Author: Benítez Rojo, Antonio
Title: The Repeating Island : The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective
Description: Durham [NC], Duke University Press, 1996. 2nd edition, orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xii,350 pp, Series: Post-contemporary Interventions. A slight dent to bottom binding edge.. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG. ¶ Translated by James Maraniss. Contents: Introduction: The Repeating Island;Society: From Plantation to the Plantation; The Writer: Bartolomé de las Casas: Between Fiction & the Inferno; Nicolás Guillén: Sugar Mill & Poetry;Fernando Ortiz: The Caribbean & Postmodernity; Carpentier & Harris. Explorers of El Dorado; The Book: Los pãnamanes, or the Memory of the Skin;Viaje a la semilla, or the Text as Spectacle; Niño Avilés, or History's Libido; The Paradox: Naming the Father, Naming the Mother; Private Reflections on García Márquez's 'Eréndira'; Carnival; Epilogue.

Keywords: Latin American Literature, Literary Criticism, Historical, Sociology, Caribbean, Postmodern, Critical Theory, Postmodernist, Postmodernism