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Author : Bruce King
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015035013385
An academic critical history and survey of West Indian literature in English.
Author : Kenneth Ramchand
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789766371517
An account of the emergence of the West Indian novel in English, this work provides valuable insights into the social, cultural and political background, offering concise and focused accounts of the growth of education, the development of literacy, and the formation of West Indian Creole languages.
Author : Michael Hughes
Publisher : [London] : Collins
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015028431883
Author : Judy S. J. Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173020645273
Author : Kenneth Ramchand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Caribbean literature (English)
ISBN : UOM:39015004127232
Author : Kelly Baker Josephs
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813935072
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 : Ronald Cummings,Alison Donnell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108474004
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 : Janelle Rodriques
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429998652
This book explores representations of Obeah – a name used in the English/Creole-speaking Caribbean to describe various African-derived, syncretic Caribbean religious practices – across a range of prose fictions published in the twentieth century by West Indian authors. In the Caribbean and its diasporas, Obeah often manifests in the casting of spells, the administration of baths and potions of various oils, herbs, roots and powders, and sometimes spirit possession, for the purposes of protection, revenge, health and well-being. In most Caribbean territories, the practice – and practices that may resemble it – remains illegal. Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature analyses fiction that employs Obeah as a marker of the Black ‘folk’ aesthetics that are now constitutive of West Indian literary and cultural production, either in resistance to colonial ideology or in service of the same. These texts foreground Obeah as a social and cultural logic both integral to and troublesome within the creation of such a thing as ‘West Indian’ literature and culture, at once a product of and a foil to Caribbean plantation societies. This book explores the presentation of Obeah as an ‘unruly’ narrative subject, one that not only subverts but signifies a lasting ‘Afro-folk’ sensibility within colonial and ‘postcolonial’ writing of the West Indies. Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature will be of interest to scholars and students of Caribbean Literature, Diaspora Studies, and African and Caribbean religious studies; it will also contribute to dialogues of spirituality in the wider Black Atlantic.
Author : Mervyn Morris
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789766371746
"West Indian Literature, as a body of work, is a fairly recent phenomenon; and literary criticism has not always acknowledged the diversity of approaches to writing effectively. In Making West Indian Literature poet and critic Mervyn Morris explores examples of West Indian creativity shaping a range of responses to experience, which often includes colonial traces. Appreciating various kinds of making and a number of West Indian makers, these engaging essays and interviews display a recurrent interest in the processes of composition. Some of the prices highlight writer-performers who have not often been examined. This very readable book, often personal in tone, makes a distinctive contribution to the knowledge and understanding of West Indian Literature. "
Author : Nana Wilson-Tagoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0813015820
"There is in this work nearly total grasp of the central concerns of . . . Anglophone Caribbean literature. Few books on the subject cover it with the breadth and depth that this has."--Isidore Okpewho, State university of New York, Binghamton "An impressive range of explorations into the ways in which the better-known male Caribbean writers of fiction, poetry, and drama reconceptualize Caribbean history."--Kathleen M. Balutansky, Saint Michael's College Nana Wilson-Tagoe argues that it is in the imaginative recasting of the past, more than in one-dimensional explanations of historical processes, that we find insights in Caribbean history and that it is this recasting that has shaped Caribbean literature in the 20th century. Looking at major Anglophone Caribbean writers in three genres--novels, short stories, and poetry--she analyzes the ways in which history has been perceived, constructed, and used in West Indian literature. In that context she explores the interplay of reality and the fantastic; history and the imagination; myth and ancestral memory; time-bound conceptions of the West Indies and the timeless values of life there. While discussion focuses on the interface between literature and historiography, it also addresses issues in sociology, political science, and philosophy. Wilson-Tagoe's work will appeal to students of Caribbean literature but also and particularly to scholars who study the black Atlantic world, both on its own terms and in its relations with Western society and Africa. Nana Wilson-Tagoe teaches African and Caribbean literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has published A Reader's Guide to West Indian and Black British Literature as well as articles in Caribbean Review, Trinidad Review, Wasafiri, and Comparative and General Literature.
Author : Edward Baugh,Mervyn Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173000173295
Author : Lloyd Wellesley Brown
Publisher : London : Heinemann ; Exeter, N.H., USA : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018337938
Author : Renu Juneja
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015038150143
During the last half of the 20th century, it has been difficult for much of the Third World or the colonial (and postcolonial) world to escape the impingement of the West on our consciousness and on our lives. This volume expands on the subject with particular reference to literature.
Author : Michael Gilkes
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015005175321
Author : Laurence A. Breiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521587123
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.