Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry: Making Style

ISBN-13: 9780415218122 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 272 str.

Denise Decaires Narain; Denise Narain; Denise Narain Decaires

Opis

Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are contextualized both within Caribbean cultural debates and postcolonial and feminist critical discourses in a lively and engaged way; revisiting nationalist debates as well as topical issues about the performance of gendered and raced identities within poetic discourse. Newly available in paperback, this book is groundbreaking reading for all those interested in postcolonialism, Gender Studies, Caribbean Studies and contemporary poetry.

Spis treści

1 Literary mothers? Una Marson and Phyllis Shand Allfrey 2 The lure of the folk: Louise Bennett and the politics of Creole 3 Speaking and performing the Creole word: the work of Valerie Bloom, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Merle Collins and Amryl Johnson 4 More body talk: righting or writing the body? The work of Lorna Goodison, Mahadai Das, Grace Nichols and Marlene Nourbese Philip 5 Playing the field: anthologizing, canonizing and problematizing Caribbean women’s writing

O autorze

Denise deCaires Narain