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The Imaginary is everywhere in representations of the Caribbean Islands and their people and has been ever since their discoverers dreamt themselves arriving, triumphant, in the Indies. This book poses a provocative question: When the Imaginary occupies the place of the Real, as in Caribbean culture and European projections of that culture, how does the Real position itself? Michele Praeger seeks an answer by bringing the Caribbean discourses of French traditional criticism and American social sciences, particularly history and psychoanalysis, into conversation with the imaginings of the...

Michele Praeger's three previous lives read like a French childhood memoir, an absurdist comedy, and a Henry James novel. In her present life, she lives and writes in San Francisco. "Michele Praeger's debut collection of flash fiction takes you on unexpected journeys. Her stories are brilliant little jewels, which never go quite where you expect them to. I love the French existentialism juxtaposed with joie de vivre in these stories. Delightful to read " -Diane Frank, Author of Blackberries in the Dream House and Yoga of the Impossible "Michele Praeger's flash fiction stories are little...