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Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories (Paperback)
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Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories (Paperback)
Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines, 16
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This book examines the representation of community in contemporary
Anglophone Caribbean short stories, focusing on the most recent
wave of 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. It 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. It 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.
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