Deforestation and the Yearning for Lost Landscapes in Caribbean Literatures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23655072 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 99-116 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Postcolonial ecologies (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195394429.003.0005 |
| OpenAlex | W2502779666 |
| ISBN | 9780195394429 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This chapter examines the forest as a site of multiple power struggles in the Caribbean over time. Drawing from an extensive body of Caribbean literature and history in the major language areas of the region (Spanish, English, and French), it describes how forests in the early colonial days represented spaces of fear. It also considers how the forest and rural spaces in general have been recuperated as sites of refuge for the escaped slave and places of folk authenticity in nationalist movements. The chapter cites works, including the travel narratives of Sir Walter Raleigh and Bartolomé de Las Casas and the environmental activism of Puerto Rican poet Juan Antonio Corretjer, to discuss the ways in which forests and spaces outside the plantation complex symbolize the cultural continuities of diasporic and indigenous populations in the Caribbean.
Deforestation (computer science) · Geography · Political science · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Computer Science · History
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |