Surveying the American Tropics - A Literary Geography from New York to Rio (Hardcover, New)

'American Tropics' refers to a kind of extended Caribbean, an area that includes the southern USA, the Atlantic littoral of Central America, the Caribbean islands, and northern South America. European colonial powers fought intensively here against indigenous populations and against each other for control of land and resources. The regions in the American Tropics share a history in which the dominant fact is the arrival of millions of white Europeans and black Africans; share an environment that is tropical or sub-tropical; and share a socio-economic model (the plantation), whose effects lasted at least well into the twentieth century.The imaginative space of the American Tropics therefore offers a differently centred literary history from those conventionally produced as US, Caribbean, or Latin American literature. This important collection brings together essays by distinguished scholars, including the late Neil Whitehead, Richard Price, Sally Price, and Susan Gillman, that engage with the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics and that represent the rich diversity of the writing produced within this geographical area.

General

Imprint:	Liverpool University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography, 2
Release date:	July 2013
First published:	2013
Editors:	Maria Cristina Fumagalli • Peter Hulme • Owen Robinson • Lesley Wylie
Dimensions:	239 x 163 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	365
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-84631-890-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	1-84631-890-4
Barcode:	9781846318900

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