Caribbean Literature in Transition #: Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-1920: Volume 1

Caribbean Literature in Transition #: Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-1920: Volume 1
Tim Watson, Evelyn O'Callaghan
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14 Jan 2021 UK
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9781108475884
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This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, including an enormous range of genres, in varying venues, and in multiple languages of the Caribbean. Essays examine lesser-known authors and writing previously marginalized as nonliterary: popular writing in newspapers and pamphlets; fiction and poetry such as romances, sentimental novels, and ballads; non-elite memoirs and letters, such as the narratives of the enslaved or the working classes, especially women. Many contributions are comparative, multilingual, and regional. Some infer the cultural presence of subaltern groups within the texts of the dominant classes. Almost all of the chapters move easily between time periods, linking texts, writers, and literary movements in ways that expand traditional notions of literary influence and canon formation. Using literary, cultural, and historical analyses, this book provides a complete re-examination of early Caribbean literature.

Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-1920: Volume 1
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1920-1970: Volume 2
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020: Volume 3

Evelyn O' Callaghan is Professor of West Indian Literature, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. Her published work includes articles and chapters on West Indian literature, particularly on women' s writing, early Caribbean narratives and more recently, ecocritical readings of Caribbean landscapes in visual and scribal texts. She has published Woman Version: Theoretical Approaches to West Indian Fiction by Women, Women Writing the West Indies 1804-1939: A Hot Place, Belonging to Us, and edited early Caribbean novels by Frieda Cassin and Elma Napier. Most recently, she co-edited Caribbean Irish Connections and Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature: On the Edge. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of West Indian Literature. Tim Watson is Professor of English at the University of Miami. He is the author of Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780-1870 (2008) and Culture Writing: Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World (2018). With Candace Ward, he co-edited the Broadview edition of Hamel, the Obeah Man (2010).
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ISBN-13: 9781108475884
Published: 14 Jan 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 235mm
Width: 163mm
Spine: 33mm
Weight: 850g
Pages: 498

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