دانلود کتاب Between the Bocas: A Literary Geography of Western Trinidad

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Cover
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Geographic Reading of Trinidad’s West
Tracing a Caribbean Literary Past and the Role of the Local
Decoupling the Literary Map from the Modern State
Beyond Sugar: Remapping Trinidad’s Literary History
Traversing Trinidad’s Wild West (1783–1907)
Charting the Terrain: Three Maps
Mapping the Conquest and the Myth of Terra Cognita
Uncultivated Lands and Wild Frontiers
Conquistadors of Sense and Sensibilities
The Wandering, Innocent Eye/I in the Tropical Picturesque
Pirates, Revolution and Creole Consciousness
Peeping Through the Partition (1927–1936)
Modernist Visions, Porous Barrack-Yard Boundaries
Privacy, Private Property and Rent
The Gynocentric Yard
Dangerous Transgressions
Resisting Patriarchy and Colonialism
Dark Thresholds
in the Colonial House (1934)
Setting Boundaries, Crossing Borders
Policing the Perimeter
Playing House in the Community
Challenge from the South
(1935–1945)
Oil, Possession, Labour and the Yankee Dollar
Oil
Possession
Labour
The Yankee Dollar
The Sub-Urban Expansion (1940s–1950s)
Views of the Port, City and Country
Waterside Relations: The Port, Saga and Steel Band
Myths of a City and Country
From the Grass Roots to Woodford Square (1962–2010)
Community, Nationhood and the Politics of Location
From the University of Woodford Square to the People\'s Parliament
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index