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Caribbean Literature: History
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The region's diverse cultural influences and history have led to a unique literary tradition and Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature examines these influences and traditions, reviewing the lives and works of major Caribbean authors. Here are over seven hundred entries contributed by over 20 experts covering genres, works, themes and more.
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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.
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Because so much of the Caribbean was at one time colonial territory, literature there has traditionally been the province of the upper classes. Until recently, life in the Caribbean has been viewed through the eyes of European colonialists and their descendants, who represent a small portion of the population. However, the world is now beginning to get glimpses of the Caribbean through the eyes of the native masses. Descended from slavery, indentured servitude, and oppression, many Caribbean authors seek to express the tradition of revolt and the struggle to assert freedom that has been such an important part of Caribbean history--but so long ignored by a tradition of European dominance.
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In studying the culture and history of the Caribbean and in particular its art and literature, this guide is a valuable tool. Information on important texts, people, places, events, and significant productions is provided. This is an especially good resource for biographical information on influential people in the history of African and Caribbean theater. Index included. 269 pages.
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Tracées, originally published in 1981, is subtitled Identité, négritude, esthétique aux Antilles and consists of essays about life and literature in the Caribbean from the 1930s up to 1980. The word "tracée" is a Caribbean term for a path through a tropical forest, or for the region around such a path; the author envisions these collected essays as a rambling exploration of Caribbean literary developments, themes and styles. Antilles déjà jadisis a continuation of the "path" formed by Tracées. These more recent essays are reflections on créolité as it relates to history, geography, race, custom, and tradition. This section discusses folklore, realism, and works by Aimé Césaire and Julio Cortázar. It concludes with a brief commentary on "modernity" at the end of the 20th century.
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This history offers new perspectives on African and Caribbean literature. It provides the general coverage and specific information expected of a major history. Chapters address the literature itself, the practices and conditions of its composition, and its complex relationship with African social and geopolitical history. The book provides an account of the entire body of productions that can be considered to comprise the field of African literature, defined both by imaginative expression in Africa itself and the black diaspora. The book accounts for the specific historical and cultural context in which this expression has been manifested in African and the Caribbean: the formal particularities of the literary corpus, both oral and written, that can be ascribed to the two areas, and the diversity of material and texts covered by the representative works. This magisterial history of African literature is an essential resource for specialists and students.
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