Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020

Donnell, Alison (2021) Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108474009

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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
Additional Information:	Alison Donnell is General Editor of Series and Co-Editor of Vol 3 with Ronald Cummings
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
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	26 Jan 2021 00:58
Last Modified:	10 Jan 2022 16:31
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/78285
DOI:	10.1017/9781108564274

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