Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time [Book review]

Caribbean literature of the 1940s has often been overlooked. It came between the first stirrings of the anticolonial public sphere in the 1930s and the rise of Caribbean authors to global prominence in the 1950s. In Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time, Katerina Gonzales Seligmann spotlights the 1940s by reading across the literary communities of the Francophone, Hispanophone, and Anglophone Caribbean. She argues that a new region-wide literary sensibility emerged in this decade, one that no longer perceived itself as a subsidiary to the literary cultures of the imperial powers.