MYTH AND HISTORY IN CARIBBEAN FICTION: Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, and Edouard Glissant.
by Webb, Barbara J
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Amherst:: University of Massachutts Press,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. A comparative study of three major Caribbean novelists: Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, and Edouard Glissant. "Despite differences of language and background, these writers from Cuba, Guyana and Martinique have much in common. Each has written extensively on the shared heritage of the peoples of the Caribbean and each has been influential in redefining the novel in the context of New World culture." Notes, selected bibliography, index. x, 185 pp.
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- Title
- MYTH AND HISTORY IN CARIBBEAN FICTION: Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, and Edouard Glissant.
- Author
- Webb, Barbara J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0870237845
- ISBN 13
- 9780870237843
- Publisher
- University of Massachutts Press,
- Place of Publication
- Amherst:
- Date Published
- (1992)
- Keywords
- Cuba, Guyana, Martinique, literary criticism, afro-caribbean,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Caribbean literature and history;
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