260 p, Contents: "Under the hog plum tree": literary claims for citizenship in nineteenth-century Trinidad -- The accidental modernist : Thomas MacDermot and Jamaican literature -- Herbert's career : H.G. de Lisser and the business of national literature -- The new primitivism : gender and nation in McKay's internationalism -- The realpolitik of yard fiction : Trinidad's Beacon group -- The pitfalls of feminist nationalism and the career of Una Marson -- "Fishy waters" : Jean Rhys and West Indian writing before 1940.
