Caribbean literature after independence
Subtitle: the case of Earl Lovelace
By: edited by Bill Schwarz
Contributors: University of London. Institute for the Study of the Americas
Publisher: Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781900039918
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Analys och tolkning; Caribbean literature; Trinidadian and Tobagonian fiction; History; 1962-; Trinidadiska författare; Västindisk litteratur; Historia
Other titles: Case of Earl Lovelace
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : 'where is myself?' / Bill Schwarz; title: 'I will let down my bucket here' : writers and the conditions of cultural production in post-independence Trinidad / Kate Quinn; title: Nostalgia for the future : the novels of Earl Loveless / J. Dillon Brown; title: Illusions of paradise and progress : an ecocritical perspective on Earl Lovelace / Chris Campbell; title: The crisis of Caribbean history : society and self in C.L.R. James and Earl Loveless / Aaron Love; title: Writing Trinidad : nation and hybridity in The Dragon Can't Dance and Witchbroom / Patricia Murray; title: Performance and tradition in Earl Lovelace's A Brief Conversion : the drama of the everyday / Nicole King; title: 'A limited situation' : brevity and Lovelace's A Brief Conversation / James Procter; title: 'All o' we is one' : carnival forms and creolisation in The Dragon can't Dance / John Thieme; title: Engaging the world : Lovelace's Salt as a Caribbean epic / Louis James; title: 'Beauty and promise' : sonic narrative and the politics of freedom in the literary imagination of Lovelace / Tina Ramnarine; title: On the road to Kumaca : a reflection / Laurence Scott.