The Post-Columbus Syndrome: Identities, Cultural Nationalism, and Commemorations in the Caribbean

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction—The Post-Columbus Syndrome: A Comparative Approach to Caribbean Memory in the Longue Durée ....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Transculturation as Commemoration: Fernando Ortiz, the Cuban longue durée, and the Role of Columbus....Pages 21-39
Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s Transnational Anamnesis: Creolizing Columbus in the English Caribbean Collective Memory....Pages 41-63
The Snake, the Shore, and Columbus: Edouard Glissant’s Anamnesis of the French Département d’Outre-Mer ....Pages 65-84
Anamnesis, Chaos, and Columbus: Antonio Benítez Rojo and the Caribbean Feedback-Machine ....Pages 85-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Columbus The Memorious: Commemorations of the 500th Anniversary of the Discovery of the New World in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic....Pages 109-151
Christopher Columbus in the English Caribbean: Commemoration and Performance in Jamaica....Pages 153-174
Columbus in Guadeloupe and Martinique: Amnesia and Commemoration in the French Outremer....Pages 175-203
Columbus, the Scapegoat, and the Zombie: Performance and Tales of the National Memory in Haiti....Pages 205-227
Conclusion: Toward an Archipelagic Memory....Pages 229-233
Back Matter....Pages 235-282