Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature

1. Introduction: The Power of Exile
Leah Reade Rosenberg

2. “Under the Hog Plum Tree”: Literary Claims for Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Trinidad
Leah Reade Rosenberg

3. The Accidental Modernist: Thomas MacDermot and Jamaican Literature
Leah Reade Rosenberg

4. Herbert’s Career: H. G. de Lisser and the Business of National Literature
Leah Reade Rosenberg

5. The New Primitivism: Gender and Nation in McKay’s Internationalism
Leah Reade Rosenberg

6. The Realpolitik of Yard Fiction: Trinidad’s Beacon Group
Leah Reade Rosenberg

7. The Pitfalls of Feminist Nationalism and the Career of Una Marson
Leah Reade Rosenberg

8. “Fishy Waters”: Jean Rhys and West Indian Writing before 1940
Leah Reade Rosenberg

9. Afterword
Leah Reade Rosenberg

Keywords: Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature