"Every island of the Caribbean is the site of a deep haunting.
Before Columbus, the various indigenous peoples - the Arawaks, the
Caribs, the Tainos - lived in relative harmony with the land, the
sea and each other. Everything changed in 1492: the Amerindian
people quickly were decimated, their presence erased by disease,
wars and overwork. These are the Caribbean's oldest ghosts, almost
invisible in history yet still present in the form of place names,
fragments of language, ancient foods, and pockets of descendants
speckling the islands. . . . "Given the history of the Caribbean,
it is not surprising that much of the region's literature bears a
haunted quality: ghosts are everywhere, be they of the Amerindians,
the African ancestors, the slaves, the planters, the indentured
workers, the victims of dictatorships, foreign invasions and
natural disasters, or the modern exiles. To a large extent,
Caribbean fiction in general is a collection of ghost stories,
tales of haunted people, memories and places. . . . "This book
brings together some of the region's leading contemporary authors,
from the anglophone, francophone and hispanophone Caribbean, as
well as the United States and Canada, and constitutes a unique,
transcultural anthology in which living authors evoke the dead, the
undead and the dying, the ghosts that haunt their experiences and
their works as modern writers of the Caribbean."-From the
introduction by Martin Munro
General
| Imprint: |
University of the West Indies Press
|
| Country of origin: |
Jamaica |
| Release date: |
August 2015 |
| Editors: |
Martin Munro
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
228 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-976-640-551-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
|
| LSN: |
976-640-551-4 |
| Barcode: |
9789766405519 |
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