TY - BOOK ID - 79273705 TI - Surveying the American tropics : a literary geography from New York to Rio AU - Fumagalli, Maria Cristina AU - Hulme, Peter AU - Robinson, Owen AU - Wylie, Lesley PY - 2013 SN - 9781846318900 9781846319983 1846319986 9781781387948 178138794X 1846318904 1781389403 PB - Liverpool Liverpool University Press DB - UniCat KW - Thematology KW - American literature KW - Spanish-American literature KW - Caribbean area KW - Caribbean literature KW - Central American literature KW - Latin American literature KW - History and criticism. KW - West Indies KW - Latin America KW - In literature. KW - Imperialism in literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:79273705 AB - ́'American Tropics' refers to a kind of extended Caribbean, an area that includes the southern USA, the Atlantic littoral of Central America, the Caribbean islands, and northern South America. European colonial powers fought intensively here against indigenous populations and against each other for control of land and resources. The regions in the American Tropics share a history in which the dominant fact is the arrival of millions of white Europeans and black Africans; share an environment that is tropical or sub-tropical; and share a socio-economic model (the plantation), whose effects lasted at least well into the twentieth century. The imaginative space of the American Tropics therefore offers a differently centred literary history from those conventionally produced as US, Caribbean, or Latin American literature.This important collection brings together essays by distinguished scholars, including the late Neil Whitehead, Richard Price, Sally Price, and Susan Gillman, that engage with the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics and that represent the rich diversity of the writing produced within this geographical area. ER -