A History of Literature in the Caribbean
Volume 2: English- and Dutch-speaking regions
Editor
| University of Virginia
For the first time the Dutch-speaking regions of the Caribbean and Suriname are brought into fruitful dialogue with another major American literature, that of the anglophone Caribbean. The results are as stimulating as they are unexpected. The editors have coordinated the work of a distinguished international team of specialists.
Read separately or as a set of three volumes, the History of Literature in the Caribbean is designed to serve as the primary reference book in this area. The reader can follow the comparative evolution of a literary genre or plot the development of a set of historical problems under the appropriate heading for the English- or Dutch-speaking region. An extensive index to names and dates of authors and significant historical figures completes the volume.
The subeditors bring to their respective specialty areas a wealth of Caribbeanist experience. Vera M. Kutzinski is Professor of English, American, and Afro-American Literature at Yale University. Her book Sugars Secrets: Race and The Erotics of Cuban Nationalism, 1993, treated a crucial subject in the romance of the Caribbean nation. Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger has been very active in Latin American and Caribbean literary criticism for two decades, first at the Free University in Berlin and later at the University of Maryland. The editor of A History of Literature in the Caribbean, A. James Arnold, is Professor of French at the University of Virginia, where he founded the New World Studies graduate program. Over the past twenty years he has been a pioneer in the historical study of the Négritude movement and its successors in the francophone Caribbean.
Read separately or as a set of three volumes, the History of Literature in the Caribbean is designed to serve as the primary reference book in this area. The reader can follow the comparative evolution of a literary genre or plot the development of a set of historical problems under the appropriate heading for the English- or Dutch-speaking region. An extensive index to names and dates of authors and significant historical figures completes the volume.
The subeditors bring to their respective specialty areas a wealth of Caribbeanist experience. Vera M. Kutzinski is Professor of English, American, and Afro-American Literature at Yale University. Her book Sugars Secrets: Race and The Erotics of Cuban Nationalism, 1993, treated a crucial subject in the romance of the Caribbean nation. Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger has been very active in Latin American and Caribbean literary criticism for two decades, first at the Free University in Berlin and later at the University of Maryland. The editor of A History of Literature in the Caribbean, A. James Arnold, is Professor of French at the University of Virginia, where he founded the New World Studies graduate program. Over the past twenty years he has been a pioneer in the historical study of the Négritude movement and its successors in the francophone Caribbean.
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XV] 2001. x, 672 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins B.V. / Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
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ix
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1–5
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7
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9–19
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Literary Development: A Contrastive History
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21
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Emergence of Language and Literature
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23
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25–37
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Popular and Literate Cultures
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39
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41–66
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Islands and Territories
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67
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69–95
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97–110
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Genre: A Contrastive History
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111
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Fiction
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113
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115–125
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127–148
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149–198
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199–223
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Poetry
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225
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227–282
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Drama
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283
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285–326
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Essay
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327
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329–349
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351
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Prospecting the Field: A Contrastive History of Literary Development
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353
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355–363
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Emergence of Language and Literature
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365
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367–374
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375–385
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387–395
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Language and Popular Culture
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397
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399–414
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415–419
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421–430
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Islands and Territories
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431
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433–442
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443–449
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451–461
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463–468
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A Mosaic Setting: A Contrastive History of Genre
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469
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471–477
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Overview
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479
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481–489
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491–503
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505–512
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513–523
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Fiction
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525
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527–541
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543–560
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Poetry
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561
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563–568
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569–580
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581–594
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Drama
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597–614
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615–622
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Literary Magazines
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625–632
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633–642
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Literary Criticism
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645–650
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651–658
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Index to Names of Writers and Significant Historical Figures
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659–672
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“This is a bold endeavor. The result is an indispensable reference work and a compelling adventure all in one. [...] A number of essays here anthologised in the important, but long-neglected Dutch orbit, are especially useful.”
Gaston Gâtepapier, Bayou Courtablue, Louisiana, in Plantation Society in the Americas, Vol VI, Nos. 2&3 (1999)
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Subjects
Literature & Literary Studies
BIC Subject: DSB – Literary studies: general
BISAC Subject: LIT000000 – LITERARY CRITICISM / General