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Strachan, Ian Gregory.

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Paradise and Plantation: The economy of Caribbean discourse (Christopher Columbus, Derek Walcott, St. Lucia, Daniel Defoe, Bahamas).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Paradise and Plantation: The economy of Caribbean discourse (Christopher Columbus, Derek Walcott, St. Lucia, Daniel Defoe, Bahamas)./
Author:	Strachan, Ian Gregory.
Description:	429 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Daniel Bivona.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-01A.
Subject:	Literature, Caribbean. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9615131

Paradise and Plantation: The economy of Caribbean discourse (Christopher Columbus, Derek Walcott, St. Lucia, Daniel Defoe, Bahamas).
Strachan, Ian Gregory.

Paradise and Plantation: The economy of Caribbean discourse (Christopher Columbus, Derek Walcott, St. Lucia, Daniel Defoe, Bahamas). - 429 p.

Adviser: Daniel Bivona.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1995.

The first concern of this study is to trace the evolution of the idea of the Caribbean as Paradise and to identify those circumstances which have made the region ideal for such a conception. The second is to examine the relationship between the representation of the Caribbean as a Paradise and the material reality of the Plantation. An investigation into the ways "Paradise" and "Plantation" rebuff/reinforce each other on the level of metaphor will also be carried out. Third, the dissertation seeks to explain how the heritage of Caribbean paradise discourse affects the economic, social and cultural life of Caribbeans today. More specifically, it considers the dynamics of tourism, its status as an extension of the plantation system, and its role as a propagator and exploiter of the paradise myth. Finally, this dissertation strives to identify an economy of Caribbean discourse which is shaped by the controlling metaphors "Paradise" and "Plantation", and the ideologies (colonizing and decolonizing) which have deployed them for the past five hundred years. The objective is to prove that Caribbean discourse, whether generated by colonizer or colonized, has been affected by notions of the region's value, the value of its people.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019116
Literature, Caribbean.

Paradise and Plantation: The economy of Caribbean discourse (Christopher Columbus, Derek Walcott, St. Lucia, Daniel Defoe, Bahamas).
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520 $a The first concern of this study is to trace the evolution of the idea of the Caribbean as Paradise and to identify those circumstances which have made the region ideal for such a conception. The second is to examine the relationship between the representation of the Caribbean as a Paradise and the material reality of the Plantation. An investigation into the ways "Paradise" and "Plantation" rebuff/reinforce each other on the level of metaphor will also be carried out. Third, the dissertation seeks to explain how the heritage of Caribbean paradise discourse affects the economic, social and cultural life of Caribbeans today. More specifically, it considers the dynamics of tourism, its status as an extension of the plantation system, and its role as a propagator and exploiter of the paradise myth. Finally, this dissertation strives to identify an economy of Caribbean discourse which is shaped by the controlling metaphors "Paradise" and "Plantation", and the ideologies (colonizing and decolonizing) which have deployed them for the past five hundred years. The objective is to prove that Caribbean discourse, whether generated by colonizer or colonized, has been affected by notions of the region's value, the value of its people.
520 $a Chapter One, "Paradise and Imperialism," traces the evolution of the "Caribbean is paradise" metaphor between the fifteenth and late eighteenth centuries, using texts like Columbus' Journal and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe as signposts. Chapter Two, "Emancipation and the Caribbean Wasteland," analyzes the shifts in Caribbean discourse which took place after Emancipation, when the region was no longer figured as a paradise but as a wasteland of unproductiveness, and at the turn of the century, when this unproductiveness transformed the region into a paradise once again. Chapter Three, " Paradise is Plantation" uses the Bahamian case as an example of the role tourism (the modern paradise business) plays throughout the post-independent Caribbean. Chapter Four, "Another Eden," examines the native response to the imperialist discourse of paradise and plantation via the theory and practice of its leading poet and playwright, Derek Walcott.
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