Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time - 9781978822436

Writing the Caribbean in Magazine TimeAuthor(s): Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978822436, 978-1978822436\nSynopsis\nWriting the Caribbean in Magazine Timeexamines 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 Aim Csaire, Nicols Guilln, Jos 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 Caribb.