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Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa's Gaze by Maria Cristina F
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN-13
- 9780813928586
- Book Title
- Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity
- ISBN
- 9780813928586
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity : Returning Medusa's Gaze
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Caribbean & Latin American, Semiotics & Theory
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Series
- New World Studies
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Item Weight
- 8.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 216 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
ISBN-10
0813928583
ISBN-13
9780813928586
eBay Product ID (ePID)
73900351
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Publication Name
Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity : Returning Medusa's Gaze
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Subject
Caribbean & Latin American, Semiotics & Theory
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Series
New World Studies
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2009-016455
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
810/.9
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Synopsis
Taking up the challenge of redefining modernity from a Caribbean perspective instead of assuming that the North Atlantic view of modernity is universal, Maria Cristina Fumagalli shows how the Caribbean's contributions to the modern world not only provide a more accurate account of the past but also have the potential to change the way in which we imagine the future. Fumagalli uses the myth of Medusa's gaze turning people into stone to describe the way North Atlantic modernity freezes its "others" into a state of perpetual backwardness that produces an ethnocentric narrative based on homogenization, vilification, and disempowerment that actively ignores what fails to conform to the story it wants to tell about itself. In analyzing narratives of modernity that originate in the Caribbean, the author explores the region's refusal to succumb to Medusa's spell and highlights its strategies to outstare the Gorgon. Reflecting a diversity of texts, genres, and media, the chapters focus on sixteenth-century engravings and paintings from the Netherlands and Italy, a scientific romance produced at the turn of the twentieth century by the king of the Caribbean island Redonda, contemporary collections of poetry from the anglophone Caribbean, a historical novel by the Guadeloupean writer Maryse Cond , a Latin epic, a Homeric hymn, ancient Egyptian rites, fairy tales, romances from England and Jamaica, a long narrative poem by the Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott, and paintings by artists from Europe and the Americas spanning the seventeenth century to the present. Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity offers an original and creative contribution to what it means to be modern., Taking up the challenge of redefining modernity from a Caribbean perspective instead of assuming that the North Atlantic view of modernity is universal, this book shows how the Caribbean's contributions to the modern world not only provide an accurate account of the past but also have the potential to change the way in which we imagine the future., Taking up the challenge of redefining modernity from a Caribbean perspective instead of assuming that the North Atlantic view of modernity is universal, Maria Cristina Fumagalli shows how the Caribbean's contributions to the modern world not only provide a more accurate account of the past but also have the potential to change the way in which we imagine the future. Fumagalli uses the myth of Medusa's gaze turning people into stone to describe the way North Atlantic modernity freezes its "others" into a state of perpetual backwardness that produces an ethnocentric narrative based on homogenization, vilification, and disempowerment that actively ignores what fails to conform to the story it wants to tell about itself. In analyzing narratives of modernity that originate in the Caribbean, the author explores the region's refusal to succumb to Medusa's spell and highlights its strategies to outstare the Gorgon. Reflecting a diversity of texts, genres, and media, the chapters focus on sixteenth-century engravings and paintings from the Netherlands and Italy, a scientific romance produced at the turn of the twentieth century by the king of the Caribbean island Redonda, contemporary collections of poetry from the anglophone Caribbean, a historical novel by the Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé, a Latin epic, a Homeric hymn, ancient Egyptian rites, fairy tales, romances from England and Jamaica, a long narrative poem by the Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott, and paintings by artists from Europe and the Americas spanning the seventeenth century to the present. Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity offers an original and creative contribution to what it means to be modern.
LC Classification Number
PR9205.05.F86 2009
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