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... considers the case of Haitian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, and suggests that this, one of the oldest Francophone literary traditions, can be thought of as a precursor to “littérature-monde.” Focusing on questions of language, style, and relationships with the metropole, the paper situates...

...Keithley Woolward Directly engaging the recent manifesto and essay collection calling for a world literature in French, this article considers the creolized, hybrid forms of geopolitical and discursive belonging of the Francophone Caribbean participants as a useful starting point for such a project...

..., and linguistic borders of postcolonial literature. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 The Ambivalent Transnationalism of a Literature-World—in French Kaiama L. Glover Like the diagnosis of an illness with regard to the doctor, the analysis of the manifesto is empowering for the critic. The manifesto appeals...

..., “World Literature,” and the Persistence of the Political Charles Forsdick Postcolonial critics customarily present Edward Said as a foundational figure in their field, yet repeated claims to “ownership” along these lines contradict Said’s protestations, often expressed in interviews...

...Glyne Griffith Deconstructing Nationalisms: Henry Swanzy, Caribbean Voices and the Development of West Indian Literature Glyne Griffi th etween 1943 and 1958, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), through its General Overseas Service, produced a radio program...

... literatures in a comparative Caribbbean studies framework. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 colonialism Caribbean confederation 1898 criollismo creole I began my engagement in Caribbean studies precisely by expanding my horizons beyond my specific interest in Puerto Rican literature and by proposing...

...: the spiral and quantum writing . ©2008 Small Axe Incorporated. All rights reserved. 2008 Haitian Revolutions in Literature: The Case of Linguistic and Visual Inventiveness in Frankétienne Rachel Douglas Ab s t r a c t : This article argues that there is a conspicuous lack...

...L. Camille van der Marel This essay examines the relationship between debt and memory that is emerging in contemporary calls for reparation and Caribbean Canadian literature. CARICOM's and Ta-Nehisi Coates's discussions of reparatory justice, as well as David Chariandy's Soucouyant and Ramabai...

... Haitian writers are, in fact, what we could call becoming -France/ becoming -Paris. Questioning the phenomenon of postcolonial star formations, as delineated by Graham Huggan and Chris Bongie, the essay also examines the inescapability of extra-literary factors, where Haitian literature is concerned...

..., “‘The History That Made Me’: The Making and Self-Making of V. S. Naipaul,” Anthurium 5, no. 2 (2007): para. 2, anthurium.miami.edu/volume_5/issue_2/baugh-history.html . 19 Baugh, introduction to Critics on Caribbean Literature , 14; Baugh quotes Edward [Kamau] Brathwaite, “Roots” Bim , no. 37 (1963...

... realities of economic markets and measures and caught between national and international belongings. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 federation West Indian literature Caribbean regionalism belonging aesthetic In as much as the late nineteenth-century Antillean Confederation...

...Simona Bertacco This essay weaves together translation and postcolonial literary studies to propose a translational model of reading for Caribbean literature. Translation and creolization provide the conceptual and aesthetic lens for reading Caribbean literary texts: If translation is an apt model...

... and intellectuals. 1 The text is a generative, though by no means unvexed, reflection on the networks of Cuban and Caribbean literature, politics, and racial identity, and it is for that reason that our contributors return to it here. Completed in 1980 and published in 1982, the year of Nicolás Guillén’s...

... of outstanding work. In his youth, Morris was the beneficiary of the most elite education available, which included a Rhodes Scholarship. This education is all the more remarkable because, at that time, Caribbean literature was virtually unknown to many, and the literature and its writers, especially...

... skepticism , which approached the absurdity of the current conjuncture by deploying critical distance to cast doubt on the past, the present, and the very idea of single-island sovereign futures. The author resituates this independence era's literature by identifying its multitudinous plotlines that included...

...Lowell Fiet Work on Sargasso as an independent journal of Caribbean literature, language, and culture began at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in 1983. After a successful, but not uncomplicated, launching of its first issue in 1984, the journal received support and contributions from important...

...Raphael Dalleo It has become commonplace to acknowledge that alongside the development of a powerful labor movement and the nation's first political party, Jamaica's literature came into its own during the 1930s and 1940s. This article explores how the different kind of work carried out in two...

...Carlos Ulises Decena In this essay, Decena follows Maja Horn's invitation to move historical and literary analysis of Dominican literature away from the masculine ideation mapped in her pioneering Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (2014). Through...

...Dashiell Moore In Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere (2011), Raphael Dalleo draws on the concept of the field to note that Caribbean writers often “operate within a constrained set of possibilities governed by certain historically determined rules . . . from accommodation to opposition...

...Barbara Lalla This essay reviews Belinda Edmondson’s literary yet cross-disciplinary study Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance (2022), which questions the Blackness of orality versus the Whiteness of narrative in the growth of Caribbean literature. Caribbean language...