Market Aesthetics ─ The Purchase of the Past in Caribbean Diasporic Fiction

Sa<’e>z cites Caribbean diasporic writing as facilitating a comparative framework for historical fiction because it is an extension of Caribbean nation-state literatures as well as part of ethnic minority literary traditions in Britain, Canada, and the United States. She argues that authors have more in common with each other than with isolated ethnic or island literary traditions. Five chapters are: mixed blessings; kinship routes; writing the reader; messy intimacies; dictating diaspora; conclusion. There are notes and a bibliography. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Elena Machado Saez, Associate Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, is coauthor with Raphael Dalleo ofThe Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature.