The Imaginary Caribbean and Caribbean Imaginary

The Imaginary is everywhere in representations of the Caribbean Islands and their people and has been ever since their “discoverers” dreamt themselves arriving, triumphant, in the Indies. This book poses a provocative question: When the Imaginary occupies the place of the Real, as in Caribbean culture and European projections of that culture, how does the Real position itself? Michèle Praeger seeks an answer by bringing the Caribbean discourses of French traditional criticism and American social