Caribbean literature and the public sphere : from the plantation to the postcolonial

Caribbean literature and the public sphere : from the plantation to the postcolonial / Raphael Dalleo.

"Bringing together the most exciting recent archival work in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean studies, Raphael Dalleo constructs a new literary history of the region that is both comprehensive and innovative. He examines how changes in political, economic, and social structur...

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Main Author: Dalleo, Raphael (Author)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, ©2011.
Series:New World studies.
Subjects:
Geschichte.
Caribbean literature > History and criticism.
Postcolonialism > Caribbean Area.
Politics and literature > Caribbean Area.
Public opinion > Caribbean Area.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Caribbean literature.
Intellectual life.
Politics and literature.
Postcolonialism.
Public opinion.
Geistesleben
Kolonialismus
Literatur
Postkolonialismus
Öffentlicher Raum
Caribbean Area > Intellectual life.
Caribbean Area.
Karibik
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Periodizing the public sphere
  • pt. 1. The rise of the Caribbean literary public sphere, 1804 to 1886
  • The abolitionist public sphere and the republic of the lettered
  • The public sphere unbound: Michel Maxwell Philip, El laúd del desterrado, and Mary Seacole
  • pt. 2. Modern colonialism and the anticolonial public sphere, 1886 to 1959
  • The intellectual and the man of action: resolving literary anxiety in the work of José Martí, Stephen Cobham, and Jacques Roumain
  • The ideology of the literary: Claude McKay's Banana bottom and the little magazines of the 1940s
  • pt. 3. Postcoloniality and the crisis of the literary public sphere, 1959 to 1983
  • The expulsion from the public sphere: the novels of Marie Chauvet
  • Anticolonial authority and the postcolonial occasion for speaking: George Lamming and Martin Carter
  • The testimonial impulse: Miguel Barnet and the Sistren Theatre Collective
  • Cultural studies and the commodified public: Luis Rafael Sánchez's La guaracha del macho camacho and Earl Lovelace's The dragon can't dance
  • Conclusion: the postcolonial public sphere.

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