The Language Of Caribbean Poetry

Author : Beverley Bryan,Morag Styles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136180811

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Teaching Caribbean Poetry by Beverley Bryan,Morag Styles Pdf

Teaching Caribbean Poetry will inform and inspire readers with a love for, and understanding of, the dynamic world of Caribbean poetry. This unique volume sets out to enable secondary English teachers and their students to engage with a wide range of poetry, past and present; to understand how histories of the Caribbean underpin the poetry and relate to its interpretation; and to explore how Caribbean poetry connects with environmental issues. Written by literary experts with extensive classroom experience, this lively and accessible book is immersed in classroom practice, and examines: • popular aspects of Caribbean poetry, such as performance poetry; • different forms of Caribbean language; • the relationship between music and poetry; • new voices, as well as well-known and distinguished poets, including John Agard (winner of the Queen’s Medal for Poetry, 2012), Kamau Brathwaite, Lorna Goodison, Olive Senior and Derek Walcott; • the crucial themes within Caribbean poetry such as inequality, injustice, racism, ‘othering’, hybridity, diaspora and migration; • the place of Caribbean poetry on the GCSE/CSEC and CAPE syllabi, covering appropriate themes, poetic forms and poets for exam purposes. Throughout this absorbing book, the authors aim to combat the widespread ‘fear’ of teaching poetry, enabling teachers to teach it with confidence and enthusiasm and helping students to experience the rewards of listening to, reading, interpreting, performing and writing Caribbean poetry.

Author : Kamau Brathwaite
Publisher : London : New Beacon Books
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015011258145

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History of the Voice by Kamau Brathwaite Pdf

Author : Beverley Bryan,Morag Styles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136180828

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Teaching Caribbean Poetry by Beverley Bryan,Morag Styles Pdf

Teaching Caribbean Poetry will inform and inspire readers with a love for, and understanding of, the dynamic world of Caribbean poetry. This unique volume sets out to enable secondary English teachers and their students to engage with a wide range of poetry, past and present; to understand how histories of the Caribbean underpin the poetry and relate to its interpretation; and to explore how Caribbean poetry connects with environmental issues. Written by literary experts with extensive classroom experience, this lively and accessible book is immersed in classroom practice, and examines: • popular aspects of Caribbean poetry, such as performance poetry; • different forms of Caribbean language; • the relationship between music and poetry; • new voices, as well as well-known and distinguished poets, including John Agard (winner of the Queen’s Medal for Poetry, 2012), Kamau Brathwaite, Lorna Goodison, Olive Senior and Derek Walcott; • the crucial themes within Caribbean poetry such as inequality, injustice, racism, ‘othering’, hybridity, diaspora and migration; • the place of Caribbean poetry on the GCSE/CSEC and CAPE syllabi, covering appropriate themes, poetic forms and poets for exam purposes. Throughout this absorbing book, the authors aim to combat the widespread ‘fear’ of teaching poetry, enabling teachers to teach it with confidence and enthusiasm and helping students to experience the rewards of listening to, reading, interpreting, performing and writing Caribbean poetry.

Author : Lee Margaret Jenkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813027624

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The Language of Caribbean Poetry by Lee Margaret Jenkins Pdf

Through a close reading of selected poets born in the Caribbean and working from the 1910s to the present, Lee Jenkins analyzes the language and intertextuality of Caribbean poetry, revising notions of the relationship of this poetry to modernism. Focusing on how Caribbean writers respond to their literary inheritances inside and outside the region, she illuminates the interactions of Caribbean poetry with Anglo-American modernism, with English, Scottish, and Irish regional modernisms, and with postmodern avant-garde movements such as the Language Movement. Modernism emerges as a tradition that has been assimilated, transformed, and turned in fresh directions by Caribbean poets. Previous studies have stressed the influence of the African-American protest tradition on Caribbean poetry, alleging a lack of interest in formal innovation in black poetry. Jenkins counters that Caribbean poetry is informed by many textualities and accomplishes the goals of the modernist experiment through diction, metaphor, and allusion. Jenkins examines the peculiar influence of T. S. Eliot on Anglophone Caribbean poetry. She pays special attention to the early Jamaican dialect poetry of Claude McKay and the undervalued poetics and wider cultural work of Una Marson, the first major Caribbean woman poet. She evaluates the current burgeoning interest in poet and historian Kamau Brathwaite and also discusses the work of less-noticed poets David Dabydeen, Lorna Goodison, and M. NourbeSe Philip, offering the first critical discussion of Philip's poem-sequence Zong! This revisionary and groundbreaking work relates not only to the fields of Caribbean literature and 20th-century poetry but to recent reevaluations of the Harlem Renaissance; it is also relevant for students of women's poetry and African-American literature.

Author : J. Edward Chamberlin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252062973

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Come Back to Me My Language by J. Edward Chamberlin Pdf

Combining the African sources and British colonial traditions, this poetry shares its roots with rap and reggae and has the same hold on the popular imagination. It discusses the work of more than thirty poets and performers and gives detailed analyses of the major ones.

Author : E. Anthony Hurley
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Caribbean poetry (French)
ISBN : 0865435960

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Through a Black Veil by E. Anthony Hurley Pdf

Investigates the diverse poetic manifestations of a sensibility that may be designated as French Caribbean through a close reading of a representative sample of poems. Many are presented here in translation for the first time.

Author : Kwame Senu Neville Dawes
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0813919460

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Talk Yuh Talk by Kwame Senu Neville Dawes Pdf

In the past 30 years, most Caribbean poetry written in English has come to the US in the lyrics of reggae music, but that is only one aspect of a tradition characterized by continuing tension within a diverse heritage. Interviews in this collection reflect a range of Caribbean voices from several generations, from those poets influenced by a dynamic interplay between the popular culture of reggae music and yard theater to those whose work is closer to classical forms of literature and oral narrative. Dawes teaches English at the University of South Carolina. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Manuela Coppola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8860743982

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Crossovers by Manuela Coppola Pdf

Author : Mathias Mwinzi
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9783668359413

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Caribbean Literature. A critical analysis of the issues raised in texts by Mais, Lamming, Naipaul and Walcott by Mathias Mwinzi Pdf

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Literature - Carribean, , language: English, abstract: Caribbean literature is the combination of works from the islands of the Caribbean. The Caribbean islands are also called the home of the noble savage because they were islands of primitive men. These islands have no large mass of land and are distant from the rest of the world. The attachment of the dwellers to their individual islands have been a problem to the growth of a broader and unified Caribbean culture. To most Caribbean writers their landscapes are an important aspect of literature. The Caribbean writers have similar issues that they raise in their text because they share similar social, economical, political and historical challenges. This is because literature writers write texts that mirror their societies. Issues that are raised in literary texts from the Caribbean texts vary from discrimination, role of women, violence, weak family units and disillusionment

Author : Raquel Puig,Dorsía Smith
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443803137

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Caribbean Without Borders by Raquel Puig,Dorsía Smith Pdf

Caribbean Studies is an emerging field. As such, many topics within this discipline have yet to be explored and developed. This collection of essays is one of the forerunners dedicated to a comprehensive study of the literature, language, and culture of the Caribbean. By exploring the works of such prominent literary scholars as Samuel Selvon and Lorna Goodison as well as the myriad of issues pertaining to the Caribbean experience, this volume provides an engaging overview of literary, language, and cultural analysis. Because of this wide range of essays, this text meets a need to examine the Caribbean in its complexity, which is rarely addressed.

Author : Denise deCaires Narain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134601837

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Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry by Denise deCaires Narain Pdf

Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are contextualized both within Caribbean cultural debates and postcolonial and feminist critical discourses in a lively and engaged way; revisiting nationalist debates as well as topical issues about the performance of gendered and raced identities within poetic discourse. Newly available in paperback, this book is groundbreaking reading for all those interested in postcolonialism, Gender Studies, Caribbean Studies and contemporary poetry.

Author : Louis James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Derrilyn E. Morrison
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443884143

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Making History Happen by Derrilyn E. Morrison Pdf

Making History Happen: Caribbean Poetry in America examines Lorna Goodison’s Turn Thanks (1999), McCallum’s The Water Between Us (1999), and Claudia Rankine’s Plot (2001) and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (2004). Engaging familiar themes and issues of time, language, and identity, the readings focus on “Signifying” moments in the works of the poets under discussion. Reflecting on some of the ways that transnational women poets of the black diaspora are using tropes of mobility to create a renewed sense of identity and a sense of belonging to a communal network, the readings also demonstrate that the project of re-writing individual self-identity in light of one’s expanding consciousness or awareness of the “other” is more urgent, and more demandingly realistic, in contemporary poetry written by women poets who occupy transnational spaces. In these works, re-memory becomes a process that transforms, the gathering of memory reflecting the interrelatedness of communal and individual subjective identities. Rankine’s poetry collections are used to close the discourse in this book, for the call they make. An intriguing crossing of genres, their structural use of time and space reflects the stylistic inventiveness that has become a hallmark of transnational poets of the black diaspora. In its transformation of language, and of images that remain open-ended in their meanings, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely fuses poetry, dialogue, and prose with images from television and other forms of communication media to create a poetic collection that is relentless in its confrontation with the way we make cultural meanings. The collection of essays in this book calls attention to an emerging poetic body of Caribbean writing in America that requires naming, for it is new.

Author : Laurence A. Breiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521587123

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An Introduction to West Indian Poetry by Laurence A. Breiner Pdf

This introduction to West Indian poetry is written for readers making their first approach to the poetry of the Caribbean written in English. It offers a comprehensive literary history from the 1920s to the 1980s, with particular attention to the relationship of West Indian poetry to European, African and American literature. Close readings of individual poems give detailed analysis of social and cultural issues at work in the writing. Laurence Breiner's exposition speaks powerfully about the defining forces in Caribbean culture from colonialism to resistance and decolonization.

Author : Paula Burnett
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,7 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.