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Book SynopsisThe years between the 1920s and 1970s are key for the development of Caribbean literature, producing the founding canonical literary texts of the Anglophone Caribbean. This volume features essays by major scholars as well as emerging voices revisiting important moments from that era to open up new perspectives. Caribbean contributions to the Harlem Renaissance, to the Windrush generation publishing in England after World War II, and to the regional reverberations of the Cuban Revolution all feature prominently in this story. At the same time, we uncover lesser known stories of writers publishing in regional newspapers and journals, of pioneering women writers, and of exchanges with Canada and the African continent. From major writers like Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, and Jean Rhys to recently recuperated figures like Eric Walrond, Una Marson, Sylvia Wynter, and Ismith Khan, this volume sets a course for the future study of Caribbean literature.
Trade Review'The new and timely perspectives on migration, gender, and the environment, amongst other topics, enable this series to bring attention to an incredibly diverse canon of writers, literary forms, and historical contexts. In doing so, the volumes invite readers to revisit established figures - with Walcott and Naipaul still looming large - whilst also re-examining Caribbean literary history to include a corpus of voices that are not necessarily anglophone or male-centric. For this reason, the series deserves to lay the foundations of new critical explorations into the heterogeneity and global scope of Caribbean creativity from its roots in the colonial past through to its many fluid and fragmentary strands in the present.' Matthew Whittle, Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Table of ContentsIntroduction Raphael Dalleo and Curdella Forbes; Part I. Literary and Generic Transitions: 1. Writing at the end of empire Erin M. Fehskens; 2. Questioning Modernism: the 1950s—1960s Mary Lou Emery; 3. Daily decolonization: poetry, periodicals, and newspaper publishing Ben Etherington; 4. Towards a national theatre Jason Allen-Paisant; 5. Orature, performance, and the oral-scribal interface Carol Bailey; 6. Explorations of the self Merle Collins; Part II. Cultural and Political Transitions: 7. Debating language Carolyn Cooper; 8. Periodical culture Claire Irving; 9. Decolonizing education: literature, the school system, and the imperatives of political independence Ian Robertson; 10. Imaginaries of citizenship and the state Michael Niblett; 11. Postcolonial stirrings: the crisis of nationalism Laurie R. Lambert; Part III. The Caribbean Region in Transition: 12. A moving centre: the Caribbean in Britain J. Dillon Brown; 13. Canadian routes Michael A. Bucknor; 14. New empires: the Caribbean and the United States Imani D. Owens; 15. Africa and the Caribbean: recrossing the Atlantic Simon Gikandi; 16. Cross-Caribbean dialogues I: Hispanophone Amanda T. Perry; 17. Cross-Caribbean dialogues II: Francophone Raphael Dalleo; Part IV. Critical Transitions: 18. Forging the critical canon Glyne Griffith; 19. Forgotten trailblazers Antonia Macdonald; 20. Recuperating women writers Anthea Morrison; 21. Rhizomatic genealogies: Jean Rhys as literary foremother Reed Caswell Aiken; 22. Writing Indo-Caribbean masculinity Lisa Outar; 23. Writing and reading sex and sexuality Margaret Grace Love.
