Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustration
- Introduction
- A Tree Grows in Bajan Brooklyn: Writing Caribbean New York
- Reading the Novum World: The Literary Geography of Science Fiction in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Inventing Tropicality: Writing Fever, Writing Trauma in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead and Gardens in the Dunes
- Imperial Archaeology: The American Isthmus as Contested Scientific Contact Zone
- Space Age Tropics
- Black Jacobins and New World Mediterraneans
- The Oloffson
- Dark Thresholds in Trinidad: Regarding the Colonial House
- Micronations of the Caribbean
- Golden Kings, Cocaine Lords, and the Madness of El Dorado: Guayana as Native and Colonial Imaginary
- Suriname Literary Geography: The Changing Same
- The Art of Observation: Race and Landscape in A Journey in Brazil
- Notes on Contributors and Editors
- Index
Contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustration
- Introduction
- A Tree Grows in Bajan Brooklyn: Writing Caribbean New York
- Reading the Novum World: The Literary Geography of Science Fiction in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Inventing Tropicality: Writing Fever, Writing Trauma in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead and Gardens in the Dunes
- Imperial Archaeology: The American Isthmus as Contested Scientific Contact Zone
- Space Age Tropics
- Black Jacobins and New World Mediterraneans
- The Oloffson
- Dark Thresholds in Trinidad: Regarding the Colonial House
- Micronations of the Caribbean
- Golden Kings, Cocaine Lords, and the Madness of El Dorado: Guayana as Native and Colonial Imaginary
- Suriname Literary Geography: The Changing Same
- The Art of Observation: Race and Landscape in A Journey in Brazil
- Notes on Contributors and Editors
- Index
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- Surveying the American TropicsA Literary Geography from New York to Rio, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2013