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The sleepers of Roraima : a Carib trilogy
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ISBN: 0571092721 9780571092727 Year: 1970 Publisher: London : Faber & Faber,


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The age of the rainmakers
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ISBN: 0571094635 9780571094639 Year: 1971 Publisher: London : Faber & Faber,


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Análisis de la dramaturgia uruguaya actual
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ISBN: 9788416923786 8416923787 Year: 2018 Publisher: Madrid: Antígona,


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Caribbeing
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ISBN: 9789042038851 9042038853 940121168X 9789401211680 Year: 2014 Volume: 77 Publisher: Amsterdam Editions Rodopi

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From wide-ranging overviews of the entire region to close readings of specific works, this volume opens a fascinating window on the literatures and cultures of the Caribbean, covering texts in the multiplicity of languages used in the wider Caribbean: Spanish, English, French, Dutch, Portuguese, and the region’s many creoles. Authors and works discussed range from luminaries such as Derek Walcott to hitherto practically unknown works in Antillean creole languages. Underlying is the idea to foster the study of the Caribbean literary, artistic and visual text through a comparative lens, a firm proposal to think beyond the persisting linguistic barriers and scholarly divides in the field. As such, Caribbeing: Comparing Caribbean Literatures and Cultures brings a new approach to the Caribbean embracing the region’s linguistic multiplicity and complexity without eschewing the many theoretical challenges and obstacles such a scholarly endeavor entails. Because of its ample scope this book will appeal to scholars and students working on the Caribbean and Latin America, but also to those interested in the broader fields of postcolonial and cultural studies.

Individual and society in Guiana
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ISBN: 0521264537 0521269970 0511558112 9780521264532 9780521269971 9780511558115 Year: 1984 Volume: 51 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The Amerindian peoples of Guiana, the geographical region of north-east South America, have long been recognized as forming a distinct variety of the tropical forest culture. In this book, Peter Rivière employs a comparative perspective to reveal that Guianan societies, generally characterized as socially fluid and amorphous, are in fact much more highly structured than they first appear, and he identifies certain common patterns of social organization that result from sets of individual choices and relationships. By contrasting the characteristics of Guianan society with those from elsewhere in Lowland South America, he constructs a spectrum of complexity of Amerindian social structure, and argues that the Guianan variant represents the logically simplest form of organization in the area.

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