"The Caribbean Novel since 1945" offers a comparative analysis
of fiction from across the pan-Caribbean, exploring the
relationship between literary form, cultural practice, and the
nation-state. Engaging with the historical and political impact of
capitalist imperialism, decolonization, class struggle, ethnic
conflict, and gender relations, it considers the ways in which
Caribbean authors have sought to rethink and re-narrate the
traumatic past and often problematic 'postcolonial' present of the
region's peoples. It pays particular attention to the role cultural
practices such as stickfighting and Carnival, as well as religious
rituals and beliefs like Vodou and Myal, have played in efforts to
reshape the novel form. In so doing, it provides an original
perspective on the importance of these practices, with their
emphasis on bodily movement, to the development of new philosophies
of history.
Beginning in the post-WWII period, when optimism surrounding the
possibility of social and political change was at a peak, "The
Caribbean Novel since 1945" interrogates the trajectories of
various national projects through to the present. It explores how
the textual histories of common motifs in Caribbean writing have
functioned to encode the fluctuating fortunes of different
political dispensations. The scope of the analysis is varied and
comprehensive, covering both critically acclaimed and lesser-known
authors from the Anglophone, Francophone, and Hispanophone
traditions. These include Jacques Roumain, Sam Selvon, Marie
Chauvet, Luis Rafael Sanchez, Earl Lovelace, Patrick Chamoiseau,
Erna Brodber, Wilson Harris, Shani Mootoo, Oonya Kempadoo, Ernest
Moutoussamy, and Pedro Juan Gutierrez. Mixing detailed analysis of
key texts with wider surveys of significant trends, this book
emphasizes the continuing significance of representations of the
nation-state to literary articulations of resistance to the
imperialist logic of global capital."
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