Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature

Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature

by L. Rosenberg
Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature

Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature

by L. Rosenberg

Hardcover(2007)

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Overview

This book tells the story of how intellectuals in the English-speaking Caribbean first created a distinctly Caribbean and national literature. As traditionally told, this story begins in the 1950s with the arrival and triumph of V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, and their peers in the London literary scene. However, Afro-Caribbeans were writing literature already in the 1840s as part of larger movements for political rights, economic opportunity, and social status. Rosenberg offers a history of this first one hundred years of anglophone Caribbean literature and a critique of Caribbean literary studies that explains its neglect. A historically contextualized study of both canonical and noncanonical writers, this book makes the case that the few well-known Caribbean writers from this earlier period, Claude McKay, Jean Rhys, and C.L.R. James, participated in a larger Caribbean literary movement that directly contributed to the rise of nationalism in the region. This movement reveals the prominence of Indian and other immigrant groups, of feminism, and of homosexuality in the formation of national literatures.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781403983862
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 10/17/2007
Edition description: 2007
Pages: 260
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

LEAH READE ROSENBERG is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA, where she teaches Caribbean, Postcolonial, and Atlantic studies.

Table of Contents

The Power of Exile Under the Hog Plum Tree: Literary Claims for Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Trinidad The Accidental Modernist: Thomas MacDermot and Jamaican Literature Herbert's Career: H.G. de Lisser and the Business of National Literature The New Primitivism: Gender and Nation in McKay's Internationalism The Realpolitik of Yard Fiction: Trinidad's Beacon Group The Pitfalls of Feminist Nationalism and the Career of Una Marso Fishy Waters: Jean Rhys and West Indian Writing before 1940
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