Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry - Making Style

Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are contextualized both within Caribbean cultural debates and postcolonial and feminist critical discourses in a lively and engaged way; revisiting nationalist debates as well as topical issues about the performance of gendered and raced identities within poetic discourse. Newly available in paperback, this book is groundbreaking reading for all those interested in postcolonialism, Gender Studies, Caribbean Studies and contemporary poetry.

Sommario

1 Literary mothers? Una Marson and Phyllis Shand Allfrey 2 The lure of the folk: Louise Bennett and the politics of Creole 3 Speaking and performing the Creole word: the work of Valerie Bloom, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Merle Collins and Amryl Johnson 4 More body talk: righting or writing the body? The work of Lorna Goodison, Mahadai Das, Grace Nichols and Marlene Nourbese Philip 5 Playing the field: anthologizing, canonizing and problematizing Caribbean women’s writing

Info autore

Denise deCaires Narain

Riassunto

This text provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Denise deCaires Narain
• Editore: Taylor and Francis
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 20.12.2001
• EAN: 9780415218122
• ISBN: 978-0-415-21812-2
• Pagine: 272
• Peso: 660 g
• Serie: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Caribbean islands, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets