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Palgrave MacMillan The Post-Columbus Syndrome Identities Cultural Nationalism and Commemorations in the Caribbean 2014 Edition by F. Viala
Reflecting on the relationship between memory, power, and national identity, this book examines the complex reactions of the people of the Caribbean to the 500th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World. Viala analyzes the ways in which Columbus became a reservoir of metaphors to confront anxieties of the present with myths of the past. Table of contents :- Introduction: The Post-Columbus Syndrome: A Comparative Approach to Caribbean Memory in the Longue Duree PART I: POST-COLUMBUS SYSTEMS OF MEMORY: RECYCLING HERITAGE IN THE CARIBBEAN 1. Transculturation as Commemoration: Fernando Ortiz, the Cuban Longue Duree, and the Role of Columbus 2. Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Transnational Anamnesis: Creolising Columbus in the English Caribbean Collective Memory 3. The Snake, the Shore, and Columbus: Edouard Glissant's Anamnesis of the French departement d'outre-mer 4. Anamnesis, Chaos, and Columbus: Antonio Benitez Rojo and the Caribbean 'feedback-machine' PART II: ANAMNESIS CARIBENSIS: COLUMBUS IN 1992 5. Columbus, the Memorious: Commemorations of the 500th Anniversary of the Discovery of the New World in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic 6. Christopher Columbus in the English Caribbean: Commemoration and Performance in Jamaica 7. Columbus in Martinique and Guadeloupe: Amnesia and Commemoration in the French Outremer 8. Columbus, the Scapegoat, and the Zombie: Performance and Tales of the National Memory in Haiti Conclusion: Towards an Archipelagic Memory