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Caribbean poetics : towards an aesthetic of West Indian literature / Silvio Torres-Saillant.

Title
Caribbean poetics : towards an aesthetic of West Indian literature / Silvio Torres-Saillant.
Author
Torres-Saillant, Silvio
Publication
Leeds, England : Peepal Tree, 2013.

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Description
420 pages; 25 cm.
Alternative Title
Towards an aesthetic of West Indian literature
Subject
  • Brathwaite, Kamau, 1930-2020 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Depestre, René > Criticism and interpretation
  • Mir, Pedro > Criticism and interpretation
  • West Indian literature > History and criticism
Note
  • First edition published: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-394) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The unity of Caribbean literature -- Towards a Caribbean poetics -- Kamau Brathwaite and the Caribbean world -- Stages of the sacred in René Depestre -- Pedro Mir and the historical imagination -- Conclusion : towards a decentralized literary order -- Afterword : Caribbean poetics in a new century.
ISBN
  • 9781845231071
  • 1845231074
OCLC
  • 477280188
  • SCSB-12024683
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library