The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and The Postmodern, Benitez-Rojo Antonio, 2e

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Book Title
The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspectiv
Educational Level
Adult & Further Education
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No
Level
Beginner, Intermediate
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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1
ISBN
9780822318651
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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822318652
ISBN-13
9780822318651
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1069832

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
376 Pages
Publication Name
Repeating Island : the Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective
Language
English
Subject
Caribbean & Latin American, Semiotics & Theory, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Social Science
Author
Antonio Benitez-Rojo
Series
Post-Contemporary Interventions Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
96-014685
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
809/.89729
Table Of Content
Contents Acknowledgments to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Introduction: the repeating island From Columbus's machine to the sugar-making machine From the apocalypse to chaos From rhythm to polyrhythm From literature to carnival PART 1 SOCIETY 1 From the plantation to the Plantation Hispaniola: the first plantations The emergence of creole culture Contraband, repression, and consequences The island creole and the mainland creole The Plantation and the Africanization of culture The Plantation: Sociocultural regularities PART 2 THE WRITER 2 Bartolomé de Las Casas: between fiction and the inferno Las Casas: Historian or fabulist? Las Casas and slavery The plague of ants and the uncanny The piedra solimán: Sugar, genitalia, writing Derivations from the "Las Casas case" 3 Nicolás Guillén: sugar mill and poetry From Los ingenios to La zafra From the libido to the superego The Communist poet The controversial poet The subversive poet The philosophical poet 4 Fernando Ortiz: the Caribbean and postmodernity The Contrapunteo as a postmodern text Between voodoo and ideology A danceable language Knowledge in flight 5 Carpentier and Harris: explorers of El Dorado The voyage there The Path of Words The trip to El Dorado Concerning the three voyagers PART 3 THE BOOK 6 Los pañamanes, or the memory of the skin The puzzle's next-to-last piece Displacement toward myth The "other" Caribbean city Violence, folklore, and the Caribbean novel 7 Viaje a la semilla, or the text as spectacle A canon called the crab We open the door to the enchanted house We close the door to the enchanted house All quiet on the western front Noise Directions for reading the black hole 8 Niño Avilés, or history's libido Nueva Venecia, an onion Of palenques and cimarrones The temptations of Fray Agustín PART 4 THE PARADOX 9 Naming the Father, naming the Mother The Father's ghost The Mother's song The unfinished matricide 10 Private reflections on García Márquez's Eréndira The captive maiden The pregnant woman The Caribbean Persephone The carnivalesque whore 11 Carnival The system's deepest layer: Guillén's "Sensemayá" The intermediate layer: Walcott's Drums and Colours The outer layer: Carpentier's Concierto barroco Carnival at last Epilogue Notes Index
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., 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., In this second edition of The Repeating Island , Antonio Ben tez-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, Ben tez-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. Ben tez-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. Ben tez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guill n, Carpentier, Garc a M rquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodr guez Juli .
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