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050 00 $aPR9210$b.B49 2015
082 04 $a810.9/9729$223
084 $aLIT004100$aHIS041000$aLCO007000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aBeyond Windrush :$brethinking postwar Anglophone Caribbean literature /$cedited by J. Dillon Brown and Leah Reade Rosenberg.
264 1 $aJackson [Mississippi] :$bUniversity Press of Mississippi,$c[2015]
300 $avii, 260 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aCaribbean studies series
520 $a"This edited collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. Since the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, scholars have exalted an elite cohort of émigré novelists based in postwar London, a group often referred to as "the Windrush writers" in tribute to the SS Empire Windrush, whose 1948 voyage from Jamaica inaugurated large-scale Caribbean migration to London. In critical accounts this group is typically reduced to the canonical troika of V. S. Naipaul, George Lamming, and Sam Selvon, effectively treating these three authors as the tradition's founding fathers. These "founders" have been properly celebrated for producing a complex, anticolonial, nationalist literature. However, their canonization has obscured the great diversity of postwar Caribbean writers, producing an enduring but narrow definition of West Indian literature. Beyond Windrush stands out as the first book to reexamine and redefine the writing of this crucial era. Its fourteen original essays make clear that in the 1950s there was already a wide spectrum of West Indian men and women--Afro-Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean, and white-creole--who were writing, publishing, and even painting. Many lived in the Caribbean and North America, rather than London. Moreover, these writers addressed subjects overlooked in the more conventionally conceived canon, including topics such as queer sexuality and the environment. This collection offers new readings of canonical authors (Lamming, Roger Mais, and Andrew Salkey); hitherto marginalized authors (Ismith Khan, Elma Napier, and John Hearne); and commonly ignored genres (memoir, short stories, and journalism). "--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aWest Indian literature (English)$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aCaribbean literature (English)$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, Caribbean, in literature.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Caribbean & Latin American.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aCaribbean literature (English)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00847477
650 7 $aNational characteristics, Caribbean, in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01904021
650 7 $aWest Indian literature (English)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01173935
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
700 1 $aBrown, J. Dillon,$d1971-$eeditor.
700 1 $aRosenberg, Leah,$eeditor.
776 08 $iOnline version:$tBeyond windrush$dJackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]$z9781628464764$w(DLC) 2014047725
830 0 $aCaribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
852 00 $bglx$hPR9210$i.B49 2015