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The lives of others: happenings, histories and literary healing
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The questioning generation: rights, representations and cultural fractions in the 1980s and 90s
No full textCaribbean Literature and Literary Studies:Past, Present and Future
No full textThis essay summarizes the renewed and expanded perspectives on Caribbean literature made possible by the three-volume critical project to which it contributes the final essay. It then addresses three of the most pertinent issues facing Caribbean literature and literary studies as it moves further into the twenty-first century: first, how the future of Caribbean literary criticism will be shaped as much by what we rediscover about its past as by what is yet to come; second, how critical models might evolve as we reach the limit point of cascading inclusions; and third, questions of accessing and preserving literary sources (past, present and future), with a cautious appraisal of the promise of digital humanities
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Entanglements of root and branch: the queer relations of the Caribbean Irish
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All friends now? Critical conversations, West Indian literature and 'The Quarrel with History'
No full textIn this essay Alison Donnell returns to the material object of Edward Baugh's essay, published in the pages of the Trinidadian little magazine Tapia in 1977, in order to re-read the force of its arguments in the context of its own politicocultural history and to assess the significance of its publication venue. Donnell attends to Baugh's own standing in the highly charged field of Caribbean literary criticism as a critic of both Walcott and Naipaul, and acknowledges his creative contribution to this field as a poet. She also considers how, in the years between the original publication of Baugh's article and its republication, the questions of historical invisibility have entered newly disputed territories that demand attention to how gender, indigeneity, spirituality, and sexuality shape ideas of historical and literary legitimacy, in addition to those foundational questions around a politics of race and class
Introduction:Caribbean Assemblages, 1970s–2020
No full textThe period from the 1970s to the second decade of the twenty-first century has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writings. During this half century, numerous important transitions have taken place in terms of creative opportunities for writers, as well as colossal shifts in reception and recognition. Whereas Caribbean literature was too often dismissed as a peripheral, political and/or exotic sub-branch of English/French/Spanish/Dutch Literature, there is now a much fuller recognition of its creative and imaginative brilliance, as writers from the region continue to sweep the major prizes of the twenty-first century literary world. While the scope and scale of Caribbean writings produced in the twenty-first century alone would merit a volume of this kind, tracing the historical arc of Caribbean postcolonial literary cultures from the independence era to the contemporary moment brings its own insights. In particular, it affords an analysis of how transition and change have functioned as a primary ethos of Caribbean literary production and allows this volume to chart multiple Caribbean literary (r)evolutions
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Shani Mootoo: writing, difference and the Caribbean
No full textAn introduction to the journal is presented in which the author discusses various reports published within the issue including the essays of Donna McCormack on the story of Shani Mootoo's novel "Valmiki's Daughter," one by Rebecca Ashworth on "Cereus Blooms at Night" and one by Emily Taylor on Mootoo's work
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