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As recently as the early 1970's, scholars were able to argue conclusively for the existence of West Indian poetry as distinct from the English canon. Because much of its development occurred in Britain, hybridising with British practice was inevitable and this book makes a case for a West Indian British poetry which at first parallels and later becomes distinct from either of its parent bodies, relying instead on a cross-cultural aesthetic that continues to evolve. Early chapters examine the...

West Indian poetry (English) --- West Indian poetry --- West Indian literature --- English poetry --- West Indian literature (English) --- History and criticism. --- West Indian authors --- History and criticism

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In Simon Gikandi's view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of modernism and modernity-a relationship in which the Caribbean writer, unable to escape a history encoded by Europe, accepts the challenge of rewriting it. Drawing on contemporary deconstructionist theory, Gikandi looks at how such Caribbean writers as George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, Alejo Carpentier, C. L. R. James, Paule Marshall, Merle Hodge, Zee Edgell, and Michelle Cliff have attempted to confront European modernism.

Caribbean fiction (English) --- West Indian fiction (English) --- Modernism (Literature) --- History and criticism. --- Carpentier, Alejo, --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- English fiction --- Caribbean literature (English) --- West Indian literature (English) --- West Indian authors --- Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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Earl McKenzie's pioneering philosophical study of the West Indian novel is based on three main assumptions: first, that philosophy is a reflection on the fundamental questions we can ask about ourselves and our world; second, that literature, particularly the novel, is the best method yet devised to provide a "human face" to these reflections; and third, Caribbean philosophy is at present embedded in other forms of cultural expression, like literature, and these forms need to be excavated to reveal what lies within. McKenzie examines ten novels by George Lamming, Roger Mais, Wilson Harris, V.S. Naipaul, Orlando Patterson, Jean Rhys, Erna Brodber, Lakshmi Persaud, Earl Lovelace and Jamaica Kincaid, each selected to represent differences in geography, chronology, ethnicity and gender. In this cross-section of novels, McKenzie identifies ancestral influences from the philosophies of Europe, Africa and India, and shows how West Indian fiction embodies ideas from several areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of education, social and political philosophy, ethics, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of literature. Philosophy in the West Indian Novel uncovers sections of the mostly unknown Caribbean philosophical mosaic, and McKenzie's work will encourage further study and refection on philosophical ideas in a Caribbean context. It will be of interest to philosophers, literary critics, educators, social scientists, and anyone interested in Caribbean studies.

West Indian fiction (English) --- Philosophy in literature. --- English fiction --- West Indian literature (English) --- History and criticism. --- West Indian authors --- Philosophy in literature --- History and criticism --- Litterature antillaise de langue anglaise --- Philosophie dans la litterature

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À travers l'oeuvre de trois ecrivains des îles antillaises de la Martinique et la Guadeloupe, Corina Crainic dresse ici un portrait saisissant et mouvant de l'identite de ses habitants. C'est principalement la figure des marrons, ces esclaves fuyant la plantation pour la liberte dans la forêt, qui signe la trace de ces recits. L'identite des Martiniquais et des Guadeloupeens est particulierement complexe. Elle a oscille entre une origine africaine dont l'experience coloniale a oblitere la filiation, une integration à la France d'outre-mer jamais completement consentie, et une insertion socioeconomique sur un territoire qui suinte encore la douleur de l'esclavage. S'eloignant des figures de la negritude, comme de celles de la creolite, le marron, le seul veritable heros antillais decrit dans ces travaux d'ecrivains recents, s'ouvre sur l'americanite. Une americanite qui prend ses distances face à l'appartenance et au sens pour une identite du recommencement. L'acceptation de l'appartenance au continent n'est pas pour autant denuee de troubles identitaires et de violences propres à ces lieux de liberte et de commencement. Le lecteur quebecois trouvera dans cet ouvrage des complicites identitaires certaines. Dejà, au cours des annees 1960, les oeuvres de Frantz Fanon sur la decolonisation et d'Aime Cesaire sur la negritude avaient nourri les imaginaires. Les ecrits de Simon Schwarz-Bart, Édouard Glissant et Patrick Chamoiseau, lus à l'aune de l'americanite, ne sont pas sans faire echo à nos propres debats sur notre appartenance continentale.

Guadeloupe literature (French) --- Martinican literature (French) --- Group identity in literature. --- Maroons in literature. --- West Indian literature (French) --- French literature --- Guadeloupe literature --- West Indian literature --- Martinique literature (French) --- History and criticism. --- West Indian authors

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West Indian fiction (English) --- -Literature and society --- -Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- English fiction --- West Indian literature (English) --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- West Indian authors --- Literature and society --- History and criticism. --- -History and criticism --- Literature --- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- ROMAN ANTILLAIS DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- LITTERATURE ET SOCIETE --- Histoire et critique --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- CARAIBES