Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Charting the Caribbean as a Literary Region xiii
4. Hispanic literature
5. Introduction 3
6. Language, Popular and Literate Cultures, Regions
7. The History of Literary Language 9
8. Popular and Literate Cultures
9. Education in the Hispanic Antilles 27
10. Listening to the Reader: The Working-Class Cultural Project in Cuba and Puerto Rico 35
11. Islands and Territories
12. Dominican Literature and Its Criticism: Anatomy of a Troubled Identity 49
13. Colombian Literature 65
14. West Indian Writing in Central America 75
15. North of the Caribbean: An Outline for a History of Spanish-Caribbean Literature in the United States 85
16. Afterword 95
17. Literary Genres
18. Introduction 101
19. The Colonial Period to the Early Nineteenth Century (All Genres)
20. Colonial Voices of the Hispanic Caribbean 111
21. From Romanticism Through Modernismo and Naturalism
22. Fiction 141
23. The Poetic Production of Cuba, Puerto Rico and The Dominican Republic in the Nineteenth Century 155
24. The Twentieth Century
25. The Novel 177
26. The Short Story in the Hispanic Antilles 191
27. The Caribbean's Contribution to the Boom 209
28. Poetry 221
29. The Theater 239
30. The Essay 263
31. Literature and Politics in the Cuban Revolution: The Historical Image 283
32. Conclusions 295
33. Francophone literature
34. Introduction 309
35. Language, Popular and Literate Cultures, Regions
36. The Formation and Evolution of a Literary Discourse: One, Two, or Three Literatures? 317
37. Popular and Literate Cultures
38. Literature and Folklore in the Francophone Caribbean 341
39. The Caribbean in Metropolitan French Writing 349
40. Islands and Territories
41. Haitian Sensibility 365
42. Martinique and Guadeloupe: Time and Space 379
43. French Guiana 389
44. Conclusions 399
45. Literary Genres
46. Introduction 407
47. The Novel
48. Novels of Social and Political Protest to the 1950s 415
49. A New Cry: From the 1960s to the 1980s 427
50. Realism Redefined: The Subjective Vision 435
51. Exile and Recent Literature 451
52. Poetry
53. Poetry Before Negritude 465
54. Negritude: Then and Now 479
55. New Voices 485
56. Theater
57. Marronnage and the Canon: Theater to the Negritude Era 507
58. Toward créolité: Postnegritude Developments 517
59. Essay
60. Before and Beyond Negritude 529
61. Colonialism as Neurosis: Frantz Fanon 547
62. The Essay and / in History 559
63. Index to Names 567