Caribbean literature

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Alison Donnell and Ronald Cummings -- Literary and generic transitions. Writing and the responsibility to memory / Tanya L. Shields -- Caribbean identities and diversifying the Creole mix / Shivanee Ramlochan -- Caribbean literature and popular culture / Emily Zobel Marshall -- Women's life-writing / Denise Decaires Narain -- Dub aesthetics : body, voice, and breaking the boundaries of the word / Susan Gingell -- Urban imaginaries / Christopher Winks -- Reimagining Caribbean time and space : speculative fiction / Rebecca Romdhani -- Drama and performance / Justine McConnell -- Creative non-fiction / Kei Miller -- Caribbean children's and young adult's literature / Aisha Takiyah Spencer -- Cultural and political transitions. Towards a womanist canon : feminist criticism and publishing / Simone A. James Alexander -- Writing of and for the revolution / Alison Donnell and Nalini Mohabir -- Social media and online readers / Kelly Baker Josephs -- Developing and sustaining literary publics : prizes, festivals, and new writing / Ifeona Fulani -- The Caribbean region in transition. The Caribbean and Britain / Sarah Lawson Welsh -- The Caribbean and Canada / Camille A. Isaacs -- The Caribbean and the United States / Jocelyn Fenton Stitt -- The Caribbean and the tourist gaze / Supriya M. Nair -- Caribbean subjects in the world / Kezia A. Page -- Critical transitions. Visuality in Caribbean literature and visual culture / Marta Fern�andez Campa -- From counter-textuality to intertextuality / Emily L. Taylor -- Caribbean eco-poetics / Keja L. Valens -- Sexual subjects / Faizal Deen and Ronald Cummings -- Caribbean literature and literary studies : past, present, and future / Alison Donnell.

"The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition 1970-2020 traces the region's contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and drama into emerging areas of creative non-fiction, memoir and speculative fiction with a particular attention on challenging the narrow canon of Anglophone male writers. It maps shifts and continuities between late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Caribbean literature in terms of innovations in literary form and style, the changing role and place of the writer, and shifts in our understandings of what constitutes the political terrain of the literary and its sites of struggle. Whilst reaching across language divides and multiple diasporas, it shows how contemporary Caribbean Literature has focused its attentions on social complexity and ongoing marginalizations in its continued preoccupations with identity, belonging and freedoms"-- Provided by publisher.