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Nelson, John C. M.

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The two Antilles: Power and representation in the West Indies (St. Lucia, Jamaica Kincaid, Antigua, V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, Trinidad and Tobago).

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Title/Author:	The two Antilles: Power and representation in the West Indies (St. Lucia, Jamaica Kincaid, Antigua, V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, Trinidad and Tobago)./
Author:	Nelson, John C. M.
Description:	266 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2204.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-06A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3178099
ISBN:	9780542176562

The two Antilles: Power and representation in the West Indies (St. Lucia, Jamaica Kincaid, Antigua, V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, Trinidad and Tobago).
Nelson, John C. M.

The two Antilles: Power and representation in the West Indies (St. Lucia, Jamaica Kincaid, Antigua, V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, Trinidad and Tobago). - 266 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2204.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2005.

The West Indies have served as a stage for Euro-American political maneuverings for five centuries. A tradition of projecting a distinctly Eurocentric historical narrative upon the region's physical and psychological landscape has existed even before the West's irruption into the New World. This rhetorical strategy is evident in the travel genre, in which foreigners, usually European men, enter the West Indian contact zone to island-hop across the archipelago and record their impressions for a metropolitan audience. The first part of this study examines this genre by probing its nascent influences, tracing its conventions of intertextuality and strains of consistencies, and exploring the inevitable mutations in representation that have occurred over time. Specifically, I follow the discourse's evolution through a variety of texts, from Columbus's missives and journals, through colonial-era travelogues, to contemporary imaginings of the West Indies, as encoded by both the postcolonial traveler---flaneur and the tourism industry's marketing strategies. In the economy of representation that has resulted, these writers have deployed a vast and, at times, contradictory array of stereotypes about an imagined Caribbean. In short, these texts make the exotic knowable to their readership by transforming unknown space into a locale imbued with meaning by the outsider.

ISBN: 9780542176562Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

The two Antilles: Power and representation in the West Indies (St. Lucia, Jamaica Kincaid, Antigua, V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, Trinidad and Tobago).
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