Sargasso Special Issue (1988) West Indian Literature and Its

							                                                    Sargasso Special Issue (1988):
                                  West Indian Literature and Its Political Context:
                                              Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on
                                                                    West Indian Literature
                                                                        25-28 March 1987




                                ÍNDICE / CONTENTS
Acknowledgments                                                                 i

Introduction
      Lowell Fiet                                                               1

Welcoming Addresses
     Juan R. Fernández, Chancellor                                               5
     Manuel Alvarado Morales, Dean of Humanities                                 6

How Many Caribbeans?: The Politics of Different Languages/Literatures
     Cliff Lashley (On the Political Context of West Indian Literature)          7
     Gordon K. Lewis                                                            12
     Merle Hodge                                                                15
     Josemilio González (Six Poems on Haiti)                                    20

Literature, Feminism and Sexual Politics                                        26
       Evelyn O’Callaghan
              “Feminist Consciousness: European/American Theory,
               Jamaican Stories”                                                27
       Betty Wilson
              “Sexual, Racial, and National Politics:
              Jacqueline Manicom’s Mon examen de blanc”                         52
       Elaine Savory Fido
              “The Politics of Colours and the Politics of Writing
               in the Fiction of Jean Rhys”                                     61
       Annette Insanally
              “Sexual Politics in Contemporary Female Writing
              in the Caribbean”                                                 79
       Sheila Coulson
              “Politics and the Female Experience: An Examination
              of Beka Lamb and Heremakhonon”                                    92

Maroons, “Dialect” Poetry, and Drama and Political Reality                     106
     J.R. Pereira
             “The Maroon as Political Motif in Contemporary
             Caribbean Poetry”                                                  107
       Marva L. Lashley
              “Identity as Ideology in the “Dialect” Poetry of
              Bruce St. John”                                           121
       Al Creighton
              “Caribbean Drama in a Political Context”                  130

Narrative and Ideology                                                  140
      Gerald Guiness
             “V.S. Naipaul: Should He Come Home and Stop
             Criticizing the Third World?”                              150
      Maureen Warner-Lewis
             “Saviours, Tyrants, and Rebels”Earl Lovelace’s Fictional
             Portrayal of Power Relations”                              151
      Edward Baugh
             “Education and Politics in West Indian Fiction:
             Austin Clarke’s Proud Empires”                             166
      Steven R. Carter
             “Michael Anthony’s Golden Mystery: All That Glitters”      175
      Joyce Stewart
             “The Latent Ground of Old and New Personalities:
             Wilson Harris’s Politics”                                  187
      Victor L. Chang
             “Images of the Politician in Four Jamaican Novels”         202
      Roydon Salick
             “Gestures of Faith: An Anatomy of Idealism in
             the West Indian Novel”                                     211


List of Contributors                                                    223