Intellectual History of the Caribbean

SILVIO TORRES-SAILLANT is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Latino-Latin American Studies Programme, Syracuse University, New York, USA.

• Introduction: Caribbean Unity in Nature, in History, in Defeat Colonial Migration and Theoric Awakening: An Antillean's Voyage of Discovery The Neverending History: Western Discursive Siege Caliban's Betrayal: Failed Heroes, Memory Remade, New Ways to Hope Epilogue: A Century of Caribbean Diaspora

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006'...is an extremely stimulating and at times provocative interpretive essay which examines and criticises a number of ways of looking at Caribbean history, society, and literature.' - John Gilmore, The Caribbean Review of Books'...this is a work of impressive erudition, interdisciplinary in scope and pan-Caribbean by Conviction.' - Clem Seecharan, Modernism / Modernity