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Pathologies of Paradise: Caribbean Detours (New World Studies)

Supriya M. Nair

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Pathologies of Paradise presents the rich complexity of
anglophone Caribbean literature from pluralistic perspectives that contest the reduction of the
region to Edenic or infernal stereotypes. But rather than reiterate the familiar critiques of these
stereotypes, Supriya Nair draws on the trope of the detour to plumb the depths of anti-paradise
discourse, showing how the Caribbean has survived its history of colonization and slavery. In her
reading of authors such as Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, V. S. Naipaul, Zadie Smith, Junot
Díaz, and Pauline Melville, among others, she examines dominant symbols and events that shape
the literature and history of postslavery and postcolonial societies: the garden and empire,
individual and national trauma, murder and massacre, contagion and healing, grotesque humor and the
carnivalesque. In ranging across multiple contexts, generations, and genres, the book maps a
syncretic and flexible approach to Caribbean literature that demonstrates the supple literary
cartographies of New World identities.

Language: English

Pages: 248

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: September 24, 2013

Pathologies of Paradise: Caribbean Detours (New World Studies)

Supriya M. Nair

0/5 ( ratings)

Pathologies of Paradise presents the rich complexity of
anglophone Caribbean literature from pluralistic perspectives that contest the reduction of the
region to Edenic or infernal stereotypes. But rather than reiterate the familiar critiques of these
stereotypes, Supriya Nair draws on the trope of the detour to plumb the depths of anti-paradise
discourse, showing how the Caribbean has survived its history of colonization and slavery. In her
reading of authors such as Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, V. S. Naipaul, Zadie Smith, Junot
Díaz, and Pauline Melville, among others, she examines dominant symbols and events that shape
the literature and history of postslavery and postcolonial societies: the garden and empire,
individual and national trauma, murder and massacre, contagion and healing, grotesque humor and the
carnivalesque. In ranging across multiple contexts, generations, and genres, the book maps a
syncretic and flexible approach to Caribbean literature that demonstrates the supple literary
cartographies of New World identities.

Language: English

Pages: 248

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: September 24, 2013

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