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Author Peake, Jak

Title Between the Bocas : a Literary Geography of Western Trinidad
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (338 pages)
Series American Tropics Towards a Literary Geography LUP
American Tropics Towards a Literary Geography LUP
Contents Cover; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A Geographic Reading of Trinidad's West; Tracing a Caribbean Literary Past and the Role of the Local; Decoupling the Literary Map from the Modern State ; Beyond Sugar: Remapping Trinidad's Literary History ; Traversing Trinidad's Wild West (1783-1907); Charting the Terrain: Three Maps ; Mapping the Conquest and the Myth of Terra Cognita; Uncultivated Lands and Wild Frontiers; Conquistadors of Sense and Sensibilities; The Wandering, Innocent Eye/I in the Tropical Picturesque ; Pirates, Revolution and Creole Consciousness
Peeping Through the Partition (1927-1936)Modernist Visions, Porous Barrack-Yard Boundaries; Privacy, Private Property and Rent; The Gynocentric Yard; Dangerous Transgressions; Resisting Patriarchy and Colonialism ; Dark Thresholds in the Colonial House (1934); Setting Boundaries, Crossing Borders ; Policing the Perimeter ; Playing House in the Community; Challenge from the South (1935-1945); Oil, Possession, Labour and the Yankee Dollar; Oil; Possession; Labour; The Yankee Dollar ; The Sub-Urban Expansion (1940s-1950s); Views of the Port, City and Country
Waterside Relations: The Port, Saga and Steel BandMyths of a City and Country; From the Grass Roots to Woodford Square (1962-2010); Community, Nationhood and the Politics of Location; From the University of Woodford Square to the People's Parliament; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary This study places works by well-known authors such as V.S. Naipaul and Samuel Selvon, alongside writing by Michel Maxwell Philip, Marcella Fanny Wilkins, E.L. Joseph, Earl Lovelace, Ismith Khan, Monique Roffey, Arthur Calder-Marshall, Zenga Longmore and the largely neglected novelist, Yseult Bridges, who is almost entirely forgotten today. Using fiction, calypso, history, memoir, legal accounts, poetry, essays and journalism, this study opens with an analysis of Trinidad's nineteenth century literature and offers twentieth century and more contemporary readings of the island in successive ch
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-315) and index
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Subject Trinidadian and Tobagonian literature (English) -- History and criticism
Geography and literature -- Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidadian and Tobagonian literature -- History
Ethnicity in literature.
Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
Ethnicity in literature
Geography and literature
Trinidadian and Tobagonian literature
Trinidadian and Tobagonian literature (English)
SUBJECT Trinidad and Tobago -- History -- 20th century
Subject Trinidad and Tobago
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017295620
ISBN 9781781384565
1781384568