Table of Contents:
  • Chapter One: Shards of an ancient pastoral: The postcolonial sublime; the eighteenth century romantic landscape; The possibility of the postcolonial romantic
  • Chapter Two: Trenchtown rock: Jamaica Kincaid's unreal beauty; The romantic education of Jamaica Kincaid; Early mode of the "empty" colonial landscape; Emergent ideas fo landscape; Landscape as colonial artifact, landscape as place
  • Chapter Three: Once out of nature: Garrett Hongo's postcolonial poetic; The conservative postmodern; Poetry of the unchronicled; A book of origins
  • Chapter Four: His company of visionaries: Derek Walcott and the education of the postcolonial; The problem of inheritance; The apprentice mimic
  • Chapter Five: that's all them bastards have left us, words: The melancholy of the postcolonial romantic; Trauma and the postcolonial romantic; "The Harbour": a first case; Postcolonial romantic; The returning prodigal.