The Caribbean novel since 1945 : cultural practice, form, and the nation-state / Michael Niblett

Author: Niblett, Michael
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2012]
Copyright Date: ©2012
Physical Description: vii, 260 pages ; 24 cm.

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Series

Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)

Contents

Introduction: Cultural practice, creolization, and the nation-state -- The promise of national independence: Modernity, allegory, and sacrifice -- "The people living a life every man for himself": Problems in the postindependence body (politic) -- Literary deliriums: Cultural expression, commodity fetishism and the search for community -- From breakdown to rebirth: Ritual reconfigurations of the Nation-state -- "No pain like this body": Race, gender, and sexuality in a time of crisis.

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ISBN

9781617032479 (cloth : alk. paper)
1617032476 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Acquisition

UP-PAT copy: A gift made in honor of Joseph V. Paterno by James C. and Sally A. Dawson; 2011.

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