Caribbean literature and the public sphere
Subtitle: from the plantation to the postcolonial
By: Raphael Dalleo
Series: New world studies
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780813931982; 9780813931999; 9780813932026
Subjects: Public opinion; Politics and literature; Intellectual life; Caribbean literature; History and criticism; Postcolonialism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Periodizing the public sphere; title: Pt. 1. The rise of the Caribbean literary public sphere, 1804 to 1886; title: The abolitionist public sphere and the republic of the lettered; title: The public sphere unbound: Michel Maxwell Philip, El laúd del desterrado, and Mary Seacole; title: Pt. 2. Modern colonialism and the anticolonial public sphere, 1886 to 1959; title: The intellectual and the man of action: resolving literary anxiety in the work of José Martí, Stephen Cobham, and Jacques Roumain; title: The ideology of the literary: Claude McKay's Banana bottom and the little magazines of the 1940s; title: Pt. 3. Postcoloniality and the crisis of the literary public sphere, 1959 to 1983; title: The expulsion from the public sphere: the novels of Marie Chauvet; title: Anticolonial authority and the postcolonial occasion for speaking: George Lamming and Martin Carter; title: The testimonial impulse: Miguel Barnet and the Sistren Theatre Collective; title: Cultural studies and the commodified public: Luis Rafael Sánchez's La guaracha del macho camacho and Earl Lovelace's The dragon can't dance; title: Conclusion: the postcolonial public sphere.