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Paradise And Plantation » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Paradise And Plantation by Ian G. Strachan

Authors: Ian G. Strachan
ISBN-13: 9780813921471, ISBN-10: 0813921473
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Ian G. Strachan

Ian Gregory Strachan is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He is cofounder of the Bahamas Association for Cultural Studies and author of the novel God's Angry Babies and the plays Black Crab's Tragedy, Diary of Souls, and No Seeds in Babylon.

Book Synopsis

Novelist and playwright Strachan (English, U. of Massachusetts- Dartmouth) identifies historical, political, economic, cultural, and geographical conditions that make his native Caribbean an ideal location for paradise, and discusses the means by which the idea has thrived among travel agents and their clients. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	Introduction: Paradise Discourse	1
1	Paradise and Imperialism	17
2	Caribbean Wasteland	51
3	Paradise Is Plantation?	92
4	Naipaul's "Garden of Hell"	149
5	Walcott's Postcolonial Adam	192
6	World out of Time	224
	Conclusion: The True History of Paradise	261
	Notes	269
	Bibliography	291
	Index	311