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Description edit
The first intellectual history of the Caribbean written by a top Caribbean studies scholar, this book examines both writings penned by natives of the region as well as a body of texts interpretive of the region produced by Western authors. Stressing the experiential and cultural particularity... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Trujillo: Add a description of this character.
- Kamau Brathwaite
- Saint Domingue
- Mc Leod
- Toussaint Louverture
- Balaguer
- Elisabeth
- Wilson Harris
- Ariel
- Naipaul
- Caliban
- C. L. R. James
- Froude
- Rojo
- Trollope
- Holland
- Villaverde
- Moya Pons
- Douglass
- Dessalines
- Toni
- Debrot
- Vega
- Martí
- Boyer
- Ovando
- Christophe
- Lampe
- Bosch
- Gilroy
- Aphra Behn
- Antillean
- Duvalier
- Enriquillo
- Nicholls
- Kleist
- Kempen
- Helman
- Delano
- Aida
- Anton De Kom
- Ashcroft
- Spivak
- Sánchez Valverde
Setting & Locations edit
- Caribbean
- United States
- Haiti
- Cuba
- Spain
- Suriname
- Hispaniola
- Europe
- England
- West Indies
- Dominican Republic
- Santo Domingo
- France
- New York City
- Africa
- Arion
- Jamaica
- Puerto Rico
- Antilles
- Britain
- India
- Guadeloupe
- Raleigh
- Benítez
- Guyana
- Latin America
- Colombia
- Xaragua
- Atlantic
- London
- Curaçao
- Columbus
- Belize
- Trinidad
- Washington
- Aruba
- Paramaribo
- Martinique
- Taino
- Port-au-prince
- Cartagena
- Paris
- Barbados
- Sranan Tongo
- Ureña
- Netherlands
- Trefossa
First Sentence edit
The narrator of Agatha Christie's thriller A Caribbean Mystery refers to the West Indian setting of the story as somewhere where everything stayed "the same every day—never anything happening" (1964:12).
Authors & Contributors edit
- Silvio Torres-Saillant (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 972.9
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