The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature Book

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction PART I CARIBBEAN POETICS 1. Dionne Brand and a Poetics of Diasporic Domestic Radicalism - ALEXIS GUMBS 2. Kamau Brathwaite: Grounded in the Past, Revisioning the Present - ELAINE SAVORY 3. Erna Brodber and a Poetics of Redemption - ANTONIA MACDONALD 4. Michelle Cliff: The Unheard Music - ISABEL HOVING 5. Understanding the Language of the Imagination: The Fiction of Wilson Harris MARK MCWATT 6. C.L.R. James’s Twentieth Century Literary Journeys - AARON KAMUGISHA 7. The Revolutionary Poetics of George Lamming - SANDRA POUCHET PAQUET 8. The Poetics and Politics of Earl Lovelace's Fiction - JOHN THIEME 9. V.S. Naipaul: Writer as Critic - NICHOLAS LAUGHLIN 10. The Dignity of the Examined Life: The Biographical Slant in Caryl Phillips’s Writing - BÉNÉDICTE LEDENT 11. This Space/Dis/Place Between: The Poetics and Philosophy of Body, Voice and Silence in the Work of Marlene NourbeSe Philip - CURDELLA FORBES 12. "The Voice from the Bottom of the Well": Olive Senior’s ‘Grung’/Ground(ed) Poetics - MICHAEL A. BUCKNOR 13. Derek Walcott: on Being A Caribbean Poet - EDWARD BAUGH 14. Insurgent Criticism: Sylvia Wynter’s Poetics of Disenchantment - NORVAL EDWARD PART II CRITICAL GENERATIONS 15. The Foundational Generation of Postcolonial Caribbean Critics: From The Beacon to Savacou - NORVAL EDWARDS 16. The Questioning Generation: Rights, Representations and Cultural Fractions in the 1980s and 90s - ALISON DONNELL 17. The Eclectic Generation: Caribbean Literary Criticism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century - NADIA ELLIS PART III TEXTUAL TURNING POINTS 18. Early Colonial Narratives of the West Indies: Lady Nugent, Eliza Fenwick, Matthew Lewis and Frieda Cassin - EVELYN O’CALLAGHAN 19. The Urban-Rural Dialectic and the Changing Role of Black Women: Jane’s Career, Banana Bottom, Minty Alley & Pocomania - BELINDA EDMONDSON 20. "so differently from what the heart arranged": Voices Under the Window, New Day, A Quality of Violence - VICTOR CHANG 21. Caribbean Ecopoetics: Dwellings in In the Castle of My Skin, Palace of the Peacock & A House for Mr Biswas’ - SUPRIYA NAIR 22. Prophetic Visions of the Past: The Arrivants and Another Life - LORNA BURNS 23. Race, Diaspora, and Identity: The Meeting Point, Brown Girl, Brownstones, and The Lonely Londoners - HYACINTH M. SIMPSON 24. Wordy, Worldly Women Poets: Louise Bennett, Lorna Goodison and Olive Senior - DENISE DeCAIRES NARAIN 25. Writing Gender, Re-writing Nation: Wide Sargasso Sea, Annie John, Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, and Myal - REBECCA ASHWORTH 26. "Fi wi story": Moments in the Emergence of a Caribbean Theatre We Can Own: Man Better Man, Pantomime, Lionheart Gal - CAROLYN ALLEN 27. ‘From diasporic sensibility to close transnationalism: The Agüero Sisters, The Dew Breaker and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - KEZIA PAGE 28. Rewriting the Mother/Nation: No Telephone to Heaven, In Another Place, Not Here & Cereus Blooms at Night - EMILY TAYLOR PART IV LITERARY GENRES AND CRITICAL APPROACHES 29. "No Nation Now but the Imagination": Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary Caribbean Literature - DAVID CHARIANDY 30. Dub Poetry - MICHAEL A. BUCKNOR 31. Ecocriticism: the politics of place - ELIZABETH DELOUGHREY 32. Beyond the Boundaries: Caribbean Life-Writing and Performative Liberation - LISA R. BROWN 33. Marxism: Reading Class in Anglophone Caribbean Literature - GLYNE A. GRIFFITH 34. Anglophone Caribbean and Modernism - J. DILLON BROWN 35. Splitting the Difference: Hybridity and Subalternity in the Postcolonial Caribbean - LINCOLN Z. SHLENSKY 36. Psychoanalysis in Caribbean Literature - WHITNEY BLY EDWARDS 37. Queer theory and Caribbean Writing - RONALD CUMMINGS 38. Strategies of Caribbean feminism - DONETTE FRANCIS PART V CARIBBEAN LITERATURE & … 39. The Canon /Canonicity a. Anglophone Caribbean Literature and the Canon - LEAH ROSENBERG b. Canons, Curriculums and Critics - KENNETH RAMCHAND 40. Ethnicity a. Authorial Reckoning with the Dougla in Trinidad Literature, 1929-1997 - SHEILA RAMPERSAD b. Chinese Characters in Anglo-Caribbean Literature - ANN-MARIE LEE-LOY 41. Folk a. "Folking up the Criticism": The Politics of "the Folk" in Caribbean Discourse - CHRISTIAN CAMPBELL b. The Folk in Caribbean Theatre - LOUIS REGIS 42. Gender/Sexuality a. Caribbean Literature and Sexuality - FAITH SMITH b. Male Same-Sex Relationality as Critical Trauma: Un-Knowing the Language of Heteronormative Dominance in Anglo-Caribbean Gender Discourse - CHARLESTON THOMAS 43. History a. The lives of others: happenings, histories and literary healing - ALISON DONNELL b. Re-membering History: The Aesthetics of Ruins in West Indian Postcolonial Poetry - DANIA DWYER 44. Indigeneity a. There Once was an Indian Woman Who Imagined Elsewhere and Others - TANYA SHIELDS b. Recognizing the Spirit: indigenous spirituality and Caribbean literature - KEI MILLER 45. Language a. Language and the Downpressed: The Rasta Man in Jamaican Creative Writing - VELMA POLLARD b. Language Use and West Indian Literary Criticism - MERLE HODGE 46. Location a. The Language of Landscape: A Lexicon of the Caribbean Spatial Imaginary - SARAH CASTEEL b. Memory-Work, Field-Work: Reading Merle Collins and The Poetics of Place - SHALINI PURI 47. Migration a. "Tom Say" Returns and Redirections in Caribbean Diaspora Literary Politics - RINALDO WALCOTT b. Triply Diasporized:" Literary Pathways of Caribbean Migration and Diaspora - CAROLE BOYCE-DAVIES 48. Nation a. At the Border—What Remains, Abides: Fragmentation, Nation and the Arrivant - ANTHONY REED b. Rewriting the Caribbean Nation: from Fictional to Diasporic - MARIKA PREZIUSO 49. Popular a. What is the "popular" in Caribbean Popular Culture?: Notes Towards a Response - PATRICIA J. SAUNDERS b. Killing Talk: Postmodernism and the Popular—Violence and Jamaican Dancehall Music - IDARA HIPPOLYTE 50. Race a. Black Radical Thought - ELDON V. BIRTHWRIGHT b. The Divisions that Bind: Thinking through race in Anglophone Caribbean Literature - JEAN ANTOINE-DUNNE PART VI DISSEMINATION & MATERIAL TEXTUALITY 51. Anthologizing the Caribbean - ERIKA J. WATERS 52. Political Tensions and Caribbean Voices: the Swanzy Years, 1946-1954 - PHILIP NANTON 53. "Look, we movin now": the Interface between Film and Literature - JEAN ANTOINE-DUNNE 54. Ways of Seeing: Visual/Verbal Expressions – Caribbean Writers Who Paint - KIM ROBINSON-WALCOTT 55. The Idea of the Literary in the Little Magazines of the 1940s -RAPHAEL DALLEO 56. Local and Metropolitan Publishing - GAIL LOW 57. New Media and Digital Archives - ANNIE PAUL