ALI books
- Miller, Paul B. Elusive Origins: The Enlightenment in the Historical
Imagination of Modern Caribbean Writers
(forthcoming from University of Virginia Press, Spring
2010).
Paul Miller explores the paradox of how modern Caribbean writers of
varying nationalities and linguistic backgrounds interpret and represent
the Enlightenment when the origins of modernity are either absent from or
difficult to pinpoint in their own region. His comparative reading of a
wide range of texts documents the conceptual and ideological shift from an
earlier generation of writers to their postmodern successors both before
and after the Cuban Revolution. In the process, he identifies the history
of eighteenth-century Europe's rapport with the Americas as a significant
subgenre of Caribbean historical fiction.
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