Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature

Product Description This is the first book-length study of nationalism and literature in the West Indies before 1950. Review "Ground-breaking because of its subject matter, Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature is also remarkable because it opens into other original, if underexploited, vistas." - New West Indian Guide"This is important literary history and criticism, bringing more fully to light work begun on 19th century Trinidadian and Jamaican literature by Caribbean critics such as Rhonda Cobham,Selwyn Cudjoe and Evelyn O'Callaghan. I am confident that this text will become a 'must read' for anyone interested in the historical, ideological, and aesthetic origins of the literature of the English-speaking Caribbean." - Glyne Griffith, University at Albany, State University of New York. About the Author Leah Reade Rosenberg received a PhD in comparative literature from Cornell University (2000). She is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Florida, where she teaches Caribbean, postcolonial, and Atlantic studies. She has published essays in such journals as "Modernism/Modernity," "The Journal of West Indian Literature," and "The Jean Rhys Review."