Tropical Apocalypse

Haiti and the Caribbean End Times

Martin Munro (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2015
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-3820-2 (ISBN)

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In Tropical Apocalypse, Martin Munro engages with the contemporary apocalyptic turn in Caribbean studies and lived reality, not only providing important historical contextualization for a general understanding of apocalypse in the region but also offering an account of the state of Haitian society and culture in the decades before the 2010 earthquake. Through an interdisciplinary exploration, the author situates the question of the Caribbean apocalypse in relation to broader, global narratives of the apocalyptic present—notably Slavoj Žižek's Living in the End Times— and traces the evolution of apocalyptic thought in the work of Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Édouard Glissant, Michael Dash, David Scott, and others.

Martin Munro, Winthrop-King Professor of French at Florida State University, USA is editor of Edwidge Danticat: A Reader (Virginia) and author of Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas.

Reihe/Serie	New World Studies
Verlagsort	Charlottesville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	350 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8139-3820-1 / 0813938201
ISBN-13	978-0-8139-3820-2 / 9780813938202
Zustand	Neuware