Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry: Making Style

by Denise deCaires Narain

Overview

Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are contextualized both within Caribbean cultural debates and postcolonial and feminist critical discourses in a lively and engaged way; revisiting nationalist debates as well as topical issues about the performance of gendered and raced identities within poetic discourse. Newly available in paperback, this book is groundbreaking reading for all those interested in postcolonialism, Gender Studies, Caribbean Studies and contemporary poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415340601
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/19/2004
Series:	Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Denise deCaires Narain is a Senior Lecturer in English in the School of African and Asian Studies at the University of Sussex. Born and brought up in Guyana, she has also taught at the University of the West Indies.

Table of Contents

1 Literary mothers? Una Marson and Phyllis Shand Allfrey 2 The lure of the folk: Louise Bennett and the politics of Creole 3 Speaking and performing the Creole word: the work of Valerie Bloom, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Merle Collins and Amryl Johnson 4 More body talk: righting or writing the body? The work of Lorna Goodison, Mahadai Das, Grace Nichols and Marlene Nourbese Philip 5 Playing the field: anthologizing, canonizing and problematizing Caribbean women’s writing