| Description |
1 online resource (598 pages) |
| Contents |
A HISTORY OF LITERATURE IN THE CARIBBEAN; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; GENERAL PREFACE; Acknowledgments; Table of contents; Charting the Caribbean as a Literary Region; HISPANIC LITERATURE; Introduction; Language, Popular and Literate Cultures, Regions; The History of Literary Language; Popular and Literate Cultures; Educationin the Hispanic Antilles; Listening to the Reader: The Working-Class Cultural Project in Cuba and Puerto Rico; Islands and Territories; Dominican Literature and Its Criticism: Anatomy of a Troubled Identity; Colombian Literature |
| Summary |
This history for the first time charts the literature of the entire Caribbean, the islands as well as continental littoral, as one cultural region. It breaks new ground in establishing a common grid for reading literatures that have been kept separate by their linguistic frontiers. Readers will have access to the best current scholarship on the evolution of popular and literate cultures in the various regions since their earliest emergence. The History of Literature in the Caribbean brings together the most distinguished team of literary Caribbeanists ever assembled, cutting across ideological |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rodriguez-Luis, Julio
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Dash, J. Michael
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| ISBN |
9789027284754 |
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902728475X |
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1283121794 |
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9781283121798 |
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