A History of Literature in the Caribbean

Volume 2: English- and Dutch-speaking regions

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A. James Arnold | University of Virginia

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For the first time the Dutch-speaking regions of the Caribbean and Suriname are brought into fruitful dialogue with another major American literature, that of the anglophone Caribbean. The results are as stimulating as they are unexpected. The editors have coordinated the work of a distinguished international team of specialists.
Read separately or as a set of three volumes, the History of Literature in the Caribbean is designed to serve as the primary reference book in this area. The reader can follow the comparative evolution of a literary genre or plot the development of a set of historical problems under the appropriate heading for the English- or Dutch-speaking region. An extensive index to names and dates of authors and significant historical figures completes the volume.
The subeditors bring to their respective specialty areas a wealth of Caribbeanist experience. Vera M. Kutzinski is Professor of English, American, and Afro-American Literature at Yale University. Her book Sugar’s Secrets: Race and The Erotics of Cuban Nationalism, 1993, treated a crucial subject in the romance of the Caribbean nation. Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger has been very active in Latin American and Caribbean literary criticism for two decades, first at the Free University in Berlin and later at the University of Maryland. The editor of A History of Literature in the Caribbean, A. James Arnold, is Professor of French at the University of Virginia, where he founded the New World Studies graduate program. Over the past twenty years he has been a pioneer in the historical study of the Négritude movement and its successors in the francophone Caribbean.

This volume is part of a book set which can be ordered at a special discount, see: https://www.benjamins.com/series/chlel/chlel.special_offer_history_of_literature_in_the_caribbean.pdf

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XV] 2001. x, 672 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 January 2003

https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xv

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments | p. ix

Charting the Caribbean as a Literary Region

A. James Arnold | pp. 1–5

Part I: The Anglophone Caribbean

Vera M. Kutzinski | p. 7

Introduction

Vera M. Kutzinski | pp. 9–19

Literary Development: A Contrastive History
Emergence of Language and Literature

Language Use in West Indian Literature

Maureen Warner-Lewis | pp. 25–37

Popular and Literate Cultures

The Institution of Literature

Helen Tiffin | pp. 41–66

Islands and Territories

The Literatures of Trinidad and Jamaica

Sarah Lawson Welsh | pp. 69–95

Guyanese Identities

Josephine V. Arnold | pp. 97–110

Genre: A Contrastive History
Fiction

The Novel before 1950

Joseph Downing Thompson | pp. 115–125

The Novel from 1950 to 1970

Hena Maes-Jelinek | pp. 127–148

The Novel since 1970

Hena Maes-Jelinek and Bénédicte Ledent | pp. 149–198

Short Fiction

Victor J. Ramraj | pp. 199–223

Poetry

A History of Poetry

Edward Baugh | pp. 227–282

Drama

Theatralizing the Anglophone Caribbean, 1492 to the 1980s

Rob Canfield | pp. 285–326

Essay

The Essay

Laura G. Yow | pp. 329–349

Part II: The Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, and Suriname

Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger | p. 351

Prospecting the Field: A Contrastive History of Literary Development

Introduction

Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger | pp. 355–363

Emergence of Language and Literature

Notes on Early Printing in the Dutch Caribbean Islands

Maritza Coomans-Eustatia | pp. 367–374

Ideological Controversies in Curaçaoan Publishing Strategies (1900–1945)

Aart G. Broek | pp. 375–385

The Literary Infrastructure of Suriname: Problems and Changes

Michiel van Kempen | pp. 387–395

Language and Popular Culture

The Creole Languages of the Caribbean

Pieter Muysken | pp. 399–414

The Value of Guene for Folklore and Literary Culture

Frank Martinus Arion | pp. 415–419

Song Texts as Literature of Daily Life in the Netherlands Antilles

Rose Marie Allen | pp. 421–430

Islands and Territories

Katibu ta galiña: From Hidden to Open Protest in Curaçao

Joceline A. Clemencia | pp. 433–442

From Oral to Written Literature: St. Maarten, Saba, and St. Eustatius

Alida M.G. Albus | pp. 443–449

Di nos e ta! Outside and Inside in Aruban Literature

Wim Rutgers | pp. 451–461

Conclusions

Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger | pp. 463–468

A Mosaic Setting: A Contrastive History of Genre

Introduction

Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger | pp. 471–477

Overview

West Indian Slavery and Dutch Enlightenment Literature

A.N. Paasman | pp. 481–489

The Portuguese Jewish Nation: An Enlightenment Essay on the Colony of Suriname

Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger | pp. 491–503

Curaçaoan Literature in Spanish

Liesbeth Echteld | pp. 505–512

Strategies and Stratagems of some Dutch-Antillean Writers

Jaap Oversteegen | pp. 513–523

Fiction

The Contemporary Surinamese Novel

Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger | pp. 527–541

Surinamese Short Narrative

Michiel van Kempen | pp. 543–560

Poetry

Literary Magazines and Poetry in the Netherlands Antilles

Wim Rutgers | pp. 563–568

The Surinamese Muse: Reflections on Poetry

Vernie February | pp. 569–580

East Indian Surinamese Poetry and its Languages

Theo Damsteegt | pp. 581–594

Drama

Forms of Dramatic Expression in the Leeward Islands

Igma van Putte-De Windt | pp. 597–614

Banya, a Surviving Surinamese Slave Play

Trudi Guda | pp. 615–622

Literary Magazines

Civilisadó: A Doomed Civilizing Offensive in Curaçao, 1871-1875

Eva Abraham-van der Mark | pp. 625–632

Prewar Prose and Poetry in Papiamentu

Aart G. Broek | pp. 633–642

Literary Criticism

Antillean Literary Criticism: Caribbean vs. Dutch Approaches

Jos de Roo | pp. 645–650

Conclusions

Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger | pp. 651–658

Index to Names of Writers and Significant Historical Figures | pp. 659–672

“This is a bold endeavor. The result is an indispensable reference work and a compelling adventure all in one. [...] A number of essays here anthologised in the important, but long-neglected Dutch orbit, are especially useful.”

Gaston Gâtepapier, Bayou Courtablue, Louisiana, in Plantation Society in the Americas, Vol VI, Nos. 2&3 (1999)

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