{"product_id":"beyond-windrush-9781496813046","title":"Beyond Windrush","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edited collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. Since the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, scholars have exalted an elite cohort of emigre novelists based in postwar London, a group often referred to as -the Windrush writers- in tribute to the SS \u003cem\u003eEmpire Windrush\u003c\/em\u003e, whose 1948 voyage from Jamaica inaugurated large-scale Caribbean migration to London. In critical accounts this group is typically reduced to the canonical troika of V. S. Naipaul, George Lamming, and Sam Selvon, effectively treating these three authors as the tradition's founding fathers. These -founders- have been properly celebrated for producing a complex, anticolonial, nationalist literature. However, their canonization has obscured the great diversity of postwar Caribbean writers, producing an enduring but narrow definition of West Indian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeyond Windrush\u003c\/em\u003e stands out as the first book to reexamine and redefine the writing of this crucial era. Its fourteen\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151283351895,"sku":"9781496813046","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-windrush-9781496813046","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}