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Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature

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ISBN-10: 0415120497

ISBN-13: 9780415120494

Edition: 1997

Authors: Alison Donnell, Sarah Lawson Welsh

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The critically neglected literary tradition of Caribbean writing is well represented in this compilation of over 70 primary and secondary texts. Contributions cover poetry, short stories, and essays from 1900 to the present day.
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Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.37" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Alison Donnell is Lecturer in Women's Writing and Feminist Theory and Pauline Polkey is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature, both at Nottingham Trent University.

Selected Contents: 1900-29
Introduction Prose and Poetry
'Triumph'
'Jane's Career'
'Those That Be in Bondage - a tale of Indian Indentures and Sunlit Western Waters'
'My Native Land My Home', 'A Midnight Woman To The Bobby', 'In Bondage' and 'Flame-Heart'
Tropica 'Nana' and 'Busha's Song'
'O, Little Green Island Far Over the Sea'
'The Fleet of the Empire'
'Pocomania' 1930-49 Introduction Prose and Poetry
'In Vain', 'If', 'Quashie Comes to London', 'Cinema Eyes', 'Nigger'
'Holy', 'Oh! You Build a House'
'Jamaica Oman', 'Bedtime Story', 'Proverbs'
'Listen, The Wind'
'Ancestor on the Auction Block'
'Dan is the Man' Non-fictional Texts
'Discovering Literature in Trinidad: the Nineteen Thirties'
'Contradictory (W)omens? Gender Consciousness in the Poetry of Una Marson'
'On Reading Louse Bennett Seriously'
'The Cultural Revolution in Jamaica After 1938'
'Where the Roots Lie' 1950-1965 Introduction Prose and Poetry
'The University of Hunger', 'I Come From The Nigger Yard'
'Waiting for Aunty to Cough'
'The Day They Burnt the Books'
'Carnival in Martinique' Non-Fictional Texts
'The Occasion for Speaking'
'New Wine in New Bottles: The Reception of West Indian Writing in Britain in the 1950s and Early 1960s'
'The Outsider's Voice: White Creole Women Novelists in the Caribbean Literary Tradition' 1966-1979 Introduction Non-Fictional Texts
We Must Learn to Sit Down and Discuss a Little Culture'
The Muse of History'
Afterthoughts'
Jazz and the West Indian Novel I, II & III'
I Am a Coolie'
1980-1989 Introduction Prose and Poetry
Columbus in Chains'
Guyana Lovesong',
For My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength', I Am Becoming My Mother'
Reggae fi Dadda'
Black and White'
A Letter to the Prime Minister' The 1990s Introduction Prose and Poetry: 1
Testament'
A Modern Slave Song'
Dis Poem'
The Counting House'
Mercy' Non-Fictional Texts
The Antilles: Fragments of an Epic Memory'
Beyond Miranda's Meanings: Un/silencing the "Demonic Ground" of Caliban's "Woman"'
Writing Oral History'
Challenges of the Struggle of Sovereignty'
Can A Dub Poet Be a Woman'