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Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines Lup)
Lucy Evans
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Description for Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines Lup)
Hardcover. This book explores representations of community in Anglophone Caribbean short story collections and cycles of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 242 x 17. Weight in Grams: 492.
This book examines the representation of community in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories, focusing on the most recent wave of Caribbean short story writers following the genre's revival in the mid 1980s. The first extended study of Caribbean short stories, it presents the phenomenon of interconnected stories as a significant feature of late twentieth and early twenty-first century Anglophone Caribbean literary cultures. It contends that the short story collection and cycle, literary forms regarded by genre theorists as necessarily concerned with representations of community, are particularly appropriate and enabling as a vehicle through which to conceptualise Caribbean communities. The book ... Read more
This book examines the representation of community in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories, focusing on the most recent wave of Caribbean short story writers following the genre's revival in the mid 1980s. The first extended study of Caribbean short stories, it presents the phenomenon of interconnected stories as a significant feature of late twentieth and early twenty-first century Anglophone Caribbean literary cultures. It contends that the short story collection and cycle, literary forms regarded by genre theorists as necessarily concerned with representations of community, are particularly appropriate and enabling as a vehicle through which to conceptualise Caribbean communities. The book ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Condition
New
Series
Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781381182
SKU
V9781781381182
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About Lucy Evans
Dr Lucy Evans is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature in the School of English, University of Leicester.
Reviews for Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines Lup)
Reviews 'Communities is thoroughly researched and well argued throughout. It benefits from extensive fieldwork and interviews with authors and best serves as a primer for students of Caribbean short fiction, and an introduction to Caribbean interdisciplinary studies.' Janelle Rodriques, New West Indian Guide 'Evans’s analysis shows both tensions and connections between literary and anthropological representations in the examined texts, her ... Read more