{"product_id":"twentieth-century-caribbean-literature-alison-donnell-9780415261999","title":"Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature: Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary History","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis bold study traces the processes by which a 'history' and canon of Caribbean literature and criticism have been constructed. It offers a supplement to that history by presenting new writers, texts and critical moments that help to reconfigure the Caribbean tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on Anglophone or Anglocreole writings from across the twentieth century, Alison Donnell asks what it is that we read when we approach 'Caribbean Literature', how it is that we read it and what critical, ideological and historical pressures may have influenced our choices and approaches. In particular, the book: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* addresses the exclusions that have resulted from the construction of a Caribbean canon \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* rethinks the dominant paradigms of Caribbean literary criticism, which have brought issues of anti-colonialism and nationalism, migration and diaspora, 'double-colonised' women, and the marginalization of sexuality and homosexuality to the foreground \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* seeks to put new issues and writings into critical circulation by exploring lesser-known authors and texts, including Indian Caribbean women's writings and Caribbean queer writings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdentifying alternative critical approaches and critical moments, \u003cem\u003eTwentieth-Century Caribbean Literature\u003c\/em\u003e allows us to re-examine the way in which we read not only Caribbean writings, but also the literary history and criticism that surround them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alison Donnell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415261996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415261999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Alison Donnell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43941679202559,"sku":"9780415261999","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_2c59a208-d42c-4b04-9cf7-6d91f6592cf4.jpg?v=1681454332","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/twentieth-century-caribbean-literature-alison-donnell-9780415261999","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}