Contemporary Caribbean women's poetry : making style
DeCaires Narain, Denise, 1953-2003
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This work presents an account of Carribean women's poetry, providing detailed readings of a range of innovative poetry. Pioneering poets such as Una Marson and Louise Bennet are studied, both for their works and influences. Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are contextualized both within Caribbean cultural debates and postcolonial and feminist critical discourses in a lively and engaged way; revisiting nationalist debates as well as topical issues about the performance of gendered and raced identities within poetic discourse. Newly available in paperback, this book is groundbreaking reading for all those interested in postcolonialism, Gender Studies, Caribbean Studies and contemporary poetry.
Main title:
Contemporary Caribbean women's poetry : making style / Denise deCaires Narain.
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Imprint:
London : Routledge, 2002.
Collation:
x, 260 p. ; 24 cm.
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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-255) and index.
Contents:
1 Literary mothers? Una Marson and Phyllis Shand Allfrey 2 The lure of the folk: Louise Bennett and the politics of Creole 3 Speaking and performing the Creole word: the work of Valerie Bloom, Jean `Binta' Breeze, Merle Collins and Amryl Johnson 4 More body talk: righting or writing the body? The work of Lorna Goodison, Mahadai Das, Grace Nichols and Marlene Nourbese Philip 5 Playing the field: anthologizing, canonizing and problematizing Caribbean women's writing
ISBN:
9780415340601 (pbk)
Dewey class:
811.009928709729811.009
Language:
English
Subject:
Caribbean poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticismWomen and literature -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 20th centuryPostcolonialism -- Caribbean AreaLiteratureLiterature: history & criticismCaribbean islandsPoetryLiterary studies: c 1900 to c 2000Literary studies: poetry & poetsRelating to Latin / Hispanic American people
BRN:
1982997
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