How Long to Read The Repeating Island

How Long Does it Take to Read The Repeating Island?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 12 minutes to read The Repeating Island by Antonio Benitez-Rojo

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Benítez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benítez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean—the area’s discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics—there emerges an “island” of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Benítez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillén, Carpentier, García Márquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodríguez Juliá.

How long is The Repeating Island?

The Repeating Island by Antonio Benitez-Rojo is 371 pages long, and a total of 93,121 words.

This makes it 125% the length of the average book. It also has 114% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Repeating Island Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 28 minutes to read The Repeating Island aloud.

What Reading Level is The Repeating Island?

The Repeating Island is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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