Haiti and Trans-Caribbean Literary Identity/Haiti y la transcaribenidad literaria - Tapa blanda

Literary Nonfiction. Caribbean Studies. Bilingual edition. Translated from the Spanish by Maria Teresa Ortega. "With an alert look at the secret rhizomatic connections of Haiti's cultural legacy, this keen and excellent book discloses important areas of convergence of the peoples in the region." Margarita Mateo Palmer

"In this work, we have a remarkable collection of essays on comparative literature in which principles have been renewed and implementation adapted to our Caribbean context." Maximilien Laroche Haiti and Trans-Caribbean Literary Identity/Haiti y la transcaribe idad literaria Haiti and Trans-Caribbean Literary Identity/Haiti y la transcaribenidad literaria"

Emilio Jorge Rodriguez is a Cuban essayist and literary critic. The Havana University graduate is a former director of Casa de las Americas Center of Caribbean Studies, where he was also a researcher from 1979 to 2000. Rodriguez founded and edited Anales del Caribe from 1981 to 2000. He has lectured at universities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the USA. Rodriguez is the author of Literatura caribena; bojeo y cuaderno de bitacora (1989) and Acriollamiento y discurso escrit/oral cariben (2001). He has edited several anthologies of Caribbean writers, and has contributed essays to numeous books, including America Latina: Palavra, Literatura e Cultura (1995), A History of Literature in the Caribbean (1997), and Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature (2006). Most recently, he is author of HAITI AND TRANS-CARIBBEAN LITERARY IDENTITY/HAITI Y LA TRANSCARIBENIDAD LITERARIA (House of Nehesi Publishers, 2011).