Index to Names

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Charting the Caribbean as a Literary Region xii
4. Preliminary Approaches
5. Mapping the Caribbean 3
6. Islands, Enclaves, Continua 29
7. The Cross-Cultural Unity of Caribbean Literature 57
8. Literary Creoleness and Chaos Theory
9. Chaos and Rhizome 79
10. Resistance and Globalization in Caribbean Discourse 87
11. Problematics of Literary Historiography
12. A Comparative Analysis of Caribbean Literary Magazines: 1960–1980 119
13. History is Bunk! Recovering the Meaning of Independence in Venezuela, Colombia, and Curaçao 161
14. Literature and Popular Culture
15. Oral Tradition and New Literary Canon in Caribbean Poetry 177
16. When the Popular Sings the Self 187
17. Carnival and Carnivalization
18. Caribbean Culture 203
19. Writers Playin' Mas' 215
20. Gender and Identity
21. New World Seductions and Old World Seducers 239
22. Closure and Disclosure of the Caribbean Body 251
23. Anglophone and Francophone Fiction by Caribbean Women 267
24. The Caliban Complex
25. The Cult of Caliban 285
26. (Post) Modernity and Caribbean Discourse 303
27. Genre and Postcoloniality
28. From Prince to Lorde 325
29. Caribbean Sublime 339
30. Cross-Cultural Currents and Conundrums
31. D. H. Lawrence and Alejo Carpentier 351
32. Caribbean Negritude and Africa 357
33. Republican Code, Working Conditions, and Cross-Cultural Hybridity in the Literature of Suriname and Cuba 375
34. Index to Names 393