Caribbean Literature In English

Author : Louis James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317871224

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Caribbean Literature in English by Louis James Pdf

Caribbean Literature in English places its subject in its precise regional context. The `Caribbean', generally considered as one area, is highly discrete in its topography, race and languages, including mainland Guyana, the Atlantic island of Barbados, the Lesser Antilles, Trinidad, and Jamaica, whose size and history gave it an early sense of separate nationhood. Beginning with Raleigh's Discoverie of...Guiana (1596), this innovative study traces the sometimes surprising evolution of cultures which shared a common experience of slavery, but were intimately related to individual local areas. The approach is interdisciplinary, examining the heritage of the plantation era, and the issues of language and racial identity it created. From this base, Louis James reassesses the phenomenal expansion of writing in the contemporary period. He traces the influence of pan-Caribbean movements and the creation of an expatriate Caribbean identity in Britain and America: `Brit'n' is considered as a West Indian island, created by `colonization in reverse'. Further sections treat the development of a Caribbean aesthetic, and the repossession of cultural roots from Africa and Asia. Balancing an awareness of the regional identity of Caribbean literature with an exploration of its place in world and postcolonial literatures, this study offers a panoramic view that has become one of the most vital of the `new literatures in English'. This accessible overview of Caribbean writing will appeal to the general reader and student alike, and particularly to all who are interested in or studying Caribbean literatures and culture, postcolonial studies, Commonwealth 'new literatures' and contemporary literature and drama.

Author : Alison Donnell,Sarah Lawson Welsh
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0415120497

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The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature by Alison Donnell,Sarah Lawson Welsh Pdf

An outstanding compilation of over seventy primary and secondary texts of writing from the Caribbean. The editors demonstrate that these singular voices have emerged out of a wealth of literary tradition and not a cultural void.

Author : Kelly Baker Josephs
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813935072

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Disturbers of the Peace by Kelly Baker Josephs Pdf

Exploring the prevalence of madness in Caribbean texts written in English in the mid-twentieth century, Kelly Baker Josephs focuses on celebrated writers such as Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, and Derek Walcott as well as on understudied writers such as Sylvia Wynter and Erna Brodber. Because mad figures appear frequently in Caribbean literature from French, Spanish, and English traditions—in roles ranging from bit parts to first-person narrators—the author regards madness as a part of the West Indian literary aesthetic. The relatively condensed decolonization of the anglophone islands during the 1960s and 1970s, she argues, makes literature written in English during this time especially rich for an examination of the function of madness in literary critiques of colonialism and in the Caribbean project of nation-making. In drawing connections between madness and literature, gender, and religion, this book speaks not only to the field of Caribbean studies but also to colonial and postcolonial literature in general. The volume closes with a study of twenty-first-century literature of the Caribbean diaspora, demonstrating that Caribbean writers still turn to representations of madness to depict their changing worlds.

Author : Alison Donnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781134505869

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Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature by Alison Donnell Pdf

A historiography of Caribbean literary history and criticism, the author explores different critical approaches and textual peepholes to re-examine the way twentieth-century Caribbean literature in English may be read and understood.

Author : Cynthia James
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015055802964

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The Maroon Narrative by Cynthia James Pdf

This book analyzes the concept of the maroon to provide a better understanding of Caribbean literature.

Author : Ronald Cummings,Alison Donnell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108474004

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Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020: Volume 3 by Ronald Cummings,Alison Donnell Pdf

The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 traces the region's contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and drama into emerging areas of creative non-fiction, memoir and speculative fiction with a particular attention on challenging the narrow canon of Anglophone male writers. It maps shifts and continuities between late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Caribbean literature in terms of innovations in literary form and style, the changing role and place of the writer, and shifts in our understandings of what constitutes the political terrain of the literary and its sites of struggle. Whilst reaching across language divides and multiple diasporas, it shows how contemporary Caribbean Literature has focused its attentions on social complexity and ongoing marginalizations in its continued preoccupations with identity, belonging and freedoms.

Author : Michael A. Bucknor,Alison Donnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136821745

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The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature by Michael A. Bucknor,Alison Donnell Pdf

This Companion is divided into six sections that provide an introduction to and critical history of the field, discussions of key texts and a critical debate on major topics such as the nation, race, gender and migration. In the final section contributors examine the material dissemination of Caribbean literature and point towards the new directions that Caribbean literature and criticism are taking.

Author : Paula Burnett
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141937397

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The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English by Paula Burnett Pdf

Over the last few decades Caribbean writers - performance poets, newspaper poets, singer-songwriters - have created a genuinely popular art form, a poetry heard by audiences all over the world. At the same time, even at its most literary, Caribbean poetry shares the vigour of the oral tradition. Writers like Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott, and many other exciting new voices, are exploring ways of capturing the vitality of the spoken word on the page. Both of these traditions are represented in this lively anthology, which traces Caribbean verse from its roots to the present.

Author : Funso Aiyejina,Paula Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literature and society
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123868122

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Caribbean Literature in a Global Context by Funso Aiyejina,Paula Morgan Pdf

Author : Bénédicte Ledent,Evelyn O'Callaghan,Daria Tunca
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319981802

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Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature by Bénédicte Ledent,Evelyn O'Callaghan,Daria Tunca Pdf

This collection takes as its starting point the ubiquitous representation of various forms of mental illness, breakdown and psychopathology in Caribbean writing, and the fact that this topic has been relatively neglected in criticism, especially in Anglophone texts, apart from the scholarship devoted to Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). The contributions to this volume demonstrate that much remains to be done in rethinking the trope of “madness” across Caribbean literature by local and diaspora writers. This book asks how focusing on literary manifestations of apparent mental aberration can extend our understanding of Caribbean narrative and culture, and can help us to interrogate the norms that have been used to categorize art from the region, as well as the boundaries between notions of rationality, transcendence and insanity across cultures.

Author : Frank Birbalsingh
Publisher : New York : St. Martin's Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312126387

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Frontiers of Caribbean Literature in English by Frank Birbalsingh Pdf

A collection of interviews with renowned Caribbean writers deals with issues of identity, alienation, and racism, and offers a portrayal of the evolution of Caribbean writing

Author : Evelyn O'Callaghan,Tim Watson
Publisher : Caribbean Literature in Transi
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781108475884

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Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-1920: Volume 1 by Evelyn O'Callaghan,Tim Watson Pdf

This volume explores Caribbean literature from 1800-1920 across genres and in the multiple languages of the Caribbean.

Author : Claire Westall
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030659721

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The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature by Claire Westall Pdf

This book analyses cricket’s place in Anglophone Caribbean literature. It examines works by canonical authors – Brathwaite, Lamming, Lovelace, Naipaul, Phillips and Selvon – and by understudied writers – including Agard, Fergus, John, Keens-Douglas, Khan and Markham. It tackles short stories, novels, poetry, drama and film from the Caribbean and its diaspora. Its literary readings are couched in the history of Caribbean cricket and studies by Hilary Beckles and Gordon Rohlehr. C.L.R James’ foundational Beyond a Boundary provides its theoretical grounding. Literary depictions of iconic West Indies players – including Constantine, Headley, Worrell, Walcott, Sobers, Richards, and Lara – feature throughout. The discussion focuses on masculinity, heroism, father-son dynamics, physical performativity and aesthetic style. Attention is also paid to mother-daughter relations and female engagement with cricket, with examples from Anim-Addo, Breeze, Wynter and others. Cricket holds a prominent place in the history, culture, politics and popular imaginary of the Caribbean. This book demonstrates that it also holds a significant and complicated place in Anglophone Caribbean literature.

Author : David Dabydeen
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015058118277

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A Handbook for Teaching Caribbean Literature by David Dabydeen Pdf

Author : Simon Gikandi
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501722936

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Writing in Limbo by Simon Gikandi Pdf

In Simon Gikandi’s view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of modernism and modernity—a relationship in which the Caribbean writer, unable to escape a history encoded by Europe, accepts the challenge of rewriting it. Drawing on contemporary deconstructionist theory, Gikandi looks at how such Caribbean writers as George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, Alejo Carpentier, C. L. R. James, Paule Marshall, Merle Hodge, Zee Edgell, and Michelle Cliff have attempted to confront European modernism.