Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial Contributor(s): Dalleo, Raphael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813931991 ISBN-13: 9780813931999 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $32.18 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American |
Dewey: 809.897 |
LCCN: 2011022865 |
Series: New World Studies (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (0.95 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 structures have produced different sets of possibilities for writers to imagine their relationship to the institutions of the public sphere. In the process, he provides a new context for rereading such major writers as Mary Seacole, Jos Mart , Jacques Roumain, Claude McKay, Marie Chauvet, and George Lamming, while also drawing lesser-known figures into the story. Dalleo's comparative approach will be important to Caribbeanists from all of the region's linguistic traditions, and his book contributes even more broadly to debates in Latin American and postcolonial studies about postmodernity and globalization. |