British empire, 4, 8, 26, 29, 44, 63, 65, 154, 177, 318

broken memory [la memoria rota], 200, 202

Bush, George W., 2, 12–13, 242, 296

Cacique, 204

Central American Free Trade Agreement-Dominican Republic (CAFTA-DR), 218, 220, 232, 236, 332

capitalism, 2, 50, 86, 97, 111, 113, 115, 124, 126, 135, 137, 185–186, 220–221, 231, 291, 298, 300–303, 309, 312, 319, 323

Caribbean

Caribbean Discourse, 134–135, 149, 180, 183, 325

Caribbean island, 8, 178, 213

Caribbean literature, 186, 189, 342

Caribbean region, 8, 185

Casement, Roger

relation with Joseph Conrad, 10, 260, 264–266, 269, 271, 335

Castellanos, Juan de, 204, 212, 214

Ceiba, 207–208, 330–331

Central America, 217–224, 227–229, 231–234, 236–237, 332–334

Chamoiseau, Patrick

Texaco, 174–175, 178, 187–188, 190–191

chaos theory, 179, 191

child(ren)

child abuse, 51–52

child barter, 52–53

child labor, 48–49

child nurturing, 49

child snatching, 49

child(ren) (continued )

children’s rights, 5, 47, 49

as hostage(s), 48

mixed-race children, 48–49, 53

See also pedophilia

citizenship, 5, 48, 64–65, 73, 143, 213, 277, 313, 331, 337

U.S. Citizenship, 311, 332

civil war, 66, 79, 86, 90, 95, 218, 222, 224, 228, 274, 277

class, 36, 39, 48, 52, 65, 105, 156, 176, 220, 228, 267, 298–300, 318

Cold War, 11, 79, 173, 185, 201

colonialism

colonial administrations, 185, 202–203

colonialist discourse, 38

See also light colonialism

colonization, 1, 9, 14, 26, 43, 63, 124, 162, 205, 212, 322

See also decolonization

colony, 106, 181, 184

“coming out”, 12, 262–263, 274, 296, 298, 311

See also gay(ness)

Congo, 19, 26, 264–265

Conrad, Joseph

Nostromo, 242–269

consumerism, 113, 300

cosmopolitan(ism), 139, 142–143, 257

Creole, 50, 134, 188, 332

Creolization, 136, 180

cross-dressing, 189

Cuba, 8, 179, 189, 331

cultural identity, 179, 203

decolonization, 173, 176, 178, 186–187, 192, 203, 328

See also colonization