Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020: Volume 3 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108474009)

The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 traces the region's contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and drama into emerging areas of creative non-fiction, memoir and speculative fiction with a particular attention on challenging the narrow canon of Anglophone male writers. It maps shifts and continuities between late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Caribbean literature in terms of innovations in literary form and style, the changing role and place of the writer, and shifts in our understandings of what constitutes the political terrain of the literary and its sites of struggle. Whilst reaching across language divides and multiple diasporas, it shows how contemporary Caribbean Literature has focused its attentions on social complexity and ongoing marginalizations in its continued preoccupations with identity, belonging and freedoms.

Author: Ronald Cummings
ISBN-10: 1108474004
ISBN-13: 9781108474009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/14/2021
Pages: 486
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 7.70w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2022