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[email protected] Instituto de Estudios del Caribe Puerto Rico Kuwabong, Dannabang Jason Frydman. 2014. Sounding the Break: African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. ISBN: 978-0-8139-3573-7. Pp. i- viii; 1-184. Caribbean Studies, vol. 43, núm. 2, julio-diciembre, 2015, pp. 300-303 Instituto de Estudios del Caribe San Juan, Puerto Rico Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=39249077016 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative 300 Jason Frydman. 2014. Sounding the Break: African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature . Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. ISBN: 978-0-8139-3573-7. Pp. i- v iii; 1-184. Dannabang Kuwabong English Department-Faculty of Humanities University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus San Juan, PR 00931
[email protected] ason Frydman’s Sounding the Break African American and Carib- Jbean Routes of World Literature is a fresh intervention in the often absolutist Eurocentric genealogy of world literature grafted on the clas- sical periods in Greece and Rome. He questions absence of pre-Greco- Roman civilizations of Africa from which these classical Greco-Roman civilizations, were offshoots. Citing the arguments of African diaspora philosophers such as Samuel R. Delany, W.E.B. Du Bois, among others, Frydman advances an alternative reading of the evolution, growth and spread of world literature from palimpsestic, rhizomatic, and symbiotic perspectives.