The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective PDF
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• THE REPEATING ISLAND • POST- CONTEMPORARY INTERVENTIONS SeriesEditors: StanleyFish andFredricJameson • THE REPEATING ISLA ND • TheCaribbean andthePostmodern Perspective SecondEdition • ANTONIO BENITEz-RoTa TranslatedbyJamesMaraniss • Duke UniversityPress DurhamandLondon1996 2ndprinting,2001 © 1996DukeUniversityPress Allrightsreserved Originallypublished1992.SecondEdition1996. PrintedintheUnitedStatesof Americaonacid-freepaper00 Permissionstoreprintappearonpage351 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-Publication Dataappearonthelast printedpageofthisbook. ToFernando Ortiz) thedistantmaster)on thehalf-centuryofhis CONTRAPUNTEO • Contents AcknowledgmentstotheSecondEdition xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: therepeatingisland I FromColumbus'smachinetothesugar-makingmachine 5 Fromthe apocalypsetochaos 10 Fromrhythmto polyrhythm 16 Fromliteratureto carnival 22 PA RT SOCIETY 1 FromtheplantationtothePlantation 33 Hispaniola: thefirst plantations 39 Theemergenceofcreoleculture 43 Contraband, repression, andconsequences 47 Theislandcreoleandthemainlandcreole 55 ThePlantationandtheAfricanizationofculture 61 ThePlantation: Socioculturalregularities 72 PAR T 2 THE WRITER 2 BartolomedeLasCasas: betweenfiction andtheinferno 85 LasCasas: Historianorfabulist? 89 LasCasasandslavery 94 Contents Vlll Theplagueofantsandtheuncanny 100 Thepiedrasoliman: Sugar,genitalia,writing 104 Derivationsfrom the"LasCasascase" 108 3 NicoltisGuillen:sugarmillandpoetry 112 FromLosingeniostoLazafra 115 Fromthelibidotothesuperego 121 TheCommunistpoet 130 Thecontroversialpoet 133 Thesubversivepoet 139 Thephilosophicalpoet 145 4 Fernando Ortiz: theCaribbeanandpostmodernity ISO TheContrapunteo asapostmoderntext 152 Betweenvoodooandideology 159 Adanceablelanguage 167 Knowledgeinflight 171 5 CarpentierandHarris: explorersofElDorado 177 Thevoyagethere 179 ThePathofWords 183 ThetriptoElDorado 186 Concerningthethreevoyagers 192 PAR T 3 THE BOOK 6 Lospaiiamanes)orthememoryoftheskin 199 Thepuzzle'snext-to-lastpiece 201 Displacementtowardmyth 205 The"other"Caribbeancity 211 Violence,folklore, andtheCaribbeannovel 214 7 ViajealasemiIla)orthetextasspectacle 218 Acanoncalledthecrab 221 Weopenthedoortotheenchantedhouse 225 Weclosethedoortotheenchantedhouse 228 Allquietonthewesternfront 232 Noise 234 Directionsforreadingtheblackhole 239 Contents ix 8 NinoAviles)orhistoryJslibido 242 NuevaVenecia) anonion 246 Ofpalenquesandcimarrones 249 ThetemptationsofFrayAgustin 256 PAR T 4 THE PARADOX 9 NamingtheFather) namingtheMother 265 TheFather'sghost 267 TheMother'ssong 270 Theunfinishedmatricide 273 10 PrivatereflectionsonGarciaMdrquezJsErendira 276 Thecaptivemaiden 279 Thepregnantwoman 282 TheCaribbeanPersephone 286 Thecarnivalesquewhore 289 11 Carnival 294 Thesystem'sdeepestlayer: Guillen's"Sensemaya" 296 Theintermediatelayer: Walcott'sDrumsandColours 300 Theouterlayer: Carpentier'sConciertobarroco 303 Carnivalatlast 306 Epilogue 313 Notes 317 Index 339
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