The Routledge companion to Anglophone Caribbean literature

cover image

Where to find it

Davis Library (8th floor)

Call Number
PR9205 .R68 2011
Status
Available

Stone Center Library

Call Number
PR9205 .R68 2011
Status
Available

Summary

The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work.

The volume is divided into six sections that consider:

the foremost figures of the Anglophone Caribbean literary tradition and a history of literary critical debate textual turning points, identifying key moments in both literary and critical history and bringing lesser known works into context fresh perspectives on enduring and contentious critical issues including the canon, nation, race, gender, popular culture and migration new directions for literary criticism and theory, such as eco-criticism, psychoanalysis and queer studies the material dissemination of Anglophone Caribbean literature and generic interfaces with film and visual art

This volume is an essential text that brings together sixty-nine entries from scholars across three generations of Caribbean literary studies, ranging from foundational critical voices to emergent scholars in the field.

The volume's reach of subject and clarity of writing provide an excellent resource and springboard to further research for those working in literature and cultural studies, postcolonial and diaspora studies as well as Caribbean studies, history and geography.

Contents

  • Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction
  • Part I Caribbean Poetics
  • 1 Dionne Brand and a Poetics of Diasporic Domestic Radicalism Alexis Gumbs
  • 2 Kamau Brathwaite: Grounded in the Past, Revisioning the Present Elaine Savory
  • 3 Erna Brodber and a Poetics of Redemption Antonia MacDonald
  • 4 Michelle Cliff: The Unheard Music Isabel Hoving
  • 5 Understanding the Language of the Imagination: The Fiction of Wilson Harris Mark McWatt
  • 6 C.L.R. James's Twentieth Century Literary Journeys Aaron Kamugisha
  • 7 The Revolutionary Poetics of George Lamming Sandra Pouchet Paquet
  • 8 The Poetics and Politics of Earl Lovelace's Fiction John Thieme
  • 9 V.S. Naipaul: Writer as Critic Nicholas Laughlin
  • 10 The Dignity of the Examined Life: The Biographical Slant in Caryl Phillips's Writing BÃ(c)nÃ(c)dicte Ledent
  • 11 This Space/Dis/Place Between: The Poetics and Philosophy of Body, Voice and Silence in the Work of Marlene NourbeSe Philip Curdella Forbes
  • 12 "The Voice from the Bottom of the Well": Olive Senior's âÇ Grung'/Ground(ed) Poetics Michael A. Bucknor
  • 13 Derek Walcott: on Being A Caribbean Poet Edward Baugh
  • 14 Insurgent Criticism: Sylvia Wynter's Poetics of Disenchantment Norval Edward
  • Part II Critical Generations
  • 15 The Foundational Generation of Postcolonial Caribbean Critics: From The Beacon to Savacou Norval Edwards
  • 16 The Questioning Generation: Rights, Representations and Cultural Fractions in the 1980s and 90s Alison Donnell
  • 17 The Eclectic Generation: Caribbean Literary Criticism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Nadia Ellis
  • Part III Textual Turning Points
  • 18 Early Colonial Narratives of the West Indies: Lady Nugent, Eliza Fenwick, Matthew Lewis and Frieda Cassin Evelyn O'Callaghan
  • 19 The Urban-Rural Dialectic and the Changing Role of Black Women: Jane's Career, Banana Bottom, Minty Alley & Pocomania Belinda Edmondson
  • 20 "so differently from what the heart arranged": Voices Under the Window, New Day, A Quality of Violence Victor Chang
  • 21 Caribbean Ecopoetics: Dwellings in In the Castle of My Skin, Palace of the Peacock & A House for Mr Biswas' Supriya Nair
  • 22 Prophetic Visions of the Past: The Arrivants and Another Life Lorna Burns
  • 23 Race, Diaspora, and Identity: The Meeting Point, Brown Girl, Brownstones, and The Lonely Londoners Hyacinth M. Simpson
  • 24 Wordy, Worldly Women Poets: Louise Bennett, Lorna Goodison and Olive Senior Denise Decaires Narain
  • 25 Writing Gender, Re-writing Nation: Wide Sargasso Sea, Annie John, Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, and Myal Rebecca Ashworth
  • 26 "Fi wi story": Moments in the Emergence of a Caribbean Theatre We Can Own: Man Better Man, Pantomime, Lionheart Gal Carolyn Allen
  • 27 âÇ From diasporic sensibility to close transnationalism: The Agüero Sisters, The Dew Breaker and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Kezia Page
  • 28 Rewriting the Mother/Nation: No Telephone to Heaven, In Another Place, Not Here & Cereus Blooms at Night Emily Taylor
  • Part IV Literary Genres and Critical Approaches
  • 29 "No Nation Now but the Imagination": Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary Caribbean Literature David Chariandy
  • 30 Dub Poetry Michael A. Bucknor
  • 31 Ecocriticism: the politics of place Elizabeth Deloughrey
  • 32 Beyond the Boundaries: Caribbean Life-Writing and Performative Liberation Lisa R. Brown
  • 33 Marxism: Reading Class in Anglophone Caribbean Literature Glyne A. Griffith
  • 34 Anglophone Caribbean and Modernism J. Dillon Brown
  • 35 Splitting the Difference: Hybridity and Subalternity in the Postcolonial Caribbean Lincoln Z. Shlensky
  • 36 Psychoanalysis in Caribbean Literature Whitney Bly Edwards
  • 37 Queer theory and Caribbean Writing Ronald Cummings
  • 38 Strategies of Caribbean feminism Donette Francis
  • Part V Caribbean Literature & âÇ 
  • 39 The Canon /Canonicity
  • a Anglophone Caribbean Literature and the Canon Leah Rosenberg
  • b Canons, Curriculums and Critics Kenneth Ramchand
  • 40 Ethnicity
  • a Authorial Reckoning with the Dougla in Trinidad Literature, 1929-1997 Sheila Rampersad
  • b Chinese Characters in Anglo-Caribbean Literature Ann-Marie Lee-Loy
  • 41 Folk
  • a "Folking up the Criticism": The Politics of "the Folk" in Caribbean Discourse Christian Campbell
  • b The Folk in Caribbean Theatre Louis Regis
  • 42 Gender/Sexuality
  • a Caribbean Literature and Sexuality Faith Smith
  • b Male Same-Sex Relationality as Critical Trauma: Un-Knowing the Language of Heteronormative Dominance in Anglo-Caribbean Gender Discourse Charleston Thomas
  • 43 History
  • a The lives of others: happenings, histories and literary healing Alison Donnell
  • b Re-membering History: The Aesthetics of Ruins in West Indian Postcolonial Poetry Dania Dwyer
  • 44 Indigeneity
  • a There Once was an Indian Woman Who Imagined Elsewhere and Others Tanya Shields
  • b Recognizing the Spirit: indigenous spirituality and Caribbean literature Kei Miller
  • 45 Language
  • a Language and the Downpressed: The Rasta Man in Jamaican Creative Writing Velma Pollard
  • b Language Use and West Indian Literary Criticism Merle Hodge
  • 46 Location
  • a The Language of Landscape: A Lexicon of the Caribbean Spatial Imaginary Sarah Casteel
  • b Memory-Work, Field-Work: Reading Merle Collins and The Poetics of Place Shalini Puri
  • 47 Migration a. "Tom Say" Returns and Redirections in Caribbean Diaspora Literary Politics Rinaldo Walcott
  • b Triply Diasporized:" Literary Pathways of Caribbean Migration and Diaspora Carole Boyce-Davies
  • 48 Nation
  • a At the Border--What Remains, Abides: Fragmentation, Nation and the Arrivant Anthony Reed
  • b Rewriting the Caribbean Nation: from Fictional to Diasporic Marika Preziuso
  • 49 Popular
  • a What is the "popular" in Caribbean Popular Culture?: Notes Towards a Response Patricia J. Saunders
  • b Killing Talk: Postmodernism and the Popular--Violence and Jamaican Dancehall Music Idara Hippolyte
  • 50 Race
  • a Black Radical Thought Eldon V. Birthwright
  • b The Divisions that Bind: Thinking through race in Anglophone Caribbean Literature Jean Antoine-Dunne
  • Part VI Dissemination & Material Textuality
  • 51 Anthologizing the Caribbean Erika J. Waters
  • 52 Political Tensions and Caribbean Voices: the Swanzy Years, 1946-1954 Philip Nanton
  • 53 "Look, we movin now": the Interface between Film and Literature Jean Antoine-Dunne
  • 54 Ways of Seeing: Visual/Verbal Expressions Caribbean Writers Who Paint and Kim Robinson-Walcott
  • 55 The Idea of the Literary in the Little Magazines of the 1940s Raphael Dalleo
  • 56 Local and Metropolitan Publishing Gail Low
  • 57 New Media and Digital Archives Annie Paul

Other details