Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time

This book demonstrates the material, political, and aesthetic dimensions of Pan-Caribbean literary discourse in magazine texts by Suzanne and Aimé Césaire, Nicolás Guillén, José Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier, George Lamming, Derek Walcott and their contemporaries. Thus far, the canonical centrality of literary magazines to Caribbean literature, politics, and social theory has been obscured. Up against the global book industry, Caribbean literary magazines have waged a guerrilla pursuit for the terms of Caribbean representation.

List of contents

List of Maps

1 Location Writing in Magazine Time

2 Locating a Poetics of Freedom in Tropiques

3 Gaceta del Caribe v. Orígenes in Cuba: Black Aesthetics as Battleground

4 Bim Becomes West Indian

5 Polycentric Maps of Literary Worldmaking

Epilogue: The Bridge Goes Up / The Bridge Falls Down

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Cited

Index

 

About the author

KATERINA GONZALEZ SELIGMANN is an associate professor in the Department of Literatures, Cultures, & Languages at the University of Connecticut.

 

Product details

• Authors: Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781978822429
• ISBN: 978-1-978822-42-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Critical Caribbean Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous