Tribute to Sam Selvon (1923-94).
Author | : Selvon, Samuel |
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Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Selvon, Samuel |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Curdella Forbes |
Publisher | : University of the West Indies Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
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This book is the first comprehensive treatment of gender in the works of Samuel Selvon and George Lamming, two important West Indian writers who are rarely analysed together. It demystifies nationalist discourses and discourses of creolization showing that these have masked gender inequalities and complexities in West Indian society, and that the maskings are in turn part of a larger masking of neocolonial threads within nationalism. Forbes situates the fictions of Selvon and Lamming within the wider field of West Indian social thought and practice, and she demonstrates that gender is foundational within West Indian revolutionary action - a fact consistently ignored in mainstream discourses, including feminist ones. These two West Indians' treatments of gender belong to a revolutionary poetics of liberation in West Indian culture but are deeply compromised by the nationalist engagements and the nationalist context of the 1950s-1970s. Lamming's treatment of it, anticipates and problematizes the concepts of postmodernity and postmodernism, which have entered West Indian discourse via postcolonial discourse and the work of migration on West Indian theory and criticism. The book concludes by looking towards these discourses that are now playing major roles in West Indian thought. Forbes links West Indian nationalism and the fictions of Selvon and Lamming into a dialogue with the concepts of diasproa, postmodernity and postmodernism, raising the issue of how the latter have impacted on the representation and formation of West Indian gender identities. She then considers the implications of these discourses for West Indian writing, West Indian theory and, above all, West Indian survival and identity in a postmodern, essentially neocolonized world.
Author | : John Delaney |
Publisher | : Dictionary of Literary Biograp |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780787619312 |
Concentrates on major figures of a particular literary period, movement or genre.
Author | : David A. Richardson |
Publisher | : Dictionary of Literary Biograp |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Essays on British sixteenth-century writers of nondramatic works representative of the Tudor era. Includes articles that demonstrate several aspects of sixteenth century British nondramatic literature: innovation, writing across many genres, complex interaction between patrons and authors, commitment to education, the Protestant Reformation, political writing, new treatments of law and history, humanistic concerns and developments in professional writing as a career.
Author | : George M. Johnson |
Publisher | : Gale Cengage |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Information on the lives and works of British novelists of the late-Victorian and Edwardian era.
Author | : James Richard Giles |
Publisher | : Dictionary of Literary Biograp |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Contains biographical sketches of writers who either began writing novels after 1945 or have done their most important work since then.
Author | : Vasa D. Mihailovich |
Publisher | : Dictionary of Literary Biograp |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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An eclectic view of the book and manuscript collecting and bibliographical activity during nineteenth century Britain is presented. Subjects range from the wealthy, bibliographically knowledgeable members of the aristocrats to others who impoverished themselves and their families in their obsession. Discusses how these collections were instrumental in the advocacy of the public library movement.
Author | : James Ferguson |
Publisher | : NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Covering 20 islands and their culture, this book surveys history, geography, and current situation of each island. It offers excerpts from novels, short stories, poems, and travel writing. Including 175 extracts by Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, Derek Walcott, Martha Gellhorn, V.S. Naipaul, and others, plus author biographies and bibliographies.