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Golden lands, magic cities: (Trans)...

Winks, Christopher Leland.

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Golden lands, magic cities: (Trans)figurations of utopia in Caribbean literature.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Golden lands, magic cities: (Trans)figurations of utopia in Caribbean literature./
作者:	Winks, Christopher Leland.
面頁冊數:	430 p.
附註:	Adviser: Kamau Brathwaite.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-08A.
標題:	Literature, Caribbean. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3062853
ISBN:	0493809732

Golden lands, magic cities: (Trans)figurations of utopia in Caribbean literature.
Winks, Christopher Leland.

Golden lands, magic cities: (Trans)figurations of utopia in Caribbean literature. - 430 p.

Adviser: Kamau Brathwaite.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2002.

This dissertation, a project of thematic literary criticism, explores a recurring topos in the diverse literatures of the Caribbean: the magic or invisible city, both a metaphorical site wherein the diverse strands in the Caribbean counterpoint may potentially be apprehended, and a transformative space of hope. Its major points of creative tension are the dystopic Plantation system created by European colonizers and the sustaining, resistance-inspiring memories of ideal community that resided in the spiritual imaginary of the Plantation-enslaved Africans and their descendants.

ISBN: 0493809732Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019116
Literature, Caribbean.

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