- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 365 pages) : illustrations.
- Series Statement
- American tropics ; 2
- Uniform Title
- Surveying the American tropics (Online)
- American tropics ; 2.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- A tree grows in Bajan Brooklyn : writing Caribbean New York / Martha Jane Nadell -- Reading the novum world : the literary geography of science fiction in Junot Diaz's The brief wonderful life of Oscar Wao / María del Pilar Blanco -- Inventing tropicality : writing fever, writing trauma in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead and Gardens in the dunes / Hsinya Huang -- Imperial archaeology : the American isthmus as contested scientific contact zone / Gesa Mackenthun -- Space age tropics / Mimi Sheller -- Black Jacobins and new world Mediterraneans / Susan Gillman -- The Oloffson / Alasdair Pettinger -- Dark thresholds in Trinidad : regarding the colonial house / Jak Peake -- Micronations of the Caribbean / Russell McDougall -- Golden kings, cocaine lords, and the madness of El Dorado : Guayana as native and colonial imaginary / Neil L. Whitehead -- Suriname literary geography : the changing same / Richard Price and Sally Price -- The art of observation : race and landscape in A journey in Brazil / Nina Gerassi-Navarro.
- LCCN
- 2013387487
- OCLC
- ssj0001189925
- Title
Surveying the American tropics [electronic resource] : a literary geography from New York to Rio / edited by Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Peter Hulme, Owen Robinson, and Lesley Wylie.
- Imprint
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
- Series
American tropics ; 2
American tropics ; 2.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Fumagalli, Maria Cristina.
Hulme, Peter.
Robinson, Owen.
Wylie, Lesley.