In:A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Volume 2: English- and Dutch-speaking regions
Edited by A. James Arnold
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages XV] 2001
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 23 July 2001
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Table of contents
Acknowledgmentsix
Charting the Caribbean as a Literary Region
Introduction
Literary Development: A Contrastive History21
Emergence of Language and Literature23
Language Use in West Indian Literature
Popular and Literate Cultures39
The Institution of Literature
Islands and Territories67
The Literatures of Trinidad and Jamaica
Guyanese Identities
Genre: A Contrastive History111
Fiction113
The Novel before 1950
The Novel from 1950 to 1970
The Novel since 1970
Short Fiction
Poetry225
A History of Poetry
Drama283
Theatralizing the Anglophone Caribbean, 1492 to the 1980s
Essay327
The Essay
Prospecting the Field: A Contrastive History of Literary Development353
Introduction
Emergence of Language and Literature365
Notes on Early Printing in the Dutch Caribbean Islands
Ideological Controversies in Curaçaoan Publishing Strategies (1900–1945)
The Literary Infrastructure of Suriname: Problems and Changes
Language and Popular Culture397
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
Islands and Territories431
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
A Mosaic Setting: A Contrastive History of Genre469
Introduction
Overview479
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
Fiction525
The Contemporary Surinamese Novel
Surinamese Short Narrative
Poetry561
Literary Magazines and Poetry in the Netherlands Antilles
The Surinamese Muse: Reflections on Poetry
East Indian Surinamese Poetry and its Languages
Drama
Forms of Dramatic Expression in the Leeward Islands
Banya, a Surviving Surinamese Slave Play
Literary Magazines
Civilisadó: A Doomed Civilizing Offensive in Curaçao, 1871-1875
Prewar Prose and Poetry in Papiamentu
Literary Criticism
Antillean Literary Criticism: Caribbean vs. Dutch Approaches
Conclusions
Index to Names of Writers and Significant Historical Figures
