Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature: Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary History

ISBN-13: 9780415262002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 278 str.

Alison Donnell

Opis

Structured around readings of "critical moments" in the literary history of the Anglophone Caribbean, this book examines:
*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 shaped our choices and approaches.
It is, then, in part a historiography of Caribbean literary history and criticism, and in part a supplement to that history. The author explores new textual peepholes, different critical approaches and alternative moments that allow us to re-examine the way in which twentieth-century Caribbean literature in English may be read and understood from a point at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
In its discussions of the issues and debates about cultural politics, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, "Twentieth Century Caribbean Literature" makes important interventions in the current configuration of Caribbean literary criticism and history.

Recenzje

'This book will extend the archive of Caribbean texts in challenging and exciting ways, and is likely to initiate more generous and promiscuous readings of Caribbean writings, as well as making a valuable contribution to debates about the local and the global which are so central to postcolonial studies.' - Denise deCaires Narain, University of Sussex

'it amounts to nothing less than a radical challenge to the canon of Caribbean literature and its repressions. It is the only comprehensive sketch of all the major blindspots of Caribbean literary history and criticism, identifying and correcting not only the exclusions of nationalist canons, but also of post-nationalist and feminist ones. Donnell thus puts into critical circulation a rich, unruly, and diverse body of literature.'

 - Shalini Puri, University of Pitsburgh

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.