ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work.
The volume is divided into six sections that consider:
- the foremost figures of the Anglophone Caribbean literary tradition and a history of literary critical debate
- textual turning points, identifying key moments in both literary and critical history and bringing lesser known works into context
- fresh perspectives on enduring and contentious critical issues including the canon, nation, race, gender, popular culture and migration
- new directions for literary criticism and theory, such as eco-criticism, psychoanalysis and queer studies
- the material dissemination of Anglophone Caribbean literature and generic interfaces with film and visual art
This volume is an essential text that brings together sixty-nine entries from scholars across three generations of Caribbean literary studies, ranging from foundational critical voices to emergent scholars in the field.
The volume's reach of subject and clarity of writing provide an excellent resource and springboard to further research for those working in literature and cultural studies, postcolonial and diaspora studies as well as Caribbean studies, history and geography.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |108 pages
Caribbean Poetics
chapter |7 pages
Marlene Nourbese Philip
part |38 pages
Critical Generations
chapter |12 pages
The Questioning Generation
chapter |11 pages
The Eclectic Generation
part |96 pages
Textual Turning Points
chapter |8 pages
Early Colonial Narratives of the West Indies
chapter |8 pages
The Urban–Rural Dialectic and the Changing Role of Black Women
chapter |8 pages
‘So Differently from what the Heart Arranged'
chapter |8 pages
Caribbean Ecopoetics
chapter |8 pages
Race, Diaspora and Identity
chapter |9 pages
Writing Gender, Re-Writing Nation
chapter |8 pages
‘Fi Wi Story': Moments in the Emergence of a Caribbean Theatre we Can Own
chapter |8 pages
From Diasporic Sensibility to Close Transnationalism
chapter |9 pages
Rewriting the Mother/Nation
part |101 pages
Literary Genres and Critical Approaches
chapter |10 pages
Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary Caribbean Literature
part |227 pages
Caribbean Literature and …
chapter |10 pages
Folk (a) ‘Folking up the Criticism'
chapter |10 pages
(b) Male Same-Sex Relationality as Critical Trauma
chapter |10 pages
Language (a) Language and the Downpressed
chapter |10 pages
Location (a) The Language of Landscape
chapter |9 pages
Migration (a) Returns and Redirections in Caribbean Diaspora Literary Politics
chapter |9 pages
Nation (a) At the Border – What Remains, Abides
chapter |8 pages
(b) Rewriting the Caribbean Nation
chapter |10 pages
Popular (a) What is the ‘Popular' in Caribbean Popular Culture?
chapter |10 pages
(b) Killing Talk
chapter |9 pages
(b) The Divisions that Bind
part |63 pages
Dissemination and Material Textuality