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Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories

2019-10-16 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2019-10-16
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Book Synopsis Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories by : Lucy Evans

Download or read book Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories written by Lucy Evans. This book was released on 2019-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores representations of community in Anglophone Caribbean short story collections and cycles of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.

Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories

2014 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2014
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories by : Lucy Evans

Download or read book Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories written by Lucy Evans. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English

2018-11-27 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2018-11-27
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English by : Paul Delaney

Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English written by Paul Delaney. This book was released on 2018-11-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century.

The Peepal Tree Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories

2018 Short stories, Caribbean (English)
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Release : 2018
Genre : Short stories, Caribbean (English)
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Book Synopsis The Peepal Tree Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories by : Jacob James Ross

Download or read book The Peepal Tree Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories written by Jacob James Ross. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its beginnings 33 years ago, Peepal Tree has published around 45 collections of Caribbean short stories, reinforcing the view that the short story is the Caribbean literary form par excellence. This anthology draws from those collections, plus a few guests, focusing on work written over the past twenty-five years, the majority dealing with the recent post-independence period up to the present. Though quality is the ultimate criteria, this anthology is unrivalled in its range across the Anglophone Caribbean and its diasporas, and representative of Caribbean ethnicities, gender and sexual orientations. Stories offer images of the city from ghettos to gated communities, suburbia, villages, the coastal margins. They display a range of contemporary concerns: social fragmentation, political corruption, sexual politics. They display a range of short story genres from satire, gritty realism, magical realism, fantasy, the gothic, the folkloric, horror, crime, erotica, flash fiction, the speculative... Whilst the stories in the anthology collectively offer an insightful picture of both the contemporary Caribbean and of the current status of the Caribbean short story as a form, the overall editorial aim has been to create a book that gives the reader a rich, varied and rewarding reading experience. The collection includes the work of, amongst others, Opal Palmer Adisa, Christine Barrow, Rhoda Bharath, Jacqueline Bishop, Hazel Campbell, Merle Collins, Cyril Dabydeen, Kwame Dawes, Curdella Forbes, Ifeona Fulani, Keith Jardim, Barbara Jenkins, Meiling Jin, Cherie Jones, Helen Klonaris, Sharon Leach, Alecia McKenzie, Sharon Millar, Anton Nimblett, Geoffrey Philp, Velma Pollard, Jennifer Rahim, Raymond Ramcharitar, Jacob Ross, Leone Ross, Olive Senior, Jan Shinebourne, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw and N.D. Williams.

The Short Story after Apartheid

2023-10-15 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2023-10-15
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Book Synopsis The Short Story after Apartheid by : Graham K. Riach

Download or read book The Short Story after Apartheid written by Graham K. Riach. This book was released on 2023-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Short Story after Apartheid offers the first major study of the anglophone short story in South Africa since apartheid’s end. By focusing on the short story this book complicates models of South African literature dominated by the novel and contributes to a much-needed generic and formalist turn in postcolonial studies. Literary texts are sites of productive struggle between formal and extra-formal concerns, and these brief, fragmentary, elliptical, formally innovative stories offer perspectives that reframe or revise important concerns of post-apartheid literature: the aesthetics of engaged writing, the politics of the past, class and race, the legacies of violence, and the struggle over the land. Through an analysis of key texts from the period by Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb, Phaswane Mpe, and Henrietta Rose-Innes, this book assesses the place of the short story in post-apartheid writing and develops a fuller model of how artworks allow and disallow forms of social thought.

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