{"product_id":"the-purloined-islands-frederick-j-karem-9780813930862","title":"The Purloined Islands: Caribbean-U.S. Crosscurrents in Literature and Culture, 1880-1959","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Purloined Islands\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first book-length exploration of literary and cultural exchanges between the United States and the Caribbean during the roughly eighty-year period of their greatest interaction, from the close of the Spanish-American War to the Cuban Revolution. The interconnected histories of colonization, migration, slavery, and political struggle thrust writers from both regions into a vibrant literary conversation across national borders. Jeff Karem charts this dialogue and its patterns of influence through an analysis of key literary and cultural sources in English, French, and Spanish, including a large body of rare archival evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat the author identifies in this wide-ranging exchange is the Caribbean's vital contribution not only to the literatures of the American hemisphere but also to the literary and intellectual culture of the United States itself. Specifically, he shows how such movements as pan-Africanism, the New Negro Renaissance, and pan-American modernism have significant Caribbean roots, although the United States has often failed to recognize them, effectively \"purloining\" those resources without acknowledgment. As his title's allusion to Poe's \"The Purloined Letter\" suggests, Karem argues that the contributions of the Caribbean have been borrowed, appropriated, and nationalized by U.S. culture but are hidden in plain sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth its multilingual character and its emphasis on the reciprocity in cultural cross-currents will make the book of interest to readers not only in Caribbean and American cultural and literary studies but also in pan-American or border studies, Black Atlantic studies, and African American studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frederick J. Karem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813930863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813930862\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2012","brand":"Frederick J. Karem","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065175486719,"sku":"9780813930862","price":86.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7ec5415f-4783-4c54-bc92-fe8bfcac9a6f.jpg?v=1768673490","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-purloined-islands-frederick-j-karem-9780813930862","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}