Abstract

Recent years have witnessed an explosion in scholarly production about the Caribbean, and particularly about and by the Caribbean Diaspora in North America and Europe. From the entrance of Black British Cultural Studies, a discourse rooted in Caribbean Diaspora experience in the U.K., to the deepening attentiveness to Caribbean Latino literatures and histories, to the perception of the Caribbean as exemplifying the creoleness, mestissage, or mestizaje and disorder that many believe characterizes this post-colonial post-modern moment, the Caribbean has been seized upon as a tremendously desirable subject site. The increased attention to the Caribbean as a subject for scholarly discourse, however, demands the interrogation of ideas of Caribbean identity, literature, and politics that undergird this discourse. Belinda Edmondson sets out to do just that in her work and claims that purpose explicitly in the introduction to her edited collection Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation. She states

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