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Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature
Leah Reade Rosenberg
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Description for Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature
Hardback. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
This book tells the story of how intellectuals in the English-speaking Caribbean first created a distinctly Caribbean and national literature. As traditionally told, this story begins in the 1950s with the arrival and triumph of V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, and their peers in the London literary scene. However, Afro-Caribbeans were writing literature already in the 1840s as part of larger movements for political rights, economic opportunity, and social status. Rosenberg offers a history of this first one hundred years of anglophone Caribbean literature and a critique of Caribbean literary studies that explains its neglect. A historically contextualized study of both ... Read more
This book tells the story of how intellectuals in the English-speaking Caribbean first created a distinctly Caribbean and national literature. As traditionally told, this story begins in the 1950s with the arrival and triumph of V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, and their peers in the London literary scene. However, Afro-Caribbeans were writing literature already in the 1840s as part of larger movements for political rights, economic opportunity, and social status. Rosenberg offers a history of this first one hundred years of anglophone Caribbean literature and a critique of Caribbean literary studies that explains its neglect. A historically contextualized study of both ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403983862
SKU
V9781403983862
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99-15
About Leah Reade Rosenberg
LEAH READE ROSENBERG is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA, where she teaches Caribbean, Postcolonial, and Atlantic studies.
Reviews for Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature
"Ground-breaking because of its subject matter, Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature is also remarkable because it opens into other original, if underexploited, vistas." - New West Indian Guide"This is important literary history and criticism, bringing more fully to light work begun on 19th century Trinidadian and Jamaican literature by Caribbean critics such as Rhonda Cobham,Selwyn Cudjoe and Evelyn ... Read more