The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective Benitez-Rojo Antonio
The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective Benitez-Rojo Antonio In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short…
Specifikacia The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective Benitez-Rojo Antonio
The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective Benitez-Rojo Antonio
In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. As he did in the first edition, Benitez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture.
Benitez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean--the area's His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena.