Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Heredity and Discursivity: From Pre-History to the Plantation; Chapter Two Misce-gene-nation: Heredity and the Rise of Pluralism in Caribbean Narrative; Chapter Three Talking Flowers and Flowering People: Narrative, Plant Genetics, and Caribbean Identity; Chapter Four Bound Bodies: The Struggle in Caribbean Narrative Against Biological Determinism; Chapter Five Hybridity and Its Mysteries: Heredity, Intertextuality, and Cultural Identity in the Caribbean
Summary
In this book, Rudyard Alcocer offers a theory of Caribbean narrative, accounting for the complex interactions between scientific and literary discourses while expanding the horizons of narrative studies in general
