In Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture “Landscapes, Narratives, and Tropical Nature: Creole Modernity in Suriname” by Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger she discusses topics such as: Elisabeth Samson, Wilhelmina Rijurg (Maxi Linder), kankantri, polyphony, and polysemy. The conflict is present in Creole modernity in Suriname and tropical nature, because of the narratives that Cynthia McLeod, Clark Accord, and Astrid Roemer present.
Elisabeth Samson is an African American woman, and she was born in 1715. Rheinberger discusses what McLeod said about Samson, “this book is based on the life story of an exceptional black women in the eighteenth century, Elisabeth Samson. Mcleod’s research on Elisabeth Samson reveals that she…