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Beyond Windrush - Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Hardcover)
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Beyond Windrush - Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Caribbean Studies Series
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This edited collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. Since
the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, scholars have
exalted an elite cohort of emigre 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).
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