Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature

Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary History
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-26200-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

This bold study traces the processes by which a ‘history’ and canon of Caribbean literature and criticism have been constructed. It offers a supplement to that history by presenting new writers, texts and critical moments that help to reconfigure the Caribbean tradition.

Focusing on Anglophone or Anglocreole writings from across the twentieth century, Alison Donnell asks what it is that we read when we approach ‘Caribbean Literature’, how it is that we read it and what critical, ideological and historical pressures may have influenced our choices and approaches. In particular, the book:

* addresses the exclusions that have resulted from the construction of a Caribbean canon

* rethinks the dominant paradigms of Caribbean literary criticism, which have brought issues of anti-colonialism and nationalism, migration and diaspora, ‘double-colonised’ women, and the marginalization of sexuality and homosexuality to the foreground

* seeks to put new issues and writings into critical circulation by exploring lesser-known authors and texts, including Indian Caribbean women’s writings and Caribbean queer writings.

Identifying alternative critical approaches and critical moments, Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature allows us to re-examine the way in which we read not only Caribbean writings, but also the literary history and criticism that surround them.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Donnell, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction Difficult subjects: Caribbean writing before the boom Global villages and watery graves: recrossing the Black Atlantic Double Agents: gender, ethnicity and the absent woman Sexing the Subject: writing and the politics of sexual identity Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Alison Donnell is a Reader in English and Postcolonial Literatures at Nottingham Trent University. She is co-editor of The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (1996) and has published widely in the field of Caribbean and postcolonial writings. She is also Joint Editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.