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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: (DLC) 2019018154 (OCoLC)1097961084 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrea Shaw Nevins |
ISBN: | 9780820356105 0820356107 |
OCLC Number: | 1126796762 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Introduction. Kingdoms in other worlds : the science of working juju -- British obeah : the making of Caribbean savages -- Devilish divas and gangster monsters : Hollywood's monstrous imaginings of the Caribbean -- The haunting of a nation : death and discourse in Jamaica -- Exodus : the intergalactic movement of Jah people in the works of Tobias Buckell -- Conclusion. Seeing strange things : fantastical visual portrayals of the Caribbean -- Appendix. Interview with Tobias Buckell. |
Responsibility: | Andrea Shaw Nevins. |
Abstract:
The Caribbean has historically been constructed as a region mantled by the fantastic. Andrea Shaw Nevins analyses such imaginings of the Caribbean and interrogates the freighting of Caribbean-infused spaces with characteristics that register as fantastical.
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