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Sinopsis
Caribbean Poetics studies the literatures written in European languages in the West Indies as a regionally unified corpus with its own identity, and focuses on the literary works of the Barbadian Kamau Brathwaite, the Haitian René Depestre, and the Dominican Pedro Mir.
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"I did not expect to see, in my lifetime, as authoritative a comparative analysis of island literature as Professor Torres-Saillant has produced....[this book] delimits the confines of its brilliant analysis." Colbert I. Nepaulsingh, Latino Review of Books (Review Forthcoming) "For me, mainly in francophone, this is a useful and most readable eye-opener. Further, the book as a bibliographic treasury merits inclusion in the personal libraries of those interested in any aspect of the Caribbean. Finally, Torres-Saillant is a critical wunderkind. What has he not read within the paramaters of this subject?....Torres-Saillant is certainly a rising star in the firmament of all of literature." Harold A. Waters, World Literature Today .".. a useful and most readable eye-opener. ...merits inclusion in the personal libraries of those interested in any aspect of the Caribbean. ... Caribbean Poetics is a totally admirable work...." Harold A Waters, World Literature Today "These characteristics of Caribbean literature are admirable captured, explained, and defended by Torres-Saillant in his Caribbean Poetics, a comprehensively researched, skillfully organized, and persuasively and elegantly written book. This carefully written and excellent book makes a strong contribution to understanding West Indian literature." Secci^D'on Bibliogr^D'afica
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Caribbean Poetics studies the literatures written in European languages in the West Indies as a regionally unified corpus with its own identity. Torres-Saillant examines recurring thematic motifs and formal devices that Caribbean literary artists have drawn from in the last six decades, isolating their engagement with language, religion, and history as primary components of their cultural discourse. Arguing that West Indian literary texts contain clues to their own explication, the study substantiates the aesthetic autonomy of the region's literary tradition by means of individualized readings of the works of three of its principal figures from three different linguistic blocs: Pedro Mir from the Dominican Republic, Kamau Brathwaite from Barbados, and René Depestre from Haiti. The book places Caribbean literature in the larger context of comparative poetics by discussing the historical, political, and cultural forces that mediate its interaction with other literary systems.
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- EditorialCambridge University Press
- Año de publicación1997
- ISBN 10 0521551250
- ISBN 13 9780521551250
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- Número de páginas367
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