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American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography
Material on
the area of the Extended
If the Library has a copy, the call mark is given; otherwise, if an individual owns a copy, their initials. ATL = American Tropics Library, held in Peter's office.
New entries (dated and initialled) should remain in this first section for at least a month before being placed in their alphabetical order in the main listing. Comments and descriptions can be updated at any time by anybody.
[11.08.10 JP] Procter, James, Dwelling Places: Postwar Black British Writing, (Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 2003) JP
Though not directly investigating the AT region, contains some very interesting discussion of place and places, suburbia, the house, the street and diaspora/travel.
[7.02.10 PH] Marshall, Bill, The French Atlantic: Travels in Culture and History (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2009) E29.F8
Very much in American Tropics territory, with a theoretically-informed discussion of the idea of "the French Atlantic", an area which stretches, on the American continent, from Quebec to New Orleans to Montivideo.
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Adams, Jessica, Michael P. Bibler and Cècile Accilien, eds., Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the U.S. South (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007)
Examines the Caribbean and US South as a 'regional interculture' shaped by performance; perhaps echoes of Charles Wagley's Plantation America 'culture sphere'.
Adams, Paul C. et al., eds., Textures
of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies (
Good collection of essays, including Edward Casey's "Body, Self, and Landscape".
Anderson, Robert S., et al.,
eds.,
Bush, gardens, landscape, mountain, environment,
plants, St
Aub-Buscher,
Gertrud and Beverley Ormerod Noakes., The Francophone
Mixed collection of essays – very useful bibliography.
Balutansky, Kathleen M. and Marie-Agnès Sourieau, eds., Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on Cultural Dynamics of Language, Literature, and Identity (Gainsville: University Press of Florida / Barbados: University Press of Jamaica, 1998) MCF
Barnes, Trevor J. and James S. Duncan, eds., Writing Worlds : Discourse, Text, and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape (London : Routledge, 1992) P 134.6.D6
Baucom, Ian, Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University. Press, 1999) PR 756.E5
This book deals largely with English identities, and how the English identity was expanded upon--even brought into crisis- through empire. It covers some interesting topics as regards place, with chapter headings like "The House of Memory", and discusses the Morant Bay uprising.
Baver, Sherrie L. and Barbara Deutsch Lynch, ed., Beyond Sun and Sand: Caribbean Environmentalisms (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006) GE 190.C32
A series of essays on the political ecology of the Caribbean.
Bender, Barbara, ed., Landscape: Politics and Perspectives (Providence: Berg, 1993) JA 74. L2
Benesch, Klaus and Kerstin
Schmidt, ed., Space in
Interesting combination of geography, architecture, and literature. US focus.
Benítez-Rojo, Antonio, The Repeating
Probably an important text for the project as a whole. Chapters on Fernando Ortiz, on the plantation, on Carpentier and Wilson Harris (useful if anyone were to choose Roraíma as a place).
Benoist, J., L’archipel
inacheve: Culture et societe aux
Bernabé, Jean, Patrick Chamoiseau, Raphaël Confiant, Éloge de la Creolité/In Praise of Creoleness (Edition bilingue, Paris: Gallimard, 1990 [1989]) MCF
Bongie, Chris,
A long chapter on Faulkner (Victor Hugo) and Carpentier on the Haitian Revolution.
Brickhouse, Anna, Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere (Cambridge: CUP, 2004) PS 159.L22
Lines of literary influence connecting Philadelphia and Havana, Port-au-Prince and Boston, Paris and New Orleans. An important book.
Bridge, Gary and Sophie
Watson, eds., A Companion to the City (
Introductory pieces, surveys and commentaries on important trends in urban thinking – again, cultural geography at heart, but inter-disciplinary.
Bridge, Gary and Sophie
Watson, eds., The
Inter-disciplinary sourcebook of key writings on the city, including material by Benjamin, LeFebvre, Foucault, and many others, including literary sources (e.g. Joyce).
Bryce, Jane (ed.), Caribbean Dispatches: Beyond the Tourist Dream (Oxford: Macmillan, 2006)
Burnett, D. Graham, Masters
of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British
Detailed study of a place from a history of science perspective. Especially good on cartography.
Callicott, J. Baird and Michael P. Nelson, ed., The Great New Wilderness Debate (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998) QH 75.G7
Described on the cover as "An expansive collection of writings defining wilderness from John Muir to Gary Snyder". Nearly 700 pages. Very useful.
Campbell, Chris and Erin Somerville, eds, "What is the Earthly Paradise?" Ecocritical Responses to the Caribbean (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007) GE 190.C32
Essays on inter alia tourism, Trinidad, Naipaul, Chamoiseau, and Walcott.
Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature
of the West Indies, 1657-1777, edited and with an
introduction by Thomas W. Krise (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) PR 9325
Interesting collection of extracts from early texts on Anglophone Caribbean, not always easy to find elsewhere.
Carnegie, Charles V., Postnationalism
Prefigured:
Not much on literature here, but provides a good sociohistorical background to our project.
Carnes, Mark C. ed., Novel
History; Historian and Novelists Confront
One article by Trouillot on
Carter, Erica et al., ed., Space and Place: Theories of Identity and Location (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1993) HM101 S.7
18 essays under the headings "Home and Exile", "Englishness and Imperialism", and "City Spaces".
Casey, Edward S., "How to Get from Space to Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of Time", in Senses of Place, ed. Steven Field and Keith H. Basso (Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 1996), 13-52 PH
Best single article introduction to Casey's phenomenological perspective.
Casey, Edward S., Representing Place: Landscape Painting and Maps (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002) ND 1340
The third in Casey's pentateuch: a rich source for thinking about literary geography.
Cash, W. J., The Mind of the South ((1941)
A classic examination of the South’s pastoral self-creation/imagining – originally very controversial in the South, and still relevant and influential.
Casid, Jill H., Sowing
Empire: Landscape and Colonization (
Written by an art historian, so interestingly different perspective. Introduction is called "On the Psychogeographies of Empire". 18th-century focus, both English and French Caribbean islands.
Castillo, Susan and Ivy
Schweitzer, ed., A Companion to the Literature of Colonial
33 essays on colonial American writing in hemispheric sense. Much of general relevance and some good specific pieces on, for example, Oronooko.
Chaffin, Tom, Fatal Glory: Narciso López and the First
Clandestine
About
the 1850 and 1851 invasions of
Chevigny,
Compton, Jacques, The West Indians: A Portrait of a People (London: Hansib, 2009)
Connery, Christopher L., "Ideologies of Land and Sea: Alfred Thayer Mahan, Carl Schmitt, and the Shaping of Global Myth Elements", boundary 2, 28/2 (2001), 173-201.
Connery, Christopher L., "The Oceanic Feeling and the Regional Imaginary", in Rob Wilson and Wimal Dissanayake, eds., Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary (Durham: Duke UP, 1996), pp. 284-311.
Connery, Christopher L., "Pacific Rim Discourse: The U.S. Global Imaginary in the Late Cold War Years", boundary 2 , 21/1 (1994), 30-56 UofE Library online
Connery, Christopher L., "There Was No More Sea: The Supersession of the Ocean, from the Bible to Cyperspace", Journal of Historical Geography, 32 (2006), 494-511.
One of a range (see below) of Connery's pieces about the sea (mostly the Pacific). Worth attending to because of congruences with Caribbean / Atlantic areas and because of high level of theoretical sophistication..
Cooper, Anna Julia, Slavery And The French Revolutionists (1788-1805), translated with forward and introductory essay by Frances Richardson Keller (Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988)
Cosgrove, Denis, Geography & Vision: Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World (London: I.B. Tauris, 2008) G 71.5
Posthumously published essays by the finest cultural geographer. The section called "Landscape visions: America" is particularly relevant.
Cosgrove, Denis and Stephen Daniels, eds., The Iconography of Landscape (Cambridge: CUP, 1988)
Landmark collection of essays in historical geography
Cox, Kevin R., Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the Local (New York: Guilford Press, 1997) HF 1401.S7
Crang, Mike and Nigel Thrift
(eds.), Thinking Space (
Introductory essays, often very helpful, on some
key theorists of space and place.
Cresswell, Tim, Place: A
Short Introduction (
Introduction to the topic for students of geography. Very useful.
Crosby, Alfred W., Ecological
Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of
Crow, Charles, ed., A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003) ATL
That is, US regional literatures, but a useful collection (31 essays) nonetheless. Copies of four essays are in ATL: Lori Roison, "Region and Race: National History and the Southern Past"; Vera Kutzinski, "Borders, Bodies, and Regions: The United States and the Caribbean"; Sarah E. Gardner, "The Plantation School: Dissenters and Countermyths"; Suzanne Disheroon-Green, "Romanticizing a Different Lost Cause: Regional Identities in Louisiana and the Bayou Country".
Darian-Smith, Kate, Gunner, Liz and Sarah
Nuttall (eds.), Text, Theory, Space,
Land, Literature and History in
Useful collection of essays. David Bunn’s contribution discusses the use of space
in sugar plantations.
Dash, J. Michael, Caribbean
Literature in a
Dawes, Kwame (ed.), Talk Yuh Talk (
A collection of interviews with Anglophone Caribbean poets.
De Barros, Juanita, Audra
Diptree, and David V. Trotman, eds., Beyond Fragmentation: Perspectives on
Survey
essays of recent historical scholarship on all language areas of the
Debord, Guy, "Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography" (originally in Les lévres nues, no. 6, 1955) [http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display_printable/2]
First use of the term 'psychogeography.
DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M.,
Renee K. Gosson, and George B. Handley, ed.,
Very relevant collection of essays, ranging widely
across the
DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., Routes
and Roots: Navigating
Extremely good and relevant book, half of which
focuses on the
Dening, Greg, Beach Crossings: Voyaging Across Times, Cultures and Self (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) PH
About the Pacific, but offers good example of how to write about both cultural encounter and place.
D’Haen, Theo et al, ed., How
Far Is
Proceedings of the first world congress of the
International American Studies Association. 636 pages. Mainly, but not
exclusively US focus. Reasonable number of essays on space
/place issues.
D'hulst, Lieven et al., ed., Caribbean
Interfaces (
18 essays in English and French on a variety of
Diamond, Jared M., Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (New York: Penguin, 2006) JP
While its title sounds rather apocalyptic, this book examines some of the environmental and social challenges affecting societies. A seminal and somewhat populist geographer, Diamond deals with ancient Mesoamerican societies (Anasazi and Mayan) in two chapters, and Haiti and the Dominican Republic in another.
Diken, Bulent and Carsten
Bagge Laustsen, The Culture of Exception: Sociology Facing the Camp (
Wide-ranging and interesting--if not always convincing--set of developments of the ideas of Giorgio Agamben, basically to the effect that 'the camp' is now the norm.
Dimock, Wai Chee and Lawrence Buell, ed., Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007) PS 157
That is, US literature, but some good writers--both editors, Paul Giles, Homi Bhabha, Joseph Roach. Perhaps especially relevant is Dimock's "African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole Tongue".
Duncan, James et al, eds., A Companion to Cultural Geography Oxford: Blaclwell, 2004) GF 21.C6
Indispensable guide to cultural geography. 32 essays.
Dodds, Klaus and David Atkinson, eds., Geopolitical Traditions: A Century of Geopolitical Thought (London: Routledge, 2000) JC 319.G4
Duva, David Timothy, ed., Tourism in the Caribbean: Trends, Development, Prospects (London: Routledge, 2004) G 155.C32
Wide-ranging collection of essays about tourism in the Caribbean, including one by Mimi Sheller. Multiple mentions of most of our places, with St Lucia showing up particularly strongly in the index.
Edmond, Rod and Vanessa Smith, ed., Islands in History and Representation (London: Routledge, 2003) JV 105.I7
Has essays
on 18th century
Escobar, Arturo, "Culture Sits in Places: Reflections on Globalism and Subaltern Strategies of Localization", Political Geography, 20 (2001), 139-174 PH
The political and anthropological dimension of place.
Featherstone, Mike and Scott Lash, Spaces of Culture (London: Sage
Publications, 1999) HM101.
S7
A lot of interesting ideas here addressing different
types of “space”.
Ferguson, James, Traveller’s Literary Companion: The Caribbean (London: In Print Publishing, 1997) PH
Just a bluffers’ guide really, but with some useful
hints for
Perhaps of note is that Hart Crane wrote a poem to the statue of Joséphine in Fort-de-France. Other travel writing about Martinique was produced by Truman Capote, Alec Waugh, and Noel Coward (!).
On Cuba, there is an apparently very interesting US novelist and travel writer, Joseph Hergesheimer (d. 1958) – completely unknown (at least to PH).
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe, The
Fernández Retamar, Roberto, Caliban
and Other Essays (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997) F 1408.5
Foucault, Michel, "Of Other Spaces", Diacritics, 16 (Spring 1986), 22-27 [online in University of Essex library]
A brief essay outlining Foucault's theory of heterotopia; worth reading in conjunction with Ben Genocchio's chapter in Postmodern Cities and Spaces.
Foucault, Michel, Discipline and
Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. by Alan Sheridan (Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1991) HV 8665.F6
A lot about space, particularly ‘disciplinary space’.
Gallagher, Mary, ed., Ici-Là:
Place and Displacement in
Essential for French Caribbean but also of wider relevance.
Gallagher, Mary, ed., World Writing: Poetics, Ethics, Globalization (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008) PH
Essays by Mary Gallagher and Celia Britton on Glissant, and by Rob Wilson on US area studies.
Genovese, Eugene D., Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (New York: Vintage, 1976) OR
An aging but still important cultural history of slavery, focussing on the South, but with reference to other regions.
George, Rosemary Marangoly, The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth-Century Fiction (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996) PR 9080.C4
Though the focus is not the Americas, the introduction takes an interesting literary approach to notions of 'home'. George is somewhat sceptical of some human geographers such as Yi-Fu Tuan, E Relph and Gaston Bachelard.
Glissant, Édouard, Le discours antillais (Paris Seuil, 1981) PH
Glissant, Edouard, Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays, trans. J. Michael Dash (Charlottesville: UPV. 1989) PH MCF JP
A partial translation of Le discours antillais.
Glissant, Edouard, Poetics of Relation, trans. Betsy Wing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997) PH MCF
Glissant, Edouard, Faulkner, Mississippi, trans by B. Lewis and T. C. Spear (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999)
Goldman, Dara E., Out of Bounds: Islands and the Demarcation of Identity in the Hispanic Caribbean (Lewisberg: Bucknell University Press, 2008) PQ 7361
Focus as title suggests. Includes studies of Manuel Galván, Julia Alvarez, etc., as well as interesting stuff on the idea of the island.
Goudie, Sean X., Creole
An unusual but very relevant work, which attempts to 'creolize' the early US Republic by looking at its West Indian relationships, especially in the writings of Franklin, Hamilton, and Freneau. Haiti inevitably casts its shadow.
Gray, Richard, Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region ((1986) 2nd ed. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997) OR
A study of Southern literary self-fashioning – an important critique of Agrarianism among other things, originally quite controversial on this score, and influential in Southern studies since.
Gray, Richard, Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000) OR
A study of (U.S.) writers often excluded from canonical models of a Southern literatary tradition, including African Americans, women, and writers who have moved away from the South. In some ways a companion to Writing the South.
Gray, Richard, A History of American Literature (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004) OR LH
Most recent and most extensive single-volume history
of
Gray, Richard and Owen Robinson (eds.), A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004) OR
Thirty-four essays on various aspects of Southern literature and culture, from pre-Columbus to present, including Helen Taylor’s ‘The South through Other Eyes,’ on transatlantic engagements with the South, and in particular New Orleans.
Gray, Richard and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz
(eds.), Transatlantic Exchanges: The
American South in Europe, Europe in the American South (Vienna: Austrian
Academy of Sciences, 2007)
Some of the major players in Southern studies, discussing the U.S. South from transatlantic perspectives, questioning U.S.-centric approaches. Includes essay by OR on Cable positing the Caribbean as a necessarily intrinsic part of these exchanges.
Hallward, Peter, Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing between the Singular and the Specific (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001) JV 51. H2
By no means a light read. The thrust of Hallward's argument is that postcolonial discourse is best understood as singular and non-relational. Edouard Glissant and Charles Johnson are discussed in the first half. Hallward seems to pre-empt a project that might propose an alternative to the postcolonial paradigm.
Handley, George, Postslavery
Literatures in the
Ambitious set of comparisons between, for example, Villaverde and Cable, Carpentier and Faulkner, Rhys and Morrison.
Harris, Wilson, The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination: Selected Essays ed. A. Bundy (London: Routledge, 1999) MCF
Henke, Holger, “Mapping
the ‘Inner
Provision grounds as origin of a contemporary psychological landscape. Interesting if not entirely convincing argument.
Hernández, Felipe et al, eds., Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin American (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005) HT 129.A1T7
12 essays, including one on Caribbean sense of place, several on cities, several on Brazil, and a general one on transculturation theory.
Heuman, Gad, The
Excellent 200-page introduction to the social history of the region.
Hicks, Dan, The Garden of the World (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2007)
Hillier, Jean and Emma Rooksby, Habitus: A Sense of Place (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005) HM 36.H2
Contains Bourdieu’s seminal essay “Habitus”, plus a collection of essays under the three headings, “Politics of Space and Place”, “Processes of Space Making”, and “Decolonising Spatial Habitus”.
Horne, Gerald, Cold War in a Hot Zone: the United States confronts labor and independence struggles in the British West Indies (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007) Online book
Good history of labour struggles, trade unionism, US interests, colonial rule, policing, espionage and anti-communist ('Red terror') fears in the British West Indies; particularly focused on early C20th; good material on St. Lucia and Trinidad.
Hubbard, Phil, Rob Kitchin,
and Gill Valentine, eds., Key Thinkers
on Space and Place, (
Short pieces on the contribution to spatial theory of a host of writers, from Anderson to Cosgrove, Bhabha to Latour, Foucault to Soja.
Hulme, Peter, "Dominica and Tahiti: Tropical Islands Compared" in Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, ed. Felix Driver and Luciana Martins, Chicago University Press, 2005), pp. 77-90.
Hulme, Peter, "Beyond the Straits: Postcolonial Allegories of the Globe", in Postcolonial Studies and Beyond, ed. Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, and Jed Esty, Durham: Duke University Press, 2005, pp. 41-61.
Hulme, Peter, "Travesías a Oriente. Cuba
en la encrucijada", Casa de las Américas, 244 (2006)
http://www.casa.cult.cu/publicaciones/revistacasa/244/hulmer.pdf
Early articulation of project translated into Spanish.
Hurston, Zora Neale, Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings (New York: Library of America, 1995) OR
Isaac, Allan Punzalan, American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006) E 184 F.4
Uses our title (independently) to draw the Philippines into American discussions. Chapters include "Imperial Romance: Framing Manifest Destiny in the Pacific" and "Reconstituting Americna Subjects: Proximate Masculinities".
One of the pioneers of the study of the vernacular landscape. Why do so many places in the USA have 'grove' in their name? What kind of landscape does a military occupation create? Just what is a garden? Interesting stuff.
James, C.L.R., The Black Jacobins [1938] (London: Allison & Busby, 1994) F 1923
James, Conrad and John
Perivolaris, eds., The Cultures of the
Hispanic
Seventeen essays on Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican literature.
Jáuregui, Carlos A., Canibalia: Canibalismo, calibanismo, antropofagia cultural y consumo en América Latina (Madrid and Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana and Vervuert, 2008) F 1408.5.J2
700-page study of all the topics in the title. A definitive piece of cultural history.
Jay, Paul, "The Myth of 'America ' and the Politics of Location: Modernity, Border Studies, and the Literature of the Americas", Arizona Quarterly, 54/2 (1998), 165-192 PH
Jones, Charles A., American Civilization (
An attempt to see the continent whole, from a largely
historical perspective. Argues that the
Jones, Suzanne W. and Sharon
Monteith (eds.), South to a New Place:
Region, Literature, Culture (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,
2002) PS261.S6
Excellent
collection of essays exploring the U.S. South in more hemispheric and
transatlantic senses, mostly in relation to specific texts and writers. Some discussion of
Jordan, David M., New World Regionalism: Literature in the Americas (Toronto: UTP, 1994)
Compares US (incl. Faulkner) and northern Brazilian novels.
Kaplan, Amy and Donald Pease, eds., Cultures of United States Imperialism (Durham: Duke UP, 1993) E 179.5
26 really good essays, several particularly relevant to AT, but most of general relevance.
Kostof, Spiro, The City Shaped (London: Thames & Hudson, 1991) NA 9090
This offers a very comprehensive study of the city and provides many useful insights into city formation. From Pierre Lavedan's notion of the planned or created city and the spontaneous city - ville créée and ville spontanée - right through to the grid and skyscraper city, this book is packed with architectural diagrams, analysis and concepts.
Kricher, John, A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997) QH 106.5
Good environmental handbook to American Tropics area.
Kumar Rajaram, Prem and Carl Grundy-Warr, eds., Borderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory's Edge (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007) JV 6033.B6
Essential collection on borders. Not much directly on AT, but much of general relevance, not least the very idea of "borderscapes".
Kupperman, Karen Ordahl, "Fear of Hot Climates in the Anglo-American Colonial Experience", WMQ, 41 (1984), 213-240 PH
Lara, Oruno D., Space and History in the Caribbean, trans. Christine Ayorinde (Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2006) PH
Good single volume introduction, from geology to recent history.
Levander, Caroline F. and Robert S. Levine, eds., Hemispheric American Studies (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2008) PH
A whole raft (15) of relevant essays by some of the best scholars in the field, with a focus on the AT area.
Lewis, Gordon K., Main Currents in Caribbean Thought: The Historical Evolution of Caribbean Society in Its Ideological Aspects 1942-1900 (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1983) PH
Lindsey-Poland, John, Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama (Durham: Duke UP, 2003) F 1566.4.U6
Livingstone, David N., "The Moral Discourse of Climate: Historical Considerations on Race, Place and Virtue", Journal of Historical Geography, 17/4 (1991), 413-434 PH
Livingstone, David N., The Geographical Tradition: Episodes in the
History of a Contested
McCook, Stuart, States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002) S 471.C32
Intersection of science, nature, and nation in Spanish Caribbean.
MacKenzie, John M., ed., Imperialism and the Natural World (Manchester: MUP, 1990)
Madureira, Luís, Cannibal
Modernities: Postcoloniality and the Avant-garde in Caribbean and Brazilian
Literature (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005)
Chapters on Amazonian writing and film, and Brazilian antropofagia movement, and on
Carpentier. Theoretically
sophisticated.
Malpas, J.E., Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography (Cambridge: CUP, 1999) B 105.P5
Probably the most sophisticated of the philosophical treatments of place, largely from a Heidegerrian perspective. Interesting but difficult.
Mann, Charles C., 1491:
New Revelations of the
Excellent
summary, especially strong on current controversies about population numbers,
cultural development, etc. Within AT, good on
Massey, Doreen, "Geographies of Responsibility", Geografiska Annaler, 86 B (1) (2004), 5-18.
Sceptical of Casey's notion of place. Focus on London.
Matibag,
Eugenio, Haitian-Dominican
Counterpoint: Nation, State And Race In
To be read with Wucker’s book on the same topic
May, Robert E., The Southern Dream of a
Pretty specialised historical study but may be useful for US South / Caribbean links.
May, Robert E., Manifest Destiny’s Underworld:
Filibustering in Antebellum America (
Many filibusters were based in New Orleans for their military expeditions to Cuba, Nicaragua, Honduras, and other circum-Caribbean destinations. Very thorough historical study.
Mintz, Sidney W., Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (New York: Viking, 1985) PH
Mintz, Sidney W., "The
Mitchell, W.J.T., ed., Landscape and Power, 2nd. ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002)
Influential collection of essays. Mitchell's new preface, "Space, Place, and Landscape" is important for its insistence on the need to triangulate those concepts. Other highlights include Mitchell's own essay, "Imperial Landscape"; Michael Taussig's "The Beach (A Fantasy)"; and Robert Pogue Harrison's "Hic Jacet", about the importance of the burial of ancestors for the notion of place.
Moitt, Bernard, Women and Slavery in the French Antilles 1635-1848 (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2001) HT 1107
Moretti, Franco, Graphs,
Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History (
Geometry rather than geography, but its models are relevant and interesting nonetheless.
Morse, Richard M., New World Soundings: Culture and Ideology in the Americas (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989) E 20
Learned and wide-ranging. Especially good on language and on
Mulcahy, Matthew, Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783 (Baltimore: JHUP, 2006) PH
Detailed study of one of the defining meteorological phenomena of the AT region.
Nash, Roderick, Wilderness and the American Mind, rev. ed. (New Haven, Yale
University Press, 1973)
History of the relationship between constructions of
wilderness and American identity. Perhaps a bit old-fashioned, but still useful.
Noyes, John, Colonial Space: Spatiality in the Discourse of German South West Africa 1884-1915 (Chur: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1992) PT 3951
Although its area is not American, this book is important for its theorising of the idea of 'colonial space'. Compare with Paul Carter's work, though this has a harder theoretical edge.
O'Callaghan, Evelyn, Women Writing the West Indies, 1804-1939: "A hot place, belonging to Us" (New York: Routledge, 2004) PR 9320.5
Examines texts from many women writing in the C19th and early C20th from expatriate, resident and creole perspectives.
Okihiro, Gary Y., Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) DU 625
Focus is on Hawai'i, but much of relevance to the tropical zone in general.
Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth and Ivette Romero-Cesareo, ed., Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Cultures (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008) PH ATL
Nine essays on Caribbean literature and culture: three (by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Peter Hulme, and Antonio Benitez Rojo) are photocopied at ATL.
Patterson, Anita, Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms (Cambridge: CUP, 2008) PH
Reinserts the poetry of T.S. Eliot into an American context by reading him alongside Poe, Whitman, and St. John Perse; before moving on to studies of Langston Hughes, Jacques Roumain, Wilson Harris, and Derek Walcott. A seriously impressive critical study, which pays significant attention to place.
Pease, Donald and Robyn
Wiegman, ed., The Futures of American
Studies (
A lot essays about American Studies. Some of the more outward-looking ones might provide a good approach to the extended Caribbean:-
Jan Rodway’s address to the 1998 ASA, which is
particularly interesting; Don Pease on C.L.R. James’s book on Moby Dick;
and Ricardo Ortiz on
Perera, Suvendrini, Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies (New York: Palgrave, 2009) PH
Subtitle suggests its relevance to many AT themes. A sharp and provocative study of the issues.
Porter, Carolyn, "What We Know That We Don't Know: Remapping American Literary Studies", American Literary History 3 (1994), 467-526 Online
Price, Richard & Sally, The Root of Roots : or, How Afro-American anthropology got its start, Chicago, Ill. : Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003 p GN 21.M4
Much of Richard and Sally Price’s work will be relevant for anyone working on northern South America. This short pamphlet is more general and does what it says in the title.
Puri, Shalini, ed., Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean (Oxford: Macmillan Education [Warwick University Caribbean Series], 2003) PH
This is a new collection about internal migration in the Caribbean with essays on, inter alia, mythographies of the Panama Canal and the Haiti/Dominican Republic border (which would make another fascinating site), and a very good bibliography.
Pérez Firmat, Gustavo, ed., Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? (Durham: Duke UP, 1990) PS159.L2 925911909
1 . Snippets from books by Saldívar and Benítez-Rojo which are probably worth attention in themselves.
2. Useful general essay (Parkinson Zamora) on the idea of history in US and Latin American fiction.
3. Potentially interesting piece (Piedra) comparing the blues and the Cuban son.
4. Typically impenetrable but fascinating essay (González) on the Cuban novel about interracial sex, Cecilia Valdés (with references to Faulkner and Twain).
. On Faulkner’s “The Bear” and Carpentier’s Los pasos perdidos (Faris).
6. On
Adrienne Rich and Aimé Césaire (
7. On Lezama Lima and new world exceptionalism (Pérez Firmat).
Phaf, Ineke, ed., Presencia
criolla en el Caribe y America
Essays in Spanish and English. Particularly interesting for dialogue between Kamau Brathwaite and Edouard Glissant.
Pickles, John, A History
of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-coded World (
Radding, Cynthia, Landscapes of
Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the
The
preface and introduction contain interesting meditations on place.
Rigby, Kate, Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004) PT 363.N3
Part of UV's series Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism.
Rodríguez, Emilio Jorge, Acriollamiento y discurso escrit/oral caribeño (Havana: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2001) PM 7834.C32
Unusual to find a Cuban critic writing not only about Spanish Caribbean writing but also orality and poetry in the English-speaking Caribbean.
Rojer, Olga E. and Joseph O.
Antoine, ed. and trans., Founding Fictions of the Dutch
Translations of two mid-twentieth-century Dutch
Caribbean novels, very few of which are available in English.
Rowe, Anne E., The Idea of
Discusses
the way in which
Sack, Robert David, Homo Geographicus: A Framework for Action, Awareness, and Moral Concern (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) GF 21.S2
Sale, Kirkpatrick, Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000) HM 206.S2
If AT is a bioregion, then Sale is the best introduction to the idea of bioregionalism.
Salívar, José David, The Dialectics of Our
Sargasso 2007-2008, I ATL
One of the most consistently interesting Caribbean journals. This issue has, among much else, an interview with Patrick Chamoiseau, an essay on Black Athena and Derek Walcott, and a review of a book called Deconstructing Creole.
Schwarz, Bill, ed., The West Indian Intellectual in
Scott, Rebecca J., Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2005) E 185.93.L6
Fine comparative study of two places within AT.
Segal, Ronald, The Black Diaspora: Five Century of the Black
Experience Outside
Serje, Margarita, El revés de la nación: territorios salvajes,
fronteras y tierras de nadie (Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, 2005)
Although
in Spanish and largely focusing on
Sheller, Mimi, Consuming the Caribbean: from Arawaks to Zombies (London: Routledge, 2003) PH
Excellent book on representations of the
Sheller,
Mimi, “
Many
parts of the
Shepherd, Verene and Hilary
Beckles, ed., Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic
World (
A student reader/collection of essays.
Skelton, Tracey, ed., Introduction to the Pan-Caribbean (London: Arnold, 2004) F 1609.5
Not noticeably wider than the non-pan Caribbean, but some reasonable introductory essays from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Smith, Jon and Deborah Cohn,
ed., Look Away! The
Excellent collection of 21 essays, many relevant to our project.
Spillers, Hortense, "Who
Cuts the Border?: Some
Steinberg, Philip E., The Social Construction of the Ocean (Cambridge: CUP, 2001) GC 11.S7
Postcolonial study of the construction of the world-ocean. Much of relevance to the Caribbean.
Stephens, Michelle Ann, Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914-1962 (Durham: Duke UP, 2005) E 185.6.S7
Much of interest on DuBois, Garvey, McKay, James, etc. Last chapter is entitled: "America is One Island Only: The Caribbean and American Studies".
Stoler, Ann Laura, ed., Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006) E 179.5.H2
Essays on the relationship between the 'domain of the intimate' and colonial power. US-based, with a couple of essay on Louisiana. Impressive collection.
Strachan, Ian G., Paradise and Plantation: Tourism and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002) F 1609.5
Several general chapters about the history of tourism in the Caribbean, but also chapters on Naipaul and Walcott.
Sullivan-González, Douglass
and Charles Reagan Wilson (eds.), The South
and the
Historical essays and commentaries and various common or
comparable aspects of the
Sutton, Constance R. (ed.), Revisiting Caribbean Labour (Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, 2005)
Taylor, Helen, Circling
Thompson, Krista A., An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography,
and Framing the
Using
Ranges across the globe but contains essays on
Trollope and Froude, on ecotourism, and on haunted landscapes, among others.
Tobin, Beth Fowkes, Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) PR 143
Only one chapter specifically on the West Indies, but generally relevant to thinking tropically.
Torres-Saillant,
S,
Torres-Saillant, Silvio, An Intellectual History of the
Valuable if somewhat rambling. No Caribbean scholar has a wider range of reference than this Dominican (based in New York). The four main headings are "Caribbean Unity in Nature, History, and Prospects", "Colonial Migration and Theoric Awakening" (a fascinating autobiographical essay), "The Endless History: The Caribbean versus Western Discourse", and "Caliban's Dilemma: A Disabling Memory and Possible Hope".
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995) PH MCF; and Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World (New York: St Martin’s Press, 2002)
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, "North Atlantic Universals: Analytical Fictions, 1492-1945", South Atlantic Quarterly, 101:4 (2002), 839-58.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, "Anthropology and the Savage Slot: The Poetics and Politics of Otherness" in Recapturing Anthropology, ed. R.G. Fox, (Santa Fe: Sch. Am. Res. Press 1991), pp. 17-44.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, "The Inconvenience of Freedom: Free people of Color and the Aftermath of slavery in Dominica and Saint-Domingue/Haiti", in The Meaning of Freedom, ed. McGlynn and Drescher (Pittsburgh: Univ of Pittsburgh Press, 1992), pp. 00-00.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, "The Otherwise Modern: Caribbean Lessons from the Savage Slot", in Critically Modern: Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies, ed. Bruce M. Knauft (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002)
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph,
"Culture on the Edges: Creolization in the
Tuan, Yi-fu, Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1977)
Tucker, Richard P., Insatiable Appetite : The U. S. and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World (Ewing, NJ: University of California Press, 2000) Online book
Material on many aspects of the American Tropics.
Twelve Southerners, I’ll
Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition
((1930)
Fascinating Agrarian nonsense: a collection of essays by members of the Nashville Agrarian group, and a prime example of the kind of essentially nationalistic, self-fashioning pastoralism critiqued by, e.g., Cash and Gray. At once awful and seminal, this remains important in considerations of the South, even if only in the negative.
Walcott, Derek, What the Twilight Says: Essays (London: Faber, 1998); The Haitian Trilogy (New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2002) MCF LH
Walter, E.V., Placeways: A Theory of the Human Environment (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1988)
Unusual mixture of modern sociology and classical scholarship. Intriguing.
Warner, Keith Q., On Location: Cinema and Film in the Anglophone Caribbean (Oxford: Macmillan Caribbean, 2000) PN 1993.5.C32
Watkins-Owens, Irma, Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930 (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996)
Watson, Sophie and Katherine Gibson, ed., Postmodern Cities and Spaces (London: Blackwell, 1995) HT 153.P6
Interesting discussion of the Foucault's heterotopologies in Edward W. Soja's and Benjamin Genocchio's chapters. Also there's a chapter on Kingston, Jamaica, and another entitled 'The invisible flâneur'.
Watson, Tim, Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780-1870 (Cambridge: CUP, 2008) ATL
The focus is on Jamaica, but much of interest on 'creole realism', 'Caribbean romance', and the Morant Bay rebellion.
Standard work by leading British historical geographer.
Wucker,
Michelle, Why The Cocks Fight: Dominicans,
Haitians And The Struggle For
To be read with Matibag’s book on the same topic.
Zamora, Lois Parkinson and Silvia Spitta, eds., "The Americas, Otherwise", Comparative Literature, 61/3 (2009)
Nice collection of essays on hemispheric American writing.