN9781846318900 (hbk.)
ISBN1846318904 (hbk.)

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