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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 I. Seeing the Caribbean Whole Beyond a Critical Insularity 13 Raza, racismo, e historia: “Are All My Bones from There?” 27 Nationalism, Nation, and Ideology: Trends in the Emergence of a Caribbean Literature 49 Seeing Fragments/Whole 101 II. Notes of a ’Nother Rican Sojourners, Settlers, Castaways, and Creators: Of Puerto Rico Past and Puerto Ricans Present 115 One Boricua’s Baldwin 137 Boricuas, Jíbaras, and Jibaristas: Of Memory, Memoir, and Mimicry 159 III. Occasions, Views, and Reviews “Soul of a Continent” 169 A Poet’s Century 180 The Stoic and the Sisyphean: John Hearne and the Angel of History 189 Grenada: History, Neocolonialism, and Culture in the Contemporary Caribbean 228 El Señor Presidente 243 “The Pirate Ambush of Remorse” 247 Index 253 xiii Contents ...

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