Caribbean Poetics: Toward an Aesthetic of West Indian Literature

Caribbean Poetics studies the literatures written in European languages in the West Indies as a regionally unified corpus with its own identity. The study substantiates the aesthetic autonomy of the region's literary tradition by means of individualized readings of the works of three of its principal figures from three different linguistic blocs: Pedro Mir from the Dominican Republic, Kamau Brathwaite from Barbados, and R'ene Depestre from Haiti.