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Auteur(s) : Evans, Lucy (1979-....)
Titre(s) : Communities in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories [Texte imprimé] / Lucy Evans
Publication : Liverpool (GB) : Liverpool university press, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-230 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 16
Lien à la collection : Postcolonialism across the disciplines
Comprend : 1. Rural Communities: Olive Senior, Earl Lovelace and the short story form ; Village
life in Olive Senior's Summer Lightning and Other Stories ; From country to city
in Earl Lovelace's A Brief Conversion and Other Stories ; 2. Urban Communities: Downtown
worlds ; Uptown worlds ; Writing Kingston in Kwame Dawes' A Place to Hide and Other
Stories and Alecia McKenzie's Satellite City and Other Stories ; 3. National Communities:
Fugal voices in Lawrence Scott's Witchbroom ; The journey upriver in Mark McWatt's
Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement ; 4. Global Communities: The diasporic
family in Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon ; Mobile readerships
in Robert Antoni's My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-224) and index
Texte rmanié de : Thesis Ph. D. : Leeds (GB), University of Leeds
This book examines the representation of community in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean
short stories, focusing on the most recent wave of Anglophone 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. Lucy Evans 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 covers short story collections and
cycles by Olive Senior, Earl Lovelace, Kwame Dawes, Alecia Mckenzie, Lawrence Scott,
Mark McWatt, Robert Antoni and Dionne Brand, and argues that the form of interconnected
stories is a crucial part of these writers' imagining of communities, which may be
fractured, plural and fraught with tensions, but which nevertheless hold together.
The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of community, bringing literary
representations of community into dialogue with models of community developed in the
field of Caribbean anthropology. The works analysed are set in Trinidad, Jamaica and
Guyana, and in several cases the setting extends to the Caribbean diaspora in Europe
and North America. Looking in turn at rural, urban, national and global communities,
the book draws attention to changing conceptions of community around the turn of the
millennium
Sujet(s) : Nouvelles antillaises de langue anglaise -- Thèmes, motifs
Nouvelles caribéennes -- Thèmes, motifs
Communautés -- Dans la littérature
Indice(s) Dewey :
823.010 99729 (23e éd.) = Nouvelles de langue anglaise - Histoire et critique - Antilles et Bermudes
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1781381186. - ISBN 9781781381182 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44240575g
Notice n° :
FRBNF44240575
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