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Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation - New World Studies Belinda Edmondson
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Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation - New World Studies
Belinda Edmondson
Examines the ways in which the ""romance"" trope is employed within contemporary Caribbean popular culture and literature to idealize the newly independent postcolonial societies of the region. These essays situate this discourse of idealization within its historical and cultural contexts.
Commendation Quotes:"This collection offers perhaps the first systematic critique -- and deconstruction -- of some of the central categories in postcolonial theory in general and Caribbean cultural and literary studies in particular. The contributors, by writing on English, French, and Spanish speaking Caribbean countries, succeed in overcoming one of the major handles in the study of the literatures and cultures of the region -- the barriers set up by colonial languages. This book brings a fresh perspective to Caribbean studies and takes its popular culture beyond tourist art." -- Simon Gikandi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Contributor Bio: Edmondson, Belinda Belinda Edmondson is Associate Professor of English and African/African-American Studies at Rutgers University at Newark.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 29, 1999 |
| ISBN13 | 9780813918228 |
| Publishers | University of Virginia Press |
| Genre | Cultural Region > Caribbean & West Indies |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 17 mm · 376 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Edmondson, Belinda |
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