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Donnell, Alison 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8722-6974 and Cummings, Ronald
(2021)
Introduction:Caribbean Assemblages, 1970s–2020.
In:
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020.
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 3
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Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-20.
ISBN 978-1-108-47400-9
Abstract
The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 traces the region's contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and drama into emerging areas of creative non-fiction, memoir and speculative fiction with a particular attention on challenging the narrow canon of Anglophone male writers. It maps shifts and continuities between late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Caribbean literature in terms of innovations in literary form and style, the changing role and place of the writer, and shifts in our understandings of what constitutes the political terrain of the literary and its sites of struggle. Whilst reaching across language divides and multiple diasporas, it shows how contemporary Caribbean Literature has focused its attentions on social complexity and ongoing marginalizations in its continued preoccupations with identity, belonging and freedoms.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | caribbean literature,history,twentieth-century,arts and humanities(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2021 00:34 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jun 2024 08:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/78270 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108564274 |
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