A Companion to West Indian Literature
Author : Michael Hughes
Publisher : [London] : Collins
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Michael Hughes
Publisher : [London] : Collins
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth Ramchand
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9766371512
An account of the emergence of the West Indian novel in English, this work provides valuable insights into the social, cultural and political background, offering concise and focused accounts of the growth of education, the development of literacy, and the formation of West Indian Creole languages.
Author : Bruce King
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 11,68 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
An academic critical history and survey of West Indian literature in English.
Author : Kenneth Ramchand
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Caribbean literature (English)
ISBN :
Author : Lloyd Wellesley Brown
Publisher : London : Heinemann ; Exeter, N.H., USA : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Laurence A. Breiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 1998-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521587129
This introduction to West Indian poetry is written for readers making their first approach to the poetry of the Caribbean written in English. It offers a comprehensive literary history from the 1920s to the 1980s, with particular attention to the relationship of West Indian poetry to European, African and American literature. Close readings of individual poems give detailed analysis of social and cultural issues at work in the writing. Laurence Breiner's exposition speaks powerfully about the defining forces in Caribbean culture from colonialism to resistance and decolonization.
Author : Daizal R. Samad
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1398463795
WHOLENESS AND HOME IN WEST INDIAN LITERATURE is an invaluable resource for everyone who has an interest in West Indian literature or Culture, West Indian Society or History, Ethnic Tensions, and Psychic Heterogeneity. It is especially useful for university and secondary school students and teachers who teach or need to learn about writers from the West Indies. It offers unique critical insights into the works of globally renowned writers who hail from the Caribbean: V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, Wilson Harris, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, John Hearn, Jean Rhys, and Derek Walcott. WHOLENESS AND HOME is important reading for any student of ethnic relations. The book focuses on the possibilities of a culture that had its very beginnings in genocide and in the forced or fraudulent fetching of human beings from many other places. These people were pitted against each other to ensure division and assure plantation profitability. This book examines how major West Indian writers capture this initial ethnic antagonism that now infects much of the world. WHOLENESS AND HOME also insists on the futility of racism and bigotry by pointing to the enormous potential for social harmony. At the very least, Samad and Harripersaud offer excellent examples of essay writing for teachers and students, especially those at the university and college levels.
Author : Edward Baugh
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Mervyn Morris
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9766371741
"West Indian Literature, as a body of work, is a fairly recent phenomenon; and literary criticism has not always acknowledged the diversity of approaches to writing effectively. In Making West Indian Literature poet and critic Mervyn Morris explores examples of West Indian creativity shaping a range of responses to experience, which often includes colonial traces. Appreciating various kinds of making and a number of West Indian makers, these engaging essays and interviews display a recurrent interest in the processes of composition. Some of the prices highlight writer-performers who have not often been examined. This very readable book, often personal in tone, makes a distinctive contribution to the knowledge and understanding of West Indian Literature. "
Author : Nana Wilson-Tagoe
Publisher : University of West Indies Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,55 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789766400620
Nana Wilson-Tagoe argues that it is in the imaginative recasting of the past, more than in one-dimensional explanations of historical processes, that we find insights in Caribbean history and that it is this recasting that has shaped Caribbean literature in the 20th century.Looking at major Anglophone Caribbean writers in three genres -- novels, short stories, and poetry -- she analyzes the ways in which history has been perceived, constructed, and used in West Indian literature. In that context she explores the interplay of reality and the fantastic; history and the imagination; myth and ancestral memory; timebound conceptions of the West Indies and the timeless values of life there. While discussion focuses on the interface between literature and historiography, it also addresses issues in sociology, political science, and philosophy.Wilson-Tagoe's work will appeal to students of Caribbean literature but also and particularly to scholars who study the black Atlantic world, both on its own terms and in its relations with Western society and Africa.