| Description |
1 online resource (249 pages) |
| Series |
Longman Literature In English Series |
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Longman literature in English series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series List; Editors' Preface; Author's Acknowledgements; Publisher's Acknowledgements; On the Arrangement of this Book; Map of the Caribbean; Introduction; PART I DISTORTING MIRRORS: THE SLAVE ERA; 1 Reflections of Europe in the New World; 2 The Dark of the Mirror: Slave Communities; PART II ANANCY'S WEB: THE CARIBBEAN ARCHIPELAGO; 3 Barbados and the Lesser Antilles; 4 Jamaica; 5 Trinidad; 6 British Guiana/Guyana; 7 'Brit'n'; PART III TOWARDS A CARIBBEAN AESTHETIC; 8 Place; 9 Ideas; 10 Language; PART IV GROUNDATION |
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11 African (Re)possession12 India in the Caribbean; PART V ON THE FRONTIERS OF LANGUAGE; 13 Things as They Are: V.S. Naipaul; 14 The 'True Substance of Life': Wilson Harris; 15 From Crusoe to Omeros: Derek Walcott; 16 The Poet as Seer: Kamau Brathwaite; 17 The Meaning of Personhood: Earl Lovelace; 18 From Castle to Kumbla: Women's Writing in the Caribbean; Postscript; Chronology; Bibliographies; Index |
| Summary |
Caribbean Literature in English places its subject in its precise regional context. The ̀Caribbean', generally considered as one area, is highly discrete in its topography, race and languages, including mainland Guyana, the Atlantic island of Barbados, the Lesser Antilles, Trinidad, and Jamaica, whose size and history gave it an early sense of separate nationhood. Beginning with Raleigh's Discoverie of ... Guiana (1596), this innovative study traces the sometimes surprising evolution of cultures which shared a common experience of slavery, but were intimately related to individual |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism
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West Indian literature (English) -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Caribbean literature (English)
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Literature
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West Indian literature (English)
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Caribbean Area -- In literature
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West Indies -- In literature
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| Subject |
Caribbean Area
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West Indies
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317871224 |
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1317871227 |
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