The Caribbean short story : critical perspectives /

The Caribbean short story : critical perspectives /

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Imprint:Leeds, UK : Peepal Tree, 2011.
Description:357 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Short stories, Caribbean (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Short stories, Caribbean (English) -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Caribbean fiction (English) -- History and criticism.
Caribbean fiction (English)
Short stories, Caribbean (English)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8516316
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Other authors / contributors:Evans, Lucy, 1979-
McWatt, Mark A.
Smith, Emma, 1979-
ISBN:9781845231262 (pbk.)
1845231260 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-[342]) and index.
Summary:"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."--P. [4] of cover.
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
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