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1920 to 1970 are key years for the development of Caribbean literature. This volume revisits important moments from that era to open up new perspectives. Collecting the major voices in the current debates around Caribbean literature, this volume explores its emergence, consolidation, and dissemination throughout the world.
List of contents
Introduction Raphael Dalleo and Curdella Forbes; Part I. Literary and Generic Transitions: 1. Writing at the end of empire Erin M. Fehskens; 2. Questioning Modernism: the 1950s-1960s Mary Lou Emery; 3. Daily decolonization: poetry, periodicals, and newspaper publishing Ben Etherington; 4. Towards a national theatre Jason Allen-Paisant; 5. Orature, performance, and the oral-scribal interface Carol Bailey; 6. Explorations of the self Merle Collins; Part II. Cultural and Political Transitions: 7. Debating language Carolyn Cooper; 8. Periodical culture Claire Irving; 9. Decolonizing education: literature, the school system, and the imperatives of political independence Ian Robertson; 10. Imaginaries of citizenship and the state Michael Niblett; 11. Postcolonial stirrings: the crisis of nationalism Laurie R. Lambert; Part III. The Caribbean Region in Transition: 12. A moving centre: the Caribbean in Britain J. Dillon Brown; 13. Canadian routes Michael A. Bucknor; 14. New empires: the Caribbean and the United States Imani D. Owens; 15. Africa and the Caribbean: recrossing the Atlantic Simon Gikandi; 16. Cross-Caribbean dialogues I: Hispanophone Amanda T. Perry; 17. Cross-Caribbean dialogues II: Francophone Raphael Dalleo; Part IV. Critical Transitions: 18. Forging the critical canon Glyne Griffith; 19. Forgotten trailblazers Antonia Macdonald; 20. Recuperating women writers Anthea Morrison; 21. Rhizomatic genealogies: Jean Rhys as literary foremother Reed Caswell Aiken; 22. Writing Indo-Caribbean masculinity Lisa Outar; 23. Writing and reading sex and sexuality Margaret Grace Love.
About the author
Raphael Dalleo is Professor of English at Bucknell University. His most recent book, American Imperialism's Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism (2016), won the Caribbean Studies Association's 2017 Gordon K. and Sibyl Lewis Award for best book about the Caribbean. He is author of Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere (2011), editor of Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies (2016), coeditor of Haiti and the Americas (2013), and coauthor of The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature (2007). He serves on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of West Indian Literature.Curdella Forbes is Professor of Caribbean Literature at Howard University. She is also a fiction writer. Her academic publications include From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender (2005), which won the University of the West Indies prize for Best Research Book (2006). She has published book chapters and essays in journals including Small Axe, Journal of West Indian Literature, Anthurium, Postcolonial Text, Ariel, and Journal of Literature and Psychology. She serves on the editorial advisory board of JWIL and Anthurium, and has authored major works of fiction including A Tall History of Sugar (Akashic 2019, Canongate 2020).
Summary
1920 to 1970 are key years for the development of Caribbean literature. This volume revisits important moments from that era to open up new perspectives. Collecting the major voices in the current debates around Caribbean literature, this volume explores its emergence, consolidation, and dissemination throughout the world.
