Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial

Contents

Contents Preface vii Introduction: Periodizing the Public Sphere 1 Part One: The Rise of the Caribbean Literary Public Sphere, 1804 to 1886 1 The Abolitionist Public Sphere and the Republic of the Lettered 21 2 The Public Sphere Unbound: Michel Maxwell Philip, El laúd del desterrado, and Mary Seacole 44 Part Two: Modern Colonialism and the Anticolonial Public Sphere, 1886 to 1959 3 The Intellectual and the Man of Action: Resolving Literary Anxiety in the Work of José Martí, Stephen Cobham, and Jacques Roumain 69 4 The Ideology of the Literary: Claude McKay’s Banana Bottom and the Little Magazines of the 1940s 96 Part Three: Postcoloniality and the Crisis of the Literary Public Sphere, 1959 to 1983 5 The Expulsion from the Public Sphere: The Novels of Marie Chauvet 125 vi Contents 6 Anticolonial Authority and the Postcolonial Occasion for Speaking: George Lamming and Martin Carter 152 7 The Testimonial Impulse: Miguel Barnet and the Sistren Theatre Collective 175 8 Cultural Studies and the Commodified Public: Luis Rafael Sánchez’s La guaracha del Macho Camacho and Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance 199 Conclusion: The Postcolonial Public Sphere 225 Notes 241 Works Cited 269 Index 289 ...