Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Fredric Jameson (Editor), Stanley Fish (Editor), James E. Maraniss (Translator),Paperback - Second Edition, Edition: 2,Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions Series, English-language edition,Pub by Duke University Press
The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective (Post-Contemporary Interventions) available on July 04 2018 from Amazon for 22.24
ISBN bar code 9780822318651 ξ1 registered September 22 2015
ISBN bar code 9780822318651 ξ3 registered July 04 2018
ISBN bar code 9780822318651 ξ2 registered February 14 2015
Product category is Repeating-Island Antonio-Benitez-Rojo Book
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In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Benítez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benítez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean—the area’s discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics—there emerges an “island” of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Benítez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillén, Carpentier, García Márquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodríguez Juliá.
^Antonio Benitez-Rojo (1996). The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective ISBN 9780822318651 (revised Jul 2025)
^Antonio Benítez RojoThe Repeating Island : The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective by Antonio Benítez-Rojo (1997, Paperback)ISBN 9780822318651 (revised Mar 2015)
^Antonio Benitez-Rojo (1997). The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective (Post-Contemporary Interventions), Duke University Press Books. Amazon. ISBN 9780822318651 (revised Jul 2018)
