Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time

Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781978822429, 9781978822436
• eBook ISBN: 9781978822443
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: Literature

Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time examines literary magazines generated during the 1940s that catapulted Caribbean literature into greater international circulation and contributed significantly to social, political, and aesthetic frameworks for decolonization, including Pan-Caribbean discourse. This book demonstrates the material, political, and aesthetic dimensions of Pan-Caribbean literary discourse in magazine texts by Suzanne and Aimé Césaire, Nicolás Guillén, José Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier, George Lamming, Derek Walcott and their contemporaries. Although local infrastructure for book production in the insular Caribbean was minimal throughout the twentieth century, books, largely produced abroad, have remained primary objects of inquiry for Caribbean intellectuals. The critical focus on books has obscured the canonical centrality of literary magazines to Caribbean literature, politics, and social theory. Up against the imperial Goliath of the global book industry, Caribbean literary magazines have waged a guerrilla pursuit for the terms of Caribbean representation.
 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Maps
• 1. Location Writing in Magazine Time
• 2. Locating a Poetics of Freedom in Tropiques
• 3. Gaceta del Caribe v. Orígenes in Cuba: Black Aesthetics as Battleground
• 4. Bim Becomes West Indian
• 5. Polycentric Maps of Literary Worldmaking
• Epilogue: The Bridge Goes Up / The Bridge Falls Down
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index
• About the Author