Beschreibung:
Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an argument about the centrality of time travel in the Latin American and Caribbean imagination.
An interdisciplinary look at how time travel has been used in Latin American and Caribbean literature
Prologue: Time Out of Joint Introduction: Time and Narrative in the Americas Continuing Encounters: Journeys to (and from) the 'Discovery' and Conquest of the Americas On Island Time? Temporal Displacement and the Caribbean The Ghost of La Malinche: Time Travel and Feminism Not Just Kids' Stuff: Time Travel as Pedagogy in the Americas Afterword: Time Travel Fact and Fiction