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and in the everyday lives of citizens

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On Tropical Grounds no-tag such as whether to seekOn Tropical Grounds 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