Writing of and for a Revolution

Donnell, Alison and Mohabir, Nalini (2021) Writing of and for a Revolution. In: Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-2020, 3 . Cambridge University Press, pp. 201-218. ISBN 9781108564274

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Abstract

While the cultural memory of revolutionary movements has remained consistently significant within Caribbean literary traditions, the imaginative shaping of what constitutes revolutionary ideals and subjects has undergone meaningful transition across the decades of the late twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Literary works have continued to engage meaningfully with the Haitian Revolution of 1791, the Cuban Revolution of 1953, the Grenadian Revolution of 1979, the Rodney Riots in Jamaica in 1968, the Black Power Revolution of 1970 in Trinidad and the late 1970s cultural – and attempted political – revolution in Guyana. This essay traces three characteristic features of a range of literary works: first, a sensibility tuned to the excess of the possible over the actual; second, a commitment to narrating the punctuations of revolutionary time; and third, a move towards testimonial forms that foreground the direct voicing of previously peripheral and silenced subjects.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	caribbean literature revolution grenada haiti cuba queer sexual,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
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	26 Jan 2021 00:34
Last Modified:	08 Jul 2025 09:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/78271
DOI:	10.1017/9781108564274.015

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