The West Indian Novel and Its Background

The West Indian Novel and Its Background
Author: Kenneth Ramchand
Publisher: London : Heinemann
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1983
Genre: English fiction
ISBN:

An account of the emergence of the West Indian novel in English, this work provides valuable insights into the social, cultural and political background, offering concise and focused accounts of the growth of education, the development of literacy, and the formation of West Indian Creole languages.

The West Indian Fiction

The West Indian Fiction
Author: Rajinder Kumar Dhawan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2000
Genre: West Indian fiction (English)
ISBN:

George Lamming, Wilson Harris, Samuel Selvon And V.S. Naipaul Are Amongst The Most Significant Novelists Of Caribbean Literature. The Present Volume Highlights The Contribution Made By These Writers And Also Discusses The Work Of Other Writers Including Jean Phys, Roger Mais, Cyril Dabydeen And Jamaica Kincaid.

The West Indian Novel and Its Background

The West Indian Novel and Its Background
Author: Kenneth Ramchand
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9766371512

An account of the emergence of the West Indian novel in English, this work provides valuable insights into the social, cultural and political background, offering concise and focused accounts of the growth of education, the development of literacy, and the formation of West Indian Creole languages.

Montgomery

Montgomery
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Gale Ncco, Print Editions
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-07-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781375339704

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries of the late 1970s. The Corvey Collection comprises one of the most important collections of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere -- including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry, and more -- with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers. The Corvey library was built during the last half of the 19th century by Victor and his wife Elise, both bibliophiles with varied interests. The collection thus contains everything from novels and short stories to belles lettres and more populist works, and includes many exceedingly rare works not available in any other collection from the period. These invaluable, sometimes previously unknown works are of particular interest to scholars and researchers. European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes: * Novels and Gothic Novels * Short Stories * Belles-Lettres * Short Prose Forms * Dramatic Works * Poetry * Anthologies * And more Selected with the guidance of an international team of expert advisors, these primary sources are invaluable for a wide range of academic disciplines and areas of study, providing never before possible research opportunities for one of the most studied historical periods. Additional Metadata Primary Id: B1013301 PSM Id: NCCOF0063-C00000-B1013301 DVI Collection Id: NCCOC0062 Bibliographic Id: NCCO021965 Reel: 9250 MCODE: 4UVC Original Publisher: Printed at the Office of the Kingston Chronicle Original Publication Year: 1812 Original Publication Place: Jamaica Variant Titles West-Indian adventurer West Indian adventurer Subjects English fiction -- 19th century

Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature

Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature
Author: Janelle Rodriques
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2019-04-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0429998651

This book explores representations of Obeah – a name used in the English/Creole-speaking Caribbean to describe various African-derived, syncretic Caribbean religious practices – across a range of prose fictions published in the twentieth century by West Indian authors. In the Caribbean and its diasporas, Obeah often manifests in the casting of spells, the administration of baths and potions of various oils, herbs, roots and powders, and sometimes spirit possession, for the purposes of protection, revenge, health and well-being. In most Caribbean territories, the practice – and practices that may resemble it – remains illegal. Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature analyses fiction that employs Obeah as a marker of the Black ‘folk’ aesthetics that are now constitutive of West Indian literary and cultural production, either in resistance to colonial ideology or in service of the same. These texts foreground Obeah as a social and cultural logic both integral to and troublesome within the creation of such a thing as ‘West Indian’ literature and culture, at once a product of and a foil to Caribbean plantation societies. This book explores the presentation of Obeah as an ‘unruly’ narrative subject, one that not only subverts but signifies a lasting ‘Afro-folk’ sensibility within colonial and ‘postcolonial’ writing of the West Indies. Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature will be of interest to scholars and students of Caribbean Literature, Diaspora Studies, and African and Caribbean religious studies; it will also contribute to dialogues of spirituality in the wider Black Atlantic.

Ruler in Hiroona

Ruler in Hiroona
Author: G.C.H.. Thomas
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2003
Genre: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
ISBN: 9781405002554

A novel that traces the astonishing career of the corrupt young politician Jerry Mile from unemployable bum to Chief Minister of his island, and back again.