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Caribbean literature after independence : the case of Earl Lovelace / edited by Bill Schwarz.

Title
Caribbean literature after independence : the case of Earl Lovelace / edited by Bill Schwarz.
Publication
London : Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, c2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Schwarz, Bill, 1951-
  • University of London. Institute for the Study of the Americas
Description
xxii, 195 p.; 23 cm.
Alternative Title
Case of Earl Lovelace
Subject
  • Lovelace, Earl, 1935- > Criticism and interpretation
  • Since 1962
  • Trinidadian and Tobagonian fiction
  • Caribbean literature
  • Trindad and Tobago > History > 1962-
  • Trinidad and Tobago > History > 1962-
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : 'where is myself?' / Bill Schwarz -- 'I will let down my bucket here' : writers and the conditions of cultural production in post-independence Trinidad / Kate Quinn -- Nostalgia for the future : the novels of Earl Loveless / J. Dillon Brown -- Illusions of paradise and progress : an ecocritical perspective on Earl Lovelace / Chris Campbell -- The crisis of Caribbean history : society and self in C. L. R. James and Earl Loveless / Aaron Love -- Writing Trinidad : nation and hybridity in The Dragon Can't Dance and Witchbroom / Patricia Murray -- Performance and tradition in Earl Lovelace's A Brief Conversion : the drama of the everyday / Nicole King -- 'A limited situation' : brevity and Lovelace's A Brief Conversation / James Procter --'All o' we is one' : carnival forms and creolisation in The Dragon can't Dance / John Thieme -- Engaging the world : Lovelace's Salt as a Caribbean epic / Louis James -- 'Beauty and promise' : sonic narrative and the politics of freedom in the literary imagination of Lovelace / Tina Ramnarine -- On the road to Kumaca : a reflection / Laurence Scott.
ISBN
  • 9781900039918
  • 1900039915
OCLC
  • 185691280
  • SCSB-10575951
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library