Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture

by George B. Handley

Perhaps there is no other region in the world that has been more radically altered in terms of human and botanic migration, transplantation, and settlement than the Caribbean. Theorists such as Edouard Glissant argue that the dialectic between Caribbean "nature" and "culture," engendered by this unique and troubled history, has not heretofore been brought into productive relation. Caribbean Literature and the Environment redresses this omission...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813923727
• ISBN13: 9780813923727
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher