The Creole Languages of the Caribbean

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Charting the Caribbean as a Literary Region 1
5. Part I. The Anglophone Caribbean
6. Introduction 9
7. Literary Development: A Contrastive History
8. Emergence of Language and Literature
9. Language Use in West Indian Literature 25
10. Popular and Literate Cultures
11. The Institution of Literature 41
12. Islands and Territories
13. The Literatures of Trinidad and Jamaica 69
14. Guyanese Identities 97
15. Genre: A Contrastive History
16. Fiction
17. The Novel before 1950 115
18. The Novel from 1950 to 1970 127
19. The Novel since 1970 149
20. Short Fiction 199
21. Poetry
22. A History of Poetry 227
23. Drama
24. Theatralizing the Anglophone Caribbean, 1492 to the 1980s 285
25. Essay
26. The Essay 329
27. Part II. The Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, and Suriname
28. Prospecting the Field: A Contrastive History of Literary Development
29. Introduction 355
30. Emergence of Language and Literature
31. Notes on Early Printing in the Dutch Caribbean Islands 367
32. Ideological Controversies in Curaçaoan Publishing Strategies (1900–1945) 375
33. The Literary Infrastructure of Suriname 387
34. Language and Popular Culture
35. The Creole Languages of the Caribbean 399
36. The Value of Guene for Folklore and Literary Culture 415
37. Song Texts as Literature of Daily Life in the Netherlands Antilles 421
38. Islands and Territories
39. Katibu ta galiña 433
40. From Oral to Written Literature 443
41. Di nos e ta! 451
42. Conclusions 463
43. A Mosaic Setting: A Contrastive History of Genre
44. Introduction 471
45. Overview
46. West Indian Slavery and Dutch Enlightenment Literature 481
47. The Portuguese Jewish Nation 491
48. Curaçaoan Literature in Spanish 505
49. Strategies and Stratagems of some Dutch-Antillean Writers 513
50. Fiction
51. The Contemporary Surinamese Novel 527
52. Surinamese Short Narrative 543
53. Poetry
54. Literary Magazines and Poetry in the Netherlands Antilles 563
55. The Surinamese Muse 569
56. East Indian Surinamese Poetry and its Languages 581
57. Drama
58. Forms of Dramatic Expression in the Leeward Islands 597
59. Banya , a Surviving Surinamese Slave Play 615
60. Literary Magazines
61. Civilisadó : A Doomed Civilizing Offensive in Curaçao, 1871-1875 625
62. Prewar Prose and Poetry in Papiamentu 633
63. Literary Criticism
64. Antillean Literary Criticism 645
65. Conclusions 651
66. Index to Names of Writers and Significant Historical Figures 659