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050 00 $aPN849.C3$bT67 1997
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100 1 $aTorres-Saillant, Silvio.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93074236
245 10 $aCaribbean poetics :$btoward an aesthetic of West Indian literature /$cSilvio Torres-Saillant.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1997.
263 $a9708
300 $axiv, 353 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Unity of Caribbean Literature --$g2.$tToward a Caribbean Poetics --$g3.$tKamau Brathwaite and the Caribbean Word --$g4.$tStages of the Sacred in Rene Depestre --$g5.$tPedro Mir and the Historical Imagination --$g6.$tConclusion: The Caribbean in a Decentralized Literary Order.
520 $aCaribbean 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.
520 8 $aArguing 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 Rene Depestre from Haiti.
520 8 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aWest Indian literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $anw.
852 00 $bglx$hPN849.C3$iT67 1997