Between the Bocas - A Literary Geography of Western Trinidad

Informationen zum Autor Jak Peake is a lecturer in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. Klappentext 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 chapters. Chapters are roughly arranged in chronological order around particular sites and topoi, while literature from a variety of authors of British, Caribbean, Irish and Jewish descent is represented. Zusammenfassung Situated opposite the mouth of the Orinoco River! western Trinidad has long been considered an entrepot to mainland South America.

Product details

• Authors: Jak Peake
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781781382882
• ISBN: 978-1-78138-288-2
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography; American Tropics Towards a Lit; American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography; American Tropics Towards a Lit
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous