In The Island That Repeats Itself, Antonio Benintez-Rojo writes about postindustrial societies' inaccurate visions of the Caribbean as a common archipelago and calls on postindustrial societies to reexamine their vision of the Caribbean. In this article, the following arguments 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's machine to the sugar-producing machine, from apocalypse to chaos , from rhythm to polyrhythm and literature. at the carnival. The first way Benitez-Rojo draws attention to his perspective 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 Christopher Columbus' presence on Hispaniola as the starting point of the "machine" (Benitez-Rojo 5) that brought a wealth of goods from Hispaniola to Spain, which then spread its profitable practice to Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico to detriment of the natives. people (6). After the disaster at Cape San Vicente, where the Spanish lost treasures to French pirates, Columbus' machine expanded its conquests of gold, silver and diamonds in 1565, thus creating the fleet. The fleet not only helped the Spanish become wealthy, but made the Caribbean a meta-archipelago due to its presence in Caribbean, Atlantic, and Pacific waters. Menendezde Aviles' fleet proved effective in protecting gold and silver from pirate attacks through the use of Caribbean ports, forts, militias, and geography (8). In today's Caribbean, "the machine" is called the plantation, of which Europeans controlled all aspects. ..... half of the sheet ... followed by it (23). Benitez-Rojo invites us to reread the Caribbean text and states that, once this is done, the result is a text that shows the harmony of rhythms whose attempts to escape "in a certain way" (28). It is through 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 Columbus's machine to the sugar-producing machine, the apocalypse to chaos, the rhythm to polyrhythm and literature to carnival. Dispels the view of post-industrial Caribbean society as a common archipelago by examining what makes the Caribbean, Caribbean through its history and culture, which convinces the reader to re-examine various writings on the Caribbean..
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