{"product_id":"on-tropical-grounds-avant-garde-and-surrealism-in-the-insular-atlantic-hardback-9781509561667","title":"On Tropical Grounds; Avant-Garde and Surrealism in the Insular Atlantic (Hardback) 9781509561667","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOn Tropical Grounds\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAvant-Garde and Surrealism in the Insular Atlantic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFrancisco-J. Hernandez Adrian (Author), Richard Rosa (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509561667, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 October 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.8 x 3 cm, 0.658 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOn Tropical Grounds\u003c\/i\u003e executes a cultural, intellectual, and literary history of striking depth and inimitable originality. Avant-garde canons of knowledge are constellated as they separate but hold together the idea of island, islandness, and insularity running through the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean and the Canary Islands. This mosaic of resounding thoughts is literary and visual theory, not of a particular time, but it is a vital reference for our time. It is a must-read for all those who are thinking about the Caribbean and the Atlantic world vis-à-vis​ dynamic but often hard-to-articulate traces, disruptive spaces, conceptual grasps.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaudia Milian, Duke University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Tropical Grounds\u003c\/i\u003e develops a new approach to the avant-garde and Surrealism in Caribbean and Atlantic studies. The book examines how islands and their tropical associations figure in the cultural and political imaginaries of the Caribbean and the Atlantic, and identifies genealogies of local responses to continental fantasies of exotic insularity. Examining written and visual works that reflect on the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean and the Canary Islands, as well as critical debates around discourses of insularity in island and metropolitan spaces, this book considers notions of ethnic purity, originality, imitation, appropriation, cosmopolitanism, and self-exoticism to challenge the idea that avant-garde practices were pre-eminently urban and metropolitan cultural forms.  \u003cp\u003eThe book argues that attention to the relational dimension implicit in exchanges around ideas of anticolonial struggle, radical social transformation, and anti-fascist resistance should inform analyses of cultural production in Caribbean and Atlantic insular spaces. \u003ci\u003eOn Tropical Grounds\u003c\/i\u003e develops a persuasive critical model for the investigation of politically and aesthetically situated archipelagic relations that transgresses disciplinary boundaries and reconfigures our conception of the avant-garde as a global movement that was overdetermined by racial, gender, and colonial conflicts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book will be of value to anyone interested in Caribbean and Atlantic studies, avant-garde and visual culture studies, and literary and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFigures ix \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword – Richard Rosa xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: On Tropical Grounds 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Atlantic, Hispanic, Avant-Garde: Archaic Places \/ Non-European Regressions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Around the Atlantic Avant-Garde: Insular Dreamworlds \/ Archaic Islandscapes 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Male Regressions: The Non-Europeans 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Caribbean, Colonial, Avant-Garde: From Poesía Negra to Carceral Romances\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Islands of Desire: A Poetics of Antillean Fragmentation 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Carceral, Island, Nation: Cuban Romances in Photography and Fiction 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Surrealism after France: Crime and Desire from the Canary Islands to the Americas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Surrealism and the Islands: The Practice of Dislocation 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Difficult Dialogues: Surrealism in the Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Preface to the 1950s 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 299\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441814106392,"sku":"9781509561667","price":47.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509561667.jpg?v=1785026879","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/on-tropical-grounds-avant-garde-and-surrealism-in-the-insular-atlantic-hardback-9781509561667","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}