The Caribbean short story : critical perspectives / edited by Lucy Evans, Mark McWatt & Emma Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Lucy, 1979-

McWatt, Mark A.

Smith, Emma, 1979-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Caribbean (English)--20th century--History and criticism.

Short stories, Caribbean (English).

Short stories, Caribbean (English)--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

357 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Leeds, UK : Peepal Tree, 2011.

Summary:

The short story has been integral to the development of Caribbean literature, and continues to offer possibilities for invention and reinvigoration. As the most comprehensive study of its kind, this important and timely volume explores the significance of the short story form to Caribbean cultural production across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The twenty original essays collected here offer a unique set of inquiries and insights into the historical, cultural and stylistic characteristics of Caribbean short story writing.

The book draws together diverse critical perspectives from established and emerging scholars, including Shirley Chew, Alison Donnell, James Procter, Raymond Ramcharitar and Elaine Savory. Essays cover the publishing histories of specific islands; intersections of the local, global and diasporic; treatments of race and gender; language, orality and genre; and cultural contexts from tourism to calypso to cricket. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Publishing Histories

Heard but not Seen: Women's Short Stories and the BBC's Caribbean Voices Programme / Alison Donnell Donnell, Alison 29

'The lesser names beneath the peaks': Jamaican Short Fiction and Its Contexts, 1938-1950 / Suzanne Scape Scape, Suzanne 44

The Beacon Short Story and the Colonial Imaginary in Trinidad / Raymond Ramcharitar Ramcharitar, Raymond 59

Political and Market Forces in the Cuban Short Story / Patricia Catoira Catoira, Patricia 77

Part 2 Sociopolitical Contexts

Tracing Significant Footsteps: Ismith Khan and the Indian-Caribbean Short Story / Abigail Ward Ward, Abigail 95

The Temporal 'esthetic in the Short Fiction of Yanick Lahens and Edwidge Danticat / Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw Walcott-Hackshaw, Elizabeth 110

The Shorter Form(s) of the Game: Cricket, Childhood and the Caribbean Short Story / Claire Westall Westall, Claire 124

Part 3 Modernity and Modernisms

Claude McKay, Eric Walrond and the Locations of Black Internationalism / Dave Gunning Gunning, Dave 141

To see oursels as others see us!': Seepersad Naipaul, Modernity and the Rise of the Trinidadian Short Story / James Procter Procter, James 155

'I Cut It and Cut It': Jean Rhys's Short Short Fiction / Joanna Johnson Johnson, Joanna 169

Remapping the Trinidadian Short Story: Local, American and Global Relations in the Short Fiction of Earl Lovelace and Lawrence Scott / Jak Peake Peake, Jak 183

Part 4 Folktales and Oral Traditions

'And Always, Anancy Changes': An Exploration of Andrew Salkey's Anancy Stories / Emily Zobel Marshall Marshall, Emily Zobel 201

Boundary Crossing and Shapeshifting: Nalo Hopkinson's Diasporic, Speculative Short Stories / Gina Wisker Wisker, Gina 218

The Marvellous and the Real in Pauline Melville's The Migration of Ghosts / Patricia Murray Murray, Patricia 233

Cross-Cultural Readings of the Caribbean Short Story / Sandra Courtman Courtman, Sandra 251

Part 5 Generic Boundaries and Transgressions

Intertwinings: The 'amazing fecundity' of Olive Senior / Shirley Chew Chew, Shirley 269

'A Kind of Chain': Reworking the Short Story Sequence in V.S. Naipaul's A Way in the World / Lucy Evans Evans, Lucy 284

Liminality and the Poetics of Space in Mark McWatt's Suspended Sentences and Kwame Dawes's A Place to Hide / Andrew H. Armstrong Armstrong, Andrew H. 298

'ancient and very modem': Reading Kamau Brathwaite's Dreamstories / Elaine Savory Savory, Elaine 312.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-[342]) and index.

ISBN:

1845231260

9781845231262

OCLC:

751666484

Publisher Number:

99945014348