English- and Dutch-speaking regions / edited by A. James Arnold ; at-large editors: Josephine V. Arnold, Natalie M. Houston, Irene Rolfes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arnold, A. James (Albert James), 1939-

Kutzinski, Vera M., 1956-

Phaf-Rheinberger, Ineke.

Series:

Comparative history of literatures in European languages; v. 10.

A comparative history of literatures in European languages = Histoire comparee des litteratures de langues europeennes, 0238-0668 ; v. 15

A history of literature in the Caribbean ; v.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean literature--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 672 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; [Great Britain] : J. Benjamins, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Sugar's 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.

Contents:

A HISTORY OF LITERATURE IN THE CARIBBEAN

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Charting the Caribbean as a Literary Region

Introduction

Language Use in West Indian Literature

The Institution of Literature

The Literatures of Trinidad and Jamaica

Guyanese Identities

The Novel before 1950

The Novel from 1950 to 1970

The Novel since 1970

Short Fiction

A History of Poetry

Theatralizing the Anglophone Caribbean, 1492 to the 1980s

The Essay

Notes on Early Printing in the Dutch Caribbean Islands

Ideological Controversies in Curaçaoan Publishing Strategies (1900-1945)

The Literary Infrastructure of Suriname

The Creole Languages of the Caribbean

The Value of Guene for Folklore and Literary Culture

Song Texts as Literature of Daily Life in the Netherlands Antilles

Katibu ta galiña: From Hidden to Open Protest in Curaçao

From Oral to Written Literature: St.Maarten,Saba,and St.Eustatius

Di nos e ta!: Outside and Inside in Aruban Literature

Conclusions

West Indian Slavery and Dutch Enlightenment Literature

The Portuguese Jewish Nation: An Enlightenment Essay on the Colony of Suriname

Curaçaoan Literature in Spanish

Strategies and Stratagems of some Dutch-Antillean Writers

The Contemporary Surinamese Novel

Surinamese Short Narrative

Literary Magazines and Poetry in the Netherlands Antilles

The Surinamese Muse: Reflections on Poetry

East Indian Surinamese Poetry and Its Languages

Forms of Dramatic Expression in the Leeward Islands

Banya, a Surviving Surinamese Slave Play

Civilisadó: A Doomed Civilizing Offensive in Curaçao,1871 -1875

Prewar Prose and Poetry in Papiamentu

Antillean Literary Criticism: Caribbean vs.Dutch Approaches

Conclusions.

Index to Names of Writers and Significant Historical Figures.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612254833

9789027298331

9027298335

9781282254831

1282254839

9780585461816

0585461813

OCLC:

191926550

Publisher Number:

9781588110411