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Title Elusive origins : the Enlightenment in the modern Caribbean historical imagination / Paul B. Miller.
Author Miller, Paul B., 1965- author.
Publisher Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 9 Annexe  Gen Lit E800.C3 MIL  
 In Library  Standard  Library Level 9 Annexe  Gen Lit E800.C3 MIL  
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Description x, 230 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN 9780813929798 cloth : alkaline paper
0813929792 cloth : alkaline paper
9780813929804 paperback : alkaline paper
0813929806 paperback : alkaline paper
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: the structure of the Enlightenment -- Carpentier and the temporalities of mutual exclusion -- Enlightened hesitations: C.L.R. James, Toussaint L'Ouverture, and the black masses -- Conflicted epiphanies: politicized aesthetics in Marie Chauvet's Dance on the volcano -- Alliances and enmities in Maryse Condé's historical imagination -- Cuban cogito: Reinaldo Arenas and the negative historical imagination -- Heightened perceptions: Rodríguez Juliá and the mechanics of temporality -- Conclusions: before and after, here and there.
Series New World studies.
Library Class Gen Lit E800.C3
Subject Caribbean literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
History in literature.
Literature and history -- Caribbean Area.
Caribbean Area -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Caribbean Area -- In literature.
Enlightenment -- Caribbean Area.
Modernism (Literature) -- Caribbean Area.

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