The Caribbean Novel (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
Introduction
Critic Roberto González Echevarría asserted that it was “in the Caribbean that Latin American literature ‘began,’ for it is in fifteenth century explorer Christopher Columbus’s diary that we first encounter what will become the most persistent theme of Latin American literature: how to write in a European language about realities never seen in Europe before.” Caribbean writers find before them the tools of four European languages, imported by the imperial aspirations of the Dutch, English, French, and Spanish nations. Writers from Dutch Caribbean...
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