title: Caribbean Poetics: Toward an Aesthetic of West Indian Literature
author:  Silvio Torres-Saillant 
description: Caribbean Poetics studies the literatures written in European languages in the West Indies as a regionally unified corpus with its own identity, and focuses on the literary works of the Barbadian Kamau Brathwaite, the Haitian Ren Depestre, and the Dominican Pedro Mir.
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  CONTENTS
  
  
  [_Cover_](kindle:embed:0002?mime=image/jpg)
  
  
  [_About the Author_](part0001.html)
  
  
  [_List of Illustrations_](part0002.html)
  
  
  [_Map_](part0003.html)
  
  
  [_Dedication_](part0004.html)
  
  
  [_Title Page_](part0005.html)
  
  
  [_Epigraph_](part0006.html)
  
  
  [_Preface_](part0007.html)
  
  
  [1\. ‘By God’s Faith!’](part0008.html)
  
  
  [2\. Beyond the Line](part0009_split_000.html)
  
  
  [3\. The Troublesome Voyage of John Hawkins](part0010.html)
  
  
  [4\. Drake’s War](part0011.html)
  
  
  [5\. ‘The Mouth of the Treasure of the World’](part0012.html)
  
  
  [6\. ‘Despite … All the Spaniards in the Indies’](part0013.html)
  
  
  [7\. Services Ashore and Afloat](part0014.html)
  
  
  [8\. The South Seas Project](part0015.html)
  
  
  [9\. The Atlantic Voyage](part0016.html)
  
  
  [10\. War Comes to the Pacific](part0017.html)
  
  
  [11\. The World Encompassed](part0018.html)
  
  
  [12\. The Golden Knight](part0019.html)
  
  
  [13\. ‘What Has Become of Drake?’](part0020.html)
  
  
  [14\. Playing the Dragon](part0021.html)
  
  
  [15\. ‘