Table of Contents

1. Charting the Caribbean as a Literary Region (by Arnold, A. James); 2. Hispanic literature (edited by Rodriguez-Luis, Julio); 3. Introduction (by Rodriguez-Luis, Julio); 4. Language, Popular and Literate Cultures, Regions; 5. The History of Literary Language (by Lopez Morales, Humberto); 6. Popular and Literate Cultures; 7. Education in the Hispanic Antilles (by Rodriguez-Luis, Julio); 8. Listening to the Reader: The Working-Class Cultural Project in Cuba and Puerto Rico (by Rodriguez Castro, Maria Elena); 9. Islands and Territories; 10. Dominican Literature and Its Criticism: Anatomy of a Troubled Identity (by Torres-Saillant, Silvio); 11. Colombian Literature (by Menton, Seymour); 12. West Indian Writing in Central America (by Smart, Ian I.); 13. North of the Caribbean: An Outline for a History of Spanish-Caribbean Literature in the United States (by Barradas, Efrain); 14. Afterword (by Rodriguez-Luis, Julio); 15. Literary Genres; 16. Introduction (by Rodriguez-Luis, Julio); 17. The Colonial Period to the Early Nineteenth Century (All Genres); 18. Colonial Voices of the Hispanic Caribbean (by Chang-Rodriguez, Raquel); 19. From Romanticism Through Modernismo and Naturalism; 20. Fiction (by Alonso, Carlos J.); 21. The Poetic Production of Cuba, Puerto Rico and The Dominican Republic in the Nineteenth Century (by Schulman, Ivan A.); 22. The Twentieth Century; 23. The Novel (by Siemens, William L.); 24. The Short Story in the Hispanic Antilles (by Luis, William); 25. The Caribbean's Contribution to the Boom (by Pellon, Gustavo); 26. Poetry (by Bejel, Emilio); 27. The Theater (by Cypess, Sandra M.); 28. The Essay (by Earle, Peter); 29. Literature and Politics in the Cuban Revolution: The Historical Image (by Mendez Rodenas, Adriana); 30. Conclusions (by Rodriguez-Luis, Julio); 31. Francophone literature (edited by Dash, J. Michael); 32. Introduction (by Dash, J. Michael); 33. Language, Popular and Literate Cultures, Regions; 34. The Formation and Evolution of a Literary Discourse: One, Two, or Three Literatures? (by Fleischmann, Ulrich); 35. Popular and Literate Cultures; 36. Literature and Folklore in the Francophone Caribbean (by Laroche, Maximilien); 37. The Caribbean in Metropolitan French Writing (by Antoine, Regis); 38. Islands and Territories; 39. Haitian Sensibility (by Hoffmann, Leon-Francois); 40. Martinique and Guadeloupe: Time and Space (by Hezekiah, Randolph); 41. French Guiana (by Jones, Bridget); 42. Conclusions (by Dash, J. Michael); 43. Literary Genres; 44. Introduction (by Dash, J. Michael); 45. The Novel; 46. Novels of Social and Political Protest to the 1950s (by Case, Frederick Ivor); 47. A New Cry: From the 1960s to the 1980s (by Shelton, Marie-Denise); 48. Realism Redefined: The Subjective Vision (by Ormerod, Beverley); 49. Exile and Recent Literature (by Dash, J. Michael); 50. Poetry; 51. Poetry Before Negritude (by Corzani, Jack); 52. Negritude: Then and Now (by Arnold, A. James); 53. New Voices (by Morrison, Anthea); 54. Theater; 55. Marronnage and the Canon: Theater to the Negritude Era (by Silenieks, Juris); 56. Toward creolite: Postnegritude Developments (by Silenieks, Juris); 57. Essay; 58. Before and Beyond Negritude (by Dash, J. Michael); 59. Colonialism as Neurosis: Frantz Fanon (by Knight, Vere); 60. The Essay and / in History (by Arnold, A. James); 61. Index to Names