ABSTRACT

Tobias Döring uses Postcolonialism as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevance to, and modification by, the Caribbean experience.
Caribbean-English Passages opens an innovative and cross-cultural perspective, in which familiar oppositions of colonial/white versus postcolonial/black writing are deconstructed. English identity is thereby questioned by this colonial contact, and Caribbean-English writing radically redraws the map of world literature.
This book is essential reading for students of Postcolonial Literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

chapter 1|28 pages

Rough passages

Travel and its discontents

chapter 2|88 pages

Sugar cane poetics

Planting the arts into a creole landscape

chapter L|32 pages

Turning the colonial gaze

Caribbean–English ekphrasis

chapter 6|68 pages

Writing across the meridian: epic echoes in Derek

Epic echoes in Derek Walcott’s