Summary and Analysis: The Dragon Can't Dance By Earl Lovelace| Caribbean Writers| Postcolonialism
Channel: Dr. Masood Raja
Date: 2019-12-28

Summary and Analysis: The Dragon Can't Dance By Earl Lovelace| Caribbean Writers| Postcolonialism
Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance is one of the finest Postcolonial novels set in the postcolonial Trinidad. Lovelace, in my opinion, is a chronicler of the Afro-Trinidadian culture and traditions, just as V. S. Naipual, another Trinidadian author, mostly represents the Indo-Trinidadian aspects of postcolonial Trinidad and Tobago’s national cultures. "The Dragon Can’t Dance" is set in the Calvary Hill, an urban slum  and revolves around the lives of several Afro-Trinidadian characters with a special focus on Aldrick, the artist who plays the dragon in the annual Carnival tradition of Trinidad.

The Novel: https://amzn.to/39p7eGW
Further Reading:
Raja, Masood. “We is All People: The Marginalized East-Indian and the Economy of Difference in Lovelace’sThe Dragon Can’t Dance." [https://postcolonial.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/We-Is-All-People.pdf]
Cohen, Hella Bloom. "The clothing economy of Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance." [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275419983_The_clothing_economy_of_Earl_Lovelace's_The_Dragon_Can't_Dance]

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