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  • Essay / The Island That Repeats Itself - 809

    In The Island That Repeats Itself, Antonio Benintez-Rojo writes about post-industrial societies that view the Caribbean as a common archipelago and calls on post-industrial societies to re-examine their view of the Caribbean. In this article, the following topics from TheRepeating Island will be examined to validate Benitez-Rojo's perspective that the Caribbean is a meta-archipelago without borders or center: from Columbus' machine to the sugar machine, from apocalypse to chaos, from rhythm to polyrhythm and literature. at the carnival. The first way in which Benitez-Rojo draws attention to his view is through his analysis of how the Atlantic became known as the Atlantic due to the presence of European slave plantations, piracy, servitude and monopoly on trade in the Caribbean. He refers to the presence of Christopher Columbus in Hispaniola as the starting point of "the machine" (Benitez-Rojo 5) that brought a wealth of goods from Hispaniola to Spain, which then extended its profitable practices to Cuba, to Jamaica and Puerto Rico at the expense of the natives. people (6). After the disaster at Cape San Vicente, where the Spanish lost treasure to French pirates, in 1565 Columbus' machine expanded its conquests of gold, silver and diamonds, creating the fleet. The fleet not only helped the Spanish get rich, but it also made the Caribbean a meta-archipelago due to its presence in the Caribbean, Atlantic, and Pacific waters. Menendezde Avilés' fleet managed to protect gold and silver from pirate attacks through the use of ports, forts, militias, and the geography of the Caribbean (8). In today's Caribbean, "the machine" is called the plantation, of which Europeans controlled every aspect. ..... middle of article ...... witnesses it (23). Benitez-Rojo calls for a rereading of the Caribbean text and asserts that once this is done, the result is the text showing the harmony of the rhythms from which the attempts escape “in a certain way” (28). It is through the carnival that the text can be seen in its most natural form, a meta-archipelago of everyday life. In The Repeating Island, Antonio Benintez-Rojo defends his perspective that the Caribbean is a meta-archipelago without borders or center through his writings on From Columbus' machine to the sugar machine, from apocalypse to chaos, from rhythm to polyrhythm and literature to carnival. It debunks post-industrial society's view that the Caribbean is a common archipelago by examining what makes the Caribbean, the Caribbean through its history and culture, which persuades the reader to re-examine the various writings on the Caribbean..