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The Post-Columbus Syndrome F. Viala

The Post-Columbus Syndrome By F. Viala

The Post-Columbus Syndrome by F. Viala

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Reflecting on the relationship between memory, power, and national identity, this book examines the complex reactions of the people of the Caribbean to the 500th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World. Viala analyzes the ways in which Columbus became a reservoir of metaphors to confront anxieties of the present with myths of the past.

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The Post-Columbus Syndrome: Identities, Cultural Nationalism, and Commemorations in the Caribbean by F. Viala

Reflecting on the relationship between memory, power, and national identity, this book examines the complex reactions of the people of the Caribbean to the 500th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World. Viala analyzes the ways in which Columbus became a reservoir of metaphors to confront anxieties of the present with myths of the past.

The Post-Columbus Syndrome Reviews

In The Post-Columbus Syndrome, Fabienne Viala takes the reader on a tour de force of the Caribbean's history, politics and art, using the 500th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas as its focal point of analysis. ... The book's seamless flow through several art forms and genres constitutes one of its greatest merits: the reader engages with Haitian novels, theatre in Martinique, Jamaican dub poetry and performative arts in Puerto Rico, amongst others. (Jorge Sarasola, OCCT Oxford Comparative Criticism Translation, occt.ox.ac.uk, June, 2018)

About F. Viala

Fabienne Viala is Associate Professor of Hispanic and Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Post-Columbus Syndrome: A Comparative Approach to Caribbean Memory in the Longue Duree PART I: POST-COLUMBUS SYSTEMS OF MEMORY: RECYCLING HERITAGE IN THE CARIBBEAN 1. Transculturation as Commemoration: Fernando Ortiz, the Cuban Longue Duree, and the Role of Columbus 2. Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Transnational Anamnesis: Creolising Columbus in the English Caribbean Collective Memory 3. The Snake, the Shore, and Columbus: Edouard Glissant's Anamnesis of the French departement d'outre-mer 4. Anamnesis, Chaos, and Columbus: Antonio Benitez Rojo and the Caribbean 'feedback-machine' PART II: ANAMNESIS CARIBENSIS: COLUMBUS IN 1992 5. Columbus, the Memorious: Commemorations of the 500th Anniversary of the Discovery of the New World in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic 6. Christopher Columbus in the English Caribbean: Commemoration and Performance in Jamaica 7. Columbus in Martinique and Guadeloupe: Amnesia and Commemoration in the French Outremer 8. Columbus, the Scapegoat, and the Zombie: Performance and Tales of the National Memory in Haiti Conclusion: Towards an Archipelagic Memory

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NLS9781349495405
9781349495405
1349495409
The Post-Columbus Syndrome: Identities, Cultural Nationalism, and Commemorations in the Caribbean by F. Viala
F. Viala
New Caribbean Studies
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2015-12-18
282
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