1st Edition

Caribbean Literature in English

By Louis James Copyright 1999
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

Caribbean Literature in English places its subject in its precise regional context. The `Caribbean', generally considered as one area, is highly discrete in its topography, race and languages, including mainland Guyana, the Atlantic island of Barbados, the Lesser Antilles, Trinidad, and Jamaica, whose size and history gave it an early sense of separate nationhood. Beginning with Raleigh's... Read more
Map of the Caribbean.  Introduction.  Definitions.  Part 1: Distorting Mirrors: The Slave Era, 
Part 2: Anancy's Web: The Caribbean Archipelago,  Part 3: Towards a Caribbean Aesthetic,  Part 4: Groundation,  Part 5: On the Frontiers of Language.  Postscript.  Caribbean Writing as World Literature.  Chronology.  Bibliographies

Biography

Louis James