Wholeness And Home In West Indian Literature

Author : Daizal R. Samad
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781398463790

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WHOLENESS AND HOME IN WEST INDIAN LITERATURE is an invaluable resource for everyone who has an interest in West Indian literature or Culture, West Indian Society or History, Ethnic Tensions, and Psychic Heterogeneity. It is especially useful for university and secondary school students and teachers who teach or need to learn about writers from the West Indies. It offers unique critical insights into the works of globally renowned writers who hail from the Caribbean: V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, Wilson Harris, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, John Hearn, Jean Rhys, and Derek Walcott. WHOLENESS AND HOME is important reading for any student of ethnic relations. The book focuses on the possibilities of a culture that had its very beginnings in genocide and in the forced or fraudulent fetching of human beings from many other places. These people were pitted against each other to ensure division and assure plantation profitability. This book examines how major West Indian writers capture this initial ethnic antagonism that now infects much of the world. WHOLENESS AND HOME also insists on the futility of racism and bigotry by pointing to the enormous potential for social harmony. At the very least, Samad and Harripersaud offer excellent examples of essay writing for teachers and students, especially those at the university and college levels.

Author : Daizal R Samad,Ashwannie Harripersaud
Publisher : Austin Macauley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1398463787

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Wholeness and Home in West Indian Literature by Daizal R Samad,Ashwannie Harripersaud Pdf

Wholeness and Home in West Indian Literature is an invaluable resource for everyone who has an interest in West Indian literature or Culture, West Indian Society or History, Ethnic Tensions, and Psychic Heterogeneity. It is especially useful for university and secondary school students and teachers who teach or need to learn about writers from the West Indies. It offers unique critical insights into the works of globally renowned writers who hail from the Caribbean: V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, Wilson Harris, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, John Hearn, Jean Rhys, and Derek Walcott. Wholeness and Home is important reading for any student of ethnic relations. The book focuses on the possibilities of a culture that had its very beginnings in genocide and in the forced or fraudulent fetching of human beings from many other places. These people were pitted against each other to ensure division and assure plantation profitability. This book examines how major West Indian writers capture this initial ethnic antagonism that now infects much of the world. Wholeness and Home also insists on the futility of racism and bigotry by pointing to the enormous potential for social harmony. At the very least, Samad and Harripersaud offer excellent examples of essay writing for teachers and students, especially those at the university and college levels.

Author : Mervyn Morris
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789766371746

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Making West Indian Literature by Mervyn Morris Pdf

"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 : Joyce Owens Pettis
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813916143

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Toward Wholeness in Paule Marshall's Fiction by Joyce Owens Pettis Pdf

An examination of Marshall's work and its place in the tradition of African-American women's fiction and of black American and Caribbean literature and culture. Explores the intersecting patterns of race, class, and gender oppressions that contribute to her characters' problems and their attempts to transcend this oppression. For readers in women's, Caribbean, and African-American literature. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Pamela Mordecai,Betty Wilson
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0435989065

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Her True-true Name by Pamela Mordecai,Betty Wilson Pdf

31 women writers from throughout the Caribbean express the loss and the longing, the pride and passion of the Caribbean identity.

Author : Caroline Rody
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195350036

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The Daughter's Return by Caroline Rody Pdf

The Daughter's Return offers a close analysis of an emerging genre in African-American and Caribbean fiction produced by women writers who make imaginative returns to their ancestral pasts. Considering some of the defining texts of contemporary fiction--Toni Morrison's Beloved, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, and Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven--Rody discusses their common inclusion of a daughter who returns to the site of her people's founding trauma of slavery through memory or magic. Rody treats these texts as allegorical expressions of the desire of writers newly emerging into cultural authority to reclaim their difficult inheritance, and finds a counter plot of heroines' encounters with women of other racial and ethnic groups running through these works.

Author : George Elliott Clarke
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802094254

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Directions Home by George Elliott Clarke Pdf

Directions Home explores the trajectories and tendencies of African-Canadian literature within the Canadian canon and the socio-cultural traditions of the African Diaspora.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484238

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English Literature and the Other Languages by Anonim Pdf

The thirty essays in English Literature and the Other Languages trace how the tangentiality of English and other modes of language affects the production of English literature, and investigate how questions of linguistic code can be made accessible to literary analysis. This collection studies multilingualism from the Reformation onwards, when Latin was an alternative to the emerging vernacular of the Anglican nation; the eighteenth-century confrontation between English and the languages of the colonies; the process whereby the standard British English of the colonizer has lost ground to independent englishes (American, Canadian, Indian, Caribbean, Nigerian, or New Zealand English), that now consider the original standard British English as the other languages the interaction between English and a range of British language varieties including Welsh, Irish, and Scots, the Lancashire and Dorset dialects, as well as working-class idiom; Chicano literature; translation and self-translation; Ezra Pound's revitalization of English in the Cantos; and the psychogrammar and comic dialogics in Joyce's Ulysses, As Norman Blake puts it in his Afterword to English Literature and the Other Languages: There has been no volume such as this which tries to take stock of the whole area and to put multilingualism in literature on the map. It is a subject which has been neglected for too long, and this volume is to be welcomed for its brave attempt to fill this lacuna.

Author : A. James Arnold
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027298331

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A History of Literature in the Caribbean by A. James Arnold Pdf

For the first time the Dutch-speaking regions of the Caribbean and Suriname are brought into fruitful dialogue with another major American literature, that of the anglophone Caribbean. The results are as stimulating as they are unexpected. The editors have coordinated the work of a distinguished international team of specialists. Read separately or as a set of three volumes, the History of Literature in the Caribbean is designed to serve as the primary reference book in this area. The reader can follow the comparative evolution of a literary genre or plot the development of a set of historical problems under the appropriate heading for the English- or Dutch-speaking region. An extensive index to names and dates of authors and significant historical figures completes the volume. The subeditors bring to their respective specialty areas a wealth of Caribbeanist experience. Vera M. Kutzinski is Professor of English, American, and Afro-American Literature at Yale University. Her book Sugar’s Secrets: Race and The Erotics of Cuban Nationalism, 1993, treated a crucial subject in the romance of the Caribbean nation. Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger has been very active in Latin American and Caribbean literary criticism for two decades, first at the Free University in Berlin and later at the University of Maryland. The editor of A History of Literature in the Caribbean, A. James Arnold, is Professor of French at the University of Virginia, where he founded the New World Studies graduate program. Over the past twenty years he has been a pioneer in the historical study of the Négritude movement and its successors in the francophone Caribbean.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : West Indian literature (English)
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018338012

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Critical Approaches to West Indian Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Simone A. James Alexander
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780826263162

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Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women by Simone A. James Alexander Pdf

"Focusing on specific texts by Jamaica Kincaid, Maryse Conde, and Paule Marshall, this study explores the intricate trichotomous relationship between the mother (biological or surrogate), the motherlands Africa and the Caribbean, and the mothercountry represented by England, France, and/or North America. The mother-daughter relationships in the works discussed address the complex, conflicting notions of motherhood that exist within this trichotomy. Although mothering is usually socialized as a welcoming, nurturing notion, Alexander argues that alongside this nurturing notion there exists much conflict. Specifically, she argues that the mother-daughter relationship, plagued with ambivalence, is often further conflicted by colonialism or colonial intervention from the "other," the colonial mothercountry." "Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women offers an overview of Caribbean women's writings from the 1990s, focusing on the personal relationships these three authors have had with their mothers and/or motherlands to highlight links, despite social, cultural, geographical, and political differences, among Afro-Caribbean women and their writings. Alexander traces acts of resistance, which facilitate the (re)writing/righting of the literary canon and the conception of a "newly created genre" and a "womanist" tradition through fictional narratives with autobiographical components." --Book Jacket.

Author : Timothy J. Reiss
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173009916264

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For the Geography of a Soul by Timothy J. Reiss Pdf

Author : Michael A. Bucknor,Alison Donnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Lowell Fiet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Politics and literature
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018338001

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West Indian Literature and Its Political Context by Lowell Fiet Pdf

Author : Bénédicte Ledent,Evelyn O'Callaghan,Daria Tunca
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,7 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.