The Caribbean short story : critical perspectives /
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Imprint: | Leeds, UK : Peepal Tree, 2011. |
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Description: | 357 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8516316 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part 1. Publishing Histories
- Heard but not Seen: Women's Short Stories and the BBC's Caribbean Voices Programme
- 'The lesser names beneath the peaks': Jamaican Short Fiction and Its Contexts, 1938-1950
- The Beacon Short Story and the Colonial Imaginary in Trinidad
- Political and Market Forces in the Cuban Short Story
- Part 2. Sociopolitical Contexts
- Tracing Significant Footsteps: Ismith Khan and the Indian-Caribbean Short Story
- The Temporal Aesthetic in the Short Fiction of Yanick Lahens and Edwidge Danticat
- The Shorter Form(s) of the Game: Cricket, Childhood and the Caribbean Short Story
- Part 3. Modernity and Modernisms
- Claude McKay, Eric Walrond and the Locations of Black Internationalism
- To see oursels as others see us!': Seepersad Naipaul, Modernity and the Rise of the Trinidadian Short Story
- 'I Cut It and Cut It': Jean Rhys's Short Short Fiction
- Remapping the Trinidadian Short Story: Local, American and Global Relations in the Short Fiction of Earl Lovelace and Lawrence Scott
- Part 4. Folktales and Oral Traditions
- 'And Always, Anancy Changes': An Exploration of Andrew Salkey's Anancy Stories
- Boundary Crossing and Shapeshifting: Nalo Hopkinson's Diasporic, Speculative Short Stories
- The Marvellous and the Real in Pauline Melville's The Migration of Ghosts
- Cross-Cultural Readings of the Caribbean Short Story
- Part 5. Generic Boundaries and Transgressions
- Intertwinings: The 'amazing fecundity' of Olive Senior
- 'A Kind of Chain': Reworking the Short Story Sequence in V.S. Naipaul's A Way in the World
- Liminality and the Poetics of Space in Mark McWatt's Suspended Sentences and Kwame Dawes's A Place to Hide
- 'ancient and very modem': Reading Kamau Brathwaite's Dreamstories
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index