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  1. Theorizing a colonial Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary
    Sugar and Obeah
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Routledge, London

    Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, Hauptabteilung
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  2. Theorizing a colonial Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary
    sugar and Obeah
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Routledge, New York

    This book develops a theory of a Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary by exploring the ways two colonial texts represent the consciousnesses of Amerindians, Africans, and Europeans at two crucial points marking respectively the origins and demise of... mehr

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    This book develops a theory of a Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary by exploring the ways two colonial texts represent the consciousnesses of Amerindians, Africans, and Europeans at two crucial points marking respectively the origins and demise of slavocratic systems in the West Indies. Focusing on Richard Ligon's History of Barbados (1657) and Matthew 'Monk' Lewis' Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834), the study identifies specific myths and belief systems surrounding sugar and obeah as each of these came to stand for concepts of order and counterorder, and to figure the material and symbolic

     

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1283042177; 0415876893; 9781136853999; 9781283042178; 9780415876896
    Schriftenreihe: Routledge research in Atlantic studies ; 5
    Schlagworte: Caribbean literature; Literature and myth; Literature and history; Obeah (Cult); West Indian literature (English)
    Weitere Schlagworte: Lewis, M. G (1775-1818); Ligon, Richard
    Umfang: Online-Ressource (x, 194 p), ill
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Imaginary as a Poetics of Theory and Crosscultural Consciousness; 2 Sugar and the Ocean: Mythic Origins and Imaginary Power; 3 Ligon: Atlantic Crossroads, Imaginary Prospects in the History; 4 Ligon: Sugar and the Myth of Cure; 5 Lewis: The Imaginary of Counterorders in the Journal; 6 Lewis: Obeah and the Myth of Disease; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index;