A background to the novel in the West Indies

That there is a substantial fiction from the West Indies and that a relatively high proportion of it is of good quality} these are the premises with which this study began and which it must in part substantiate. But there are problems to be coped with. The lack of basic information about writers, works and periods; and the absence of a West Indian critical tradition are more acutely felt because most West Indian writers live in London and have their works published and read in England.This circumstance encourages the documentary tendency already noted to the extent that the novels become primary evidence for theories about West Indian society. Meanwhile, the fiction is not felt in the West Indies as part of the social and cultural life of the islands.This study tries to deal with the whole nexus of problems in a crossdisciplinary fashion. On one level it tries to trace the growth of West Indian fiction and to illuminate its background, thus placing it in its proper social context and preparing the way for informed critical appreciation by its largely non-vest Indian readers. This provides the outer frame for the thesis and determines the Chapter headings. Chapter II Life without Fiction ranges from the eighteenth century to the 1940's tracing the growth of writing in the islands in relation to the development of West Indian society and charting the inevitable drift of the present generation of novelists to London. In Chapters III, IV and V the critical problems raised by this exile situation are approached under the broad headings 'Race', 'Language* and 'Society'. Finally in Chapter VI, 'Precursors', a resume of the continuing significance of older West Indian writers is followed by an account of the life and career of Claude McKay (1890-1948) the first West Indian Negro novelist and the first to go into exile, but paradigmatic in even deeper critical senses than this.Such is the outer shape of the thesis, ithin the chapters lie seemingly digressive pockets of literary criticism and literary history. These are important as part of the informational load. But it is felt that coming alongside the background elements, they would both engage with problems of art and serve as exercises in the critical use of background.Instead of an essay type conclusion, hardly practicable in view of the kind of argument being pursued, there will be a select list divided into (A) and (B) categories, of the novels judged to be outstanding as a result of this study

The construction of viewpoint aspect: the imperfective revisited

This paper argues for a constructionist approach to viewpoint Aspect by exploring the idea that it does not exert any altering force on the situation-aspect properties of predicates. The proposal is developed by analyzing the syntax and semantics of the imperfective, which has been attributed a coercer role in the literature as a de-telicizer and de-stativizer in the progressive, and as a de-eventivizer in the so-called ability (or attitudinal) and habitual readings. This paper proposes a unified semantics for the imperfective, preserving the properties of eventualities throughout the derivation. The paper argues that the semantics of viewpoint aspect is encoded in a series of functional heads containing interval-ordering predicates and quantifiers. This richer structure allows us to account for a greater amount of phenomena, such as the perfective nature of the individual instantiations of the event within a habitual construction or the nonculminating reading of perfective accomplishments in Spanish. This paper hypothesizes that nonculminating accomplishments have an underlying structure corresponding to the perfective progressive. As a consequence, the progressive becomes disentangled from imperfectivity and is given a novel analysis. The proposed syntax is argued to have a corresponding explicit morphology in languages such as Spanish and a nondifferentiating one in languages such as English; however, the syntax-semantics underlying both of these languages is argued to be the same

La educación popular en las Indias Occidentales en el siglo XIX. (Traducción: César Pozzobón).

SUMARIO Presentación. Valero, Arnaldo E. 1.- Artículos La educación popular en las Indias Occidentales en el siglo XIX. (Traducción: César Pozzobón). Ramchand, Kenneth La angustia de la fragmentación: La narrativa de Enrique Labrador Ruiz. Contreras B., Álvaro Paralelos temáticos y de técnica literaria en A Brighter Sun de Sam Selvon y Réquiem para un eclipse de Román Chalbaud. Mansoor, Ramón Algunas reflexiones sobre la poética de la relación de Édouard Glissant. Mazeau de Fonseca, Patricia El reino del caimito: Deconstrucción histórica a través de una presencia real. Alba, Alexandra 2.- Dossier El teatro de la revolución haitiana. La revolución haitiana como teatro. (Traducción: Erwin Lacruz). Dash, Michael El imaginario dessaliniano en el teatro histórico y la realidad contemporánea haitiana. (Traducción: Carmen Díaz Orozco). Sorieau, Marie-Agnès Los dioses olvidados de Haití. Ascencio Chancy, Michaelle El rostro imaginado: Representaciones de la comunidad haitiana. Valero, Arnaldo E. 3.- Entrevista Conversación con el escritor dominicano Marcio Veloz Maggiolo. Morales Faedo, Mayuli 4.- Reseñas Distintos modos de cavar un túnel de Juan Carlos Flores. Díaz Infante, Duanel Violet island and other poems de Reina María Rodríguez. Díaz Infante, Duanel Barlovento de Maryse Condé. Pacheco O., Bettina 5.- Índice acumulado Índice acumulado. 6.- Portadas de secciones Traitement Voodou. Faustin, Celestin Le Grand Maitre(2002). Hyppoyte, Héctor Coumbite. Dubic, Abner L’ Embarras du choix. Normil, André[email protected] analíticoanua

La educación popular en las Indias Occidentales en el siglo XIX

El presente texto es una versión al español del primer capítulo del clásico The West Indian Novel and its Background (1970). En él se señala en qué medida el enfoque persistentemente materialista frente a la educación en las Indias Occidentales durante buena parte del siglo XX y el surgimiento de una clase media negra alejada del pueblo fueron moldeados en el siglo XIX. La realización de este balance también permitirá apreciar la dificultad que los miembros de los sectores económicos más deprimidos tuvieron en desarrollar una cultura literaria, es decir, de formarse como lectores