On Tropical Grounds
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The book argues that attention to the relational dimension implicit in exchanges around ideas of anticolonial struggle, radical social transformation, and anti-fascist resistance should inform analyses of cultural production in Caribbean and Atlantic insular spaces. On Tropical Grounds develops a persuasive critical model for the investigation of politically and aesthetically situated archipelagic relations that transgresses disciplinary boundaries and reconfigures our conception of the avant-garde as a global movement that was overdetermined by racial, gender, and colonial conflicts.
This book will be of value to anyone interested in Caribbean and Atlantic studies, avant-garde and visual culture studies, and literary and cultural studies.
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Acknowledgments xi
Foreword - Richard Rosa xv
Introduction: On Tropical Grounds 1
Part I. Atlantic, Hispanic, Avant-Garde: Archaic Places / Non-European Regressions
1 Around the Atlantic Avant-Garde: Insular Dreamworlds / Archaic Islandscapes 21
2 Male Regressions: The Non-Europeans 56
Part II. Caribbean, Colonial, Avant-Garde: From Poesía Negra to Carceral Romances
3 Islands of Desire: A Poetics of Antillean Fragmentation 101
4 Carceral, Island, Nation: Cuban Romances in Photography and Fiction 134
Part III. Surrealism after France: Crime and Desire from the Canary Islands to the Americas
5 Surrealism and the Islands: The Practice of Dislocation 171
6 Difficult Dialogues: Surrealism in the Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean 206
Epilogue: Preface to the 1950s 246
Notes 255
Index 299
