Postscripts : Caribbean Perspectives on the British Ccanon from Shakespeare to Dickens / edited by Giselle Rampaul and Barbara Lalla.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism--Caribbean authors.

English literature.

Nationalism and literature.

Colonies.

Authors, Caribbean.

Great Britain--Colonies--In literature.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--West Indies--In literature.

Nationalism and literature--Great Britain.

West Indies.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

181 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jamaica : The University of the West Indies Press, 2014.

Summary:

"By adopting a Caribbean perspective through which to re-examine seventeenth- to nineteenth- century texts from the British canon, this collection of essays uncovers the ways in which the literature produced at the height of British imperialism was used to consolidate and validate the national identity of the colonizer, and to justify political and cultural domination of Other places like the Caribbean. The contributors critique a wide range of verse and prose from the works of Shakespeare, Donne, Defoe, Austen, Brontë, Froude, Kingsley, Trollope, Jenkins, Stevenson, Barrie, Carroll and Dickens, revealing a literature that was very much a product of its time, but that was also responsible for contemporary and later conceptions of the Caribbean and other outposts of empire"--Back cover.

Contents:

1 Dickens and Others: Metastance and Re-memberung / Barbara Lalla Lalla, Barbara 8

2 "How Blest Am I...!": Colonial Desire in Selected Poetry by John Donne / Giselle Rampaul Rampaul, Giselle 27

3 Recovering Nation, Recovering Woman: Shakespeare's Cressida and the Imperial Attic / Genevieve Ruth Phagoo Phagoo, Genevieve Ruth 43

4 Far-off Places and the Invention of Englishness: Rereading Robinson Crusoe as Romance / Rhonda Kareen Harrison Harrison, Rhonda Kareen 79

5 Froude, Kingsley and Trollope: Wandering Eyes in a Trinidadian Landscape / Jak Peake Peake, Jak 98

6 A Study of the Imperial Gaze: Jenkins's Lutchmee and Dilloo: A Study of West Indian Life / J. Vijay Maharaj Maharaj, J. Vijay 124

7 Strange Creatures and Fantastic Worlds: The Other in Selected Nineteenth-Century Children's Texts / Giselle Rampaul Rampaul, Giselle 154.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789766404628

9766404623

OCLC:

882271281