Contributor
Dalleo, Raphael, editor.
ImprintCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Descriptionxv, 420 pages ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction / Raphael Dalleo and Curdella Forbes -- Part I. Literary and generic transitions -- Writing at the end of the empire / Erin M. Fehskens -- Questioning Modernism : the 1950s-1960s / Mary Lou Emery -- Daily decolonization : poetry, periodicals, and newspaper publishing / Ben Etherington -- Towards a national theatre / Jason Allen-Paisant -- Orature, performance, and the oral-scribal interface / Carol Bailey -- Explorations of the self / Merle Collins -- Part II. Cultural and political transitions -- Debating language / Carolyn Cooper -- Periodical culture / Claire Irving -- Decolonizing education : literature, the school system, and the imperatives of political independence / Ian Robertson -- Imaginaries of citizenship and the state / Michael Niblett -- Postcolonial stirrings : the crisis of nationalism / Laurie R. Lambert -- Part III. The Caribbean region in transition -- A moving centre : the Caribbean in Britain / J. Dillon Brown -- Canadian routes / Michael A. Bucknor -- New empires : the Caribbean and the United States / Imani D. Owens -- Africa and the Caribbean : recrossing the Atlantic / Simon Gikandi -- Cross-Caribbean dialogues I : hispanophone / Amanda T. Perry -- Cross-Caribbean dialogues I : francophone / Raphael Dalleo -- Part IV. Critical transitions -- Forging the critical canon / Glyne Griffith -- Forgotten trailblazers / Antonia Macdonald -- Recuperating women writers / Anthea Morrison -- Rhizomatic genealogies : Jean RHys as literary foremother / Reed Caswell Aiken -- Writing Indo-Caribbean masculinity / Lisa Outar -- Writing and reading sex and sexuality / Margaret Grace Love.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-413) and index.
Note:"Caribbean writing from the 1920s to the 1940s has not always received as much attention as the work published in England during the 1950s and 1960s. Close examination of this earlier period, however, illustrates that a wide range of fiction and poetry was published, much of it articulating aspects of a nationalist and anti-colonialist perspective even as other projects arose from alternative historical contexts. Focusing on the 1920s, 30s and 40s also makes visible the generic and geographical diversity: poems, poetic anthologies, short fiction and novels were written and published throughout the islands as well as in England and the United States. As a result, this early twentieth-century writing represents the range of contexts to which Caribbean writing responded: the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution; migration within the region and into metropolitan locations; the Harlem Renaissance; Marxism; attention to local ecologies that also critiques the spread of global capital; the rise of U.S. imperialism in the region, the Great Depression and the crisis of British Empire beginning with the labor unrest of the mid-1930s. Consideration of single works and anthologies from the 20s to the 40s exposes the tensions between an indigenous consciousness and concepts of literary form imposed or absorbed at the junction of empire, migration and coloniality"-- Provided by publisher.
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