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Caribbean literature in transition, 1920-1970, edited by Raphael Dalleo, Curdella Forbes, Volume 2

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Caribbean literature in transition, 1920-1970

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edited by Raphael Dalleo, Curdella Forbes

Caribbean literature in transition, volume 2Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

The years between the 1920s and 1970s are key for the development of Caribbean literature, producing the founding canonical literary texts of the Anglophone Caribbean. This volume features essays by major scholars as well as emerging voices revisiting important moments from that era to open up new perspectives. Caribbean contributions to the Harlem Renaissance, to the Windrush generation publishing in England after World War II, and to the regional reverberations of the Cuban Revolution all feature prominently in this story. At the same time, we uncover lesser known stories of writers publishing in regional newspapers and journals, of pioneering women writers, and of exchanges with Canada and the African continent. From major writers like Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, and Jean Rhys to recently recuperated figures like Eric Walrond, Una Marson, Sylvia Wynter, and Ismith Khan, this volume sets a course for the future study of Caribbean literature.--, Provided by publisher

Introduction / Raphael Dalleo and Curdella Forbes -- Literary and generic transitions. Writing at the end of the empire / Erin M. Fehskens -- Questioning Modernism : the 1950s-1960s / Mary Lou Emery -- Daily decolonization : poetry, periodicals, and newspaper publishing / Ben Etherington -- Towards a national theatre / Jason Allen-Paisant -- Orature, performance, and the oral-scribal interface / Carol Bailey -- Explorations of the self / Merle Collins -- Cultural and political transitions. Debating language / Carolyn Cooper -- Periodical culture / Claire Irving -- Decolonizing education : literature, the school system, and the imperatives of political independence / Ian Robertson -- Imaginaries of citizenship and the state / Michael Niblett -- Postcolonial stirrings : the crisis of nationalism / Laurie R. Lambert -- The Caribbean region in transition. A moving centre : the Caribbean in Britain / J. Dillon Brown -- Canadian routes / Michael A. Bucknor -- New empires : the Caribbean and the United States / Imani D. Owens -- Africa and the Caribbean : recrossing the Atlantic / Simon Gikandi -- Cross-Caribbean dialogues I : hispanophone / Amanda T. Perry -- Cross-Caribbean dialogues I : francophone / Raphael Dalleo -- Critical transitions. Forging the critical canon / Glyne Griffith -- Forgotten trailblazers / Antonia Macdonald -- Recuperating women writers / Anthea Morrison -- Rhizomatic genealogies : Jean RHys as literary foremother / Reed Caswell Aiken -- Writing Indo-Caribbean masculinity / Lisa Outar -- Writing and reading sex and sexuality / Margaret Grace Love