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Editore: Peepal Tree Press Ltd, Yorkshire, 2011
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Paperback. The short story has been integral to the development of Caribbean literature, and continues to offer possibilities for invention and reinvigoration. As the most comprehensive study of its kind, this important and timely volume explores the significance of the short story form to Caribbean cultural production across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The twenty original essays collected here offer a unique set of inquiries and insights into the historical, cultural and stylistic characteristics of Caribbean short story writing. The book draws together diverse critical perspectives from established and emerging scholars, including Shirley Chew, Alison Donnell, James Procter, Raymond Ramcharitar and Elaine Savory. Essays cover the publishing histories of specific islands; intersections of the local, global and diasporic; treatments of race and gender; language, orality and genre; and cultural contexts from tourism to calypso to cricket.Mark McWatt is the recently retired Professor of West Indian literature at UWI, Cave Hill. He is joint editor of the Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse(2005).The EditorsDr Lucy Evans is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leicester. She has published a number of articles on Caribbean and black British writing, and is currently completing a monograph entitled Communities in Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories.Emma Smith has a PhD in narrative theory and contemporary fiction from the University of Leeds. She has lectured in post/colonial literature and history at Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan universities and currently works on the editorial team at Peepal Tree. "The short story has been integral to the development of Caribbean literature, and continues to offer possibilities for invention and reinvigoration. As the most comprehensive study of its kind, this important and timely volume explores the significance of the short story form to Caribbean cultural production across the twentieth and twenty-first c Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
Codice articolo 9781845231262
- Titolo
- The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives (Paperback)
- Autore
- Alison Donnell
- Editore
- Peepal Tree Press Ltd, Yorkshire
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 2011
- Condizione
- new
- Rilegatura
- Paperback
- Lingua
- inglese
- ISBN 10
- 1845231260
- ISBN 13
- 9781845231262
Offering a range of insightful and thought-provoking critical perspectives—from publishing history to genre narrative to socio-political contexts—this comprehensive study of Caribbean short stories across the 20th century details the integral role the form has played in the region’s literary traditions and cultural production. Including single author studies as well as more wide-ranging explorations of particular periods and locales, this collection of 25 essays provides insight into a broad selection of short fiction from across the Caribbean’s linguistic zones. The essays in this resource are complemented by an extensive literary and critical bibliography and a detailed, accessible introduction.
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Informazioni sull’autore
Lucy Evans teaches undergraduate literature at the University of Leeds. Mark McWatt is a professor of West Indian literature at the University of the West Indies–Cave Hill and the coeditor of The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse. Emma Smith lectures in postcolonial and 20th-century literature at Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan universities.
Lucy Evans is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leicester. She has published a number of articles on Caribbean and black British writing, and is currently completing a monograph entided Communities in Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories
Mark McWatt is Emeritus Professor of West Indian literature at UWI, Cave Hill. A prize-winning poet and short story writer, he has also published widely in academic journals and co-edited The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse
Emma Smith has a PhD in narrative theory and contemporary fiction from the University of Leeds. She has lectured in post/colonial literature and history at Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan universities and currently works on the editorial team at Peepal Tree Press
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