The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature

by Donnell; Alison

• ISBN13: 9780415120494
• ISBN10: 0415120497
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-08-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

IThe Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literatureis an outstanding compilation of over seventy primary and secondary texts of writing from the Caribbean. Locating key writers within a specifically Caribbean framework, editors Alison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh demonstrate that these singular voices have emerged not out of disparate cultures, but rather a wealth of literary tradition which, until now, was unknown or critically neglected. All twentieth century selections, both famous and less well-known are given a voice in this remarkable anthology, which encompasses poetry, short stories, essays, articles and interviews. With accessible historical and cultural introductions to the writings, this volume is a fascinating collection for anyone interested in the literature of the Caribbean or post colonial studies, as well as an ideal teaching tool.

Table of Contents

Selected Contents: 1900-29

Introduction Prose and Poetry

'Triumph'

'Jane's Career'

'Those That Be in Bondage - a tale of Indian Indentures and Sunlit Western Waters'

'My Native Land My Home', 'A Midnight Woman To The Bobby', 'In Bondage' and 'Flame-Heart'

Tropica 'Nana' and 'Busha's Song'

'O, Little Green Island Far Over the Sea'

'The Fleet of the Empire'

'Pocomania' 1930-49 Introduction Prose and Poetry

'In Vain', 'If', 'Quashie Comes to London', 'Cinema Eyes', 'Nigger'

'Holy', 'Oh! You Build a House'

'Jamaica Oman', 'Bedtime Story', 'Proverbs'

'Listen, The Wind'

'Ancestor on the Auction Block'

'Dan is the Man' Non-fictional Texts

'Discovering Literature in Trinidad: the Nineteen Thirties'

'Contradictory (W)omens? Gender Consciousness in the Poetry of Una Marson'

'On Reading Louse Bennett Seriously'

'The Cultural Revolution in Jamaica After 1938'

'Where the Roots Lie' 1950-1965 Introduction Prose and Poetry

'The University of Hunger', 'I Come From The Nigger Yard'

'Waiting for Aunty to Cough'

'The Day They Burnt the Books'

'Carnival in Martinique' Non-Fictional Texts

'The Occasion for Speaking'

'New Wine in New Bottles: The Reception of West Indian Writing in Britain in the 1950s and Early 1960s'

'The Outsider's Voice: White Creole Women Novelists in the Caribbean Literary Tradition' 1966-1979 Introduction Non-Fictional Texts

We Must Learn to Sit Down and Discuss a Little Culture'

The Muse of History'

Afterthoughts'

Jazz and the West Indian Novel I, II & III'

I Am a Coolie'

1980-1989 Introduction Prose and Poetry

Columbus in Chains'

Guyana Lovesong',

For My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength', I Am Becoming My Mother'

Reggae fi Dadda'

Black and White'

A Letter to the Prime Minister' The 1990s Introduction Prose and Poetry: 1

Testament'

A Modern Slave Song'

Dis Poem'

The Counting House'

Mercy' Non-Fictional Texts

The Antilles: Fragments of an Epic Memory'

Beyond Miranda's Meanings: Un/silencing the "Demonic Ground" of Caliban's "Woman"'

Writing Oral History'

Challenges of the Struggle of Sovereignty'

Can A Dub Poet Be a Woman'

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