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13 of the Best Books and Articles on: Caribbean Literature

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The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective » Read Now
by Antonio Benitez Rojo, James Maraniss. 360 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

In this section edition of the Repeating Island, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism.
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Winds of Change: The Transforming Voices of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars » Read Now
by Adele S. Newson, Linda Strong-Leek. 240 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...references p. and index. 1. Caribbean literature--History and criticism...redefining the canon of Caribbean literature, challenging accepted notions...novel ushers in a new...
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Caliban in Exile: The Outsider in Caribbean Fiction » Read Now
by Margaret Paul Joseph. 152 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The Caliban-Prospero encounter in Shakespeare's The Tempest has evolved as a metaphor for the colonial experience. This book utilizes the Caliban symbol in examining the influence of colonialism in Caribbean literature, focusing on three major writers: Jean Rhys of Dominica, George Lamming of...
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The Caliban-Prospero encounter in Shakespeare's The Tempest has evolved as a metaphor for the colonial experience. This book utilizes the Caliban symbol in examining the influence of colonialism in Caribbean literature, focusing on three major writers: Jean Rhys of Dominica, George Lamming of Barbados, and Sam Selvon of Trinidad. The novels chosen are set in England where the writers and their characters experience the alienation of the exiled--unwelcome in Prospero's home country. Other Caribbean writers are included in the analysis, and the volume concludes by examining contemporary writers for whom Caliban's role appears to be shifting beyond physical exile.
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Deconstruction, Imperialism and the West Indian Novel » Read Now
by Glyne A. Griffith. 152 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...because of the Caribbeans history of subjugation...afford to explore literature and by extrapolation...trying to define Caribbean literature as essentially...of the...
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Anancy in the Great House: Ways of Reading West Indian Fiction » Read Now
by Joyce Jonas, Henry Louis Gates Jr. 156 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This interdisciplinary study combines concepts of symbolic anthropology with traditional literary criticism to survey six novels by the Caribbean authors George Lamming and Wilson Harris. The author uses the West Indian icons of the Great House and Anancy to explore the conflict between oral and...
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This interdisciplinary study combines concepts of symbolic anthropology with traditional literary criticism to survey six novels by the Caribbean authors George Lamming and Wilson Harris. The author uses the West Indian icons of the Great House and Anancy to explore the conflict between oral and written communication and between folk culture and imperialist domination. The book's three essays discuss the collision of folk and imperialist cultures, the figure of the artist-in-the-text, and the anthropological concept of liminality as it applies to all types of oppressive exploitation. With its subtle literary readings and its philosophical commentary, this volume will be a significant resource.
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The Modern Caribbean (includes information on caribbean literature) » Read Now
by Franklin W. Knight, Colin A. Palmer. 386 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Nation, and Ideology Trends in the Emergence of a Caribbean Literature 293 Bibliography 341...versatility in exploring the main currents of Caribbean literature along with...
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Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature » Read Now
by Chris Bongie. 550 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

A comprehensive historical and theoretical study of the "creolization" process and its relevance to both colonial and postcolonial literatures, this book focuses for the most part on novels from or about the French Caribbean.
It examines the ways in which colonial authors such as Bernardin de...
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A comprehensive historical and theoretical study of the "creolization" process and its relevance to both colonial and postcolonial literatures, this book focuses for the most part on novels from or about the French Caribbean.
It examines the ways in which colonial authors such as Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Victor Hugo, as well as such contemporary writers as Edouard Glissant and Daniel Maximin, have represented the process of cultural mixing and (con)fusion to which, under a variety of names (creolization, hybridity, metissage), postcolonial theorists have increasingly turned in order to understand the complexities of cultural identity in today's transnational world. Notwithstanding the obvious differences separating colonial and postcolonial literatures, Islands and Exiles emphasizes their entanglements, mapping out a middle ground in which they are ambivalently linked to one another.
An introductory section shows how colonial and postcolonial literatures are joined in a relation of epistemic complicity that the author designates with the word "post/colonial". That relation is exemplified by the intertextual links binding together Daniel Defoe's colonial classic Robinson Crusoe and J. M. Coetzee's postcolonial rewriting of it, Foe.
Subsequent chapters include an analysis of the central text of Enlightenment exoticism, Bernardin's Paul et Virginie; overviews of Glissant's novels as well as his theoretical discussions of creolization; an examination of fictional representations of the Haitian revolution (such as Hugo's Bug-Jargal and William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!); and an extended consideration of nineteenth-century Martiniquan literature and politics.
The bookconcludes with a reading of New Zealander Keri Hulmes's the bone people, in which the author summarizes his core argument: namely, that in discussions of cultural identity, we need to maintain a fine balance between promoting the hy
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Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative » Read Now
by Belinda Edmondson. 230 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the midcentury male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly looked-& relocated-to the United States. Incorporating...
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Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the midcentury male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly looked-& relocated-to the United States. Incorporating postcolonial theory, West Indian literature, feminist theory, & African American literary criticism, Making Men carves out a particular relationship between the Caribbean canon-as represented by C. L. R. James & V. S. Naipaul, among others-& contemporary Caribbean women writers such as Jean Rhys, & Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, & Michelle Cliff, who now live in the United States. Discussing the canonical Caribbean narrative as it reflects national identity under the domination of English cultural authority, Belinda Edmondson focuses particularly on the pervasive influence of Victorian sensibilities in the structuring of twentieth-century national identity. She shows that issues of race & English constructions of masculinity not only are central to West Indian identity but also connect Caribbean authorship to the English literary tradition. This perspective on the origins of West Indian literary nationalism then informs Edmondson's search for female subjectivity in current literature by West Indian women immigrants in America. Making Men compares the intellectual exile of men with the economic migration of women, linking the canonical male tradition to the writing of modern West Indian women & exploring how the latter write within & against the historical male paradigm in the continuing process of national definition. With theoretical claims that invite new discourse on English, Caribbean, & American ideas of exile, migration, race, gender identity, & literary authority, Making Men will be informative reading for those involved with postcolonial theory, African American & women's studies, & Caribbean literature.
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Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women » Read Now
by Simone A. James Alexander. 215 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Focusing on specific texts by Jamaica Kincaid, Maryse Conde, and Paule Marshall, this fascinating study explores the intricate trichotomous relationship between the mother (biological or surrogate), the motherlands Africa and the Caribbean, and the mothercountry represented by England, France...
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Focusing on specific texts by Jamaica Kincaid, Maryse Conde, and Paule Marshall, this fascinating study explores the intricate trichotomous relationship between the mother (biological or surrogate), the motherlands Africa and the Caribbean, and the mothercountry represented by England, France, and/or North America. The mother-daughter relationships in the works discussed address the complex, conflicting notions of motherhood that exist within this trichotomy. Although mothering is usually socialized as a welcoming, nurturing notion, Alexander argues that alongside this nurturing notion there exists much conflict. Specifically, she argues that the mother-daughter relationship, plagued with ambivalence, is often further conflicted by colonialism or colonial intervention from the "other", the colonial mothercountry.
Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women offers an overview of Caribbean women's writings from the 1990s, focusing on the personal relationships these three authors have had with their mothers and/or motherlands to highlight links, despite social, cultural, geographical, and political differences, among Afro-Caribbean women and their writings. Alexander traces acts of resistance, which facilitate the (re)writing/righting of the literary canon and the conception of a "newly created genre" and a "womanist" tradition through fictional narratives with autobiographical components.
Exploring the complex and ambiguous mother-daughter relationship, she examines the connection between the mother and the mother's land. In addition, Alexander addresses the ways in which the absence of a mother can send an individual on a desperate quest for selfhood and a home space. Thisquest forces and forges the creation of an imagined homeland and the re-validation of "old ways and cultures" preserved by the mother. Creating such an imagined homeland enables the individual to acquire "wholeness", which p
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Jamaican Popular Culture, Caribbean Literature, and the Representation of Gay and Lesbian Sexuality in the Discourses of Race and Nation, in Small Axe » Read Now
by Timothy S. Chin. 20 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Jamaican Popular Culture, Caribbean Literature, and the Representation...the other in contemporary Caribbean literature -- as a way to raise certain...Culture and...
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The Two Cultures in West Indian Literature, in World Literature Today » Read Now
by Manfred Wolf. 5 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...present-day West Indian literature is so compelling is...propaganda. Not all the Caribbean islands, of course...motif in West Indian literature that goes some way...entered...
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Narrative, Pluralism, and Decolonization: Recent Caribbean Literature, in College Literature » Read Now
by Patrick Taylor. 12 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...Decolonization: Recent Caribbean Literature Patrick Taylor Taylor...Liberation: Perspectives on Afro-Caribbean Literature, Popular Culture, end Politics...Writing in Limbo:...
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Caribbean-English Passages: Intertexuality in a Postcolonial Tradition » Read Now
by Tobias Doring. 241 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Tobias Douml;ring uses Postcolonialism as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevance to, and modification by, the Caribbean experience. Caribbean-English Passages opens an...
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Tobias Douml;ring uses Postcolonialism as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevance to, and modification by, the Caribbean experience. Caribbean-English Passages opens an innovative and cross-cultural perspective, in which familiar oppositions of colonial/white versus postcolonial/black writing are deconstructed. English identity is thereby questioned by this colonial contact, and Caribbean-English writing radically redraws the map of world literature. This book is essential reading for students of Postcolonial Literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
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