The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845231260 ISBN 13: 9781845231262

Verlag: Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2011

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Reseña del editor:

Offering a range of insightful and thought-provoking critical perspectives?from publishing history to genre narrative to socio-political contexts?this comprehensive study of Caribbean short stories across the 20th century details the integral role the form has played in the region’s literary traditions and cultural production. Including single author studies as well as more wide-ranging explorations of particular periods and locales, this collection of 25 essays provides insight into a broad selection of short fiction from across the Caribbean’s linguistic zones. The essays in this resource are complemented by an extensive literary and critical bibliography and a detailed, accessible introduction.

Biografía del autor:

Lucy Evans teaches undergraduate literature at the University of Leeds. Mark McWatt is a professor of West Indian literature at the University of the West Indies?Cave Hill and the coeditor of The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse. Emma Smith lectures in postcolonial and 20th-century literature at Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan universities.

Lucy Evans is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leicester. She has published a number of articles on Caribbean and black British writing, and is currently completing a monograph entided Communities in Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories
Mark McWatt is Emeritus Professor of West Indian literature at UWI, Cave Hill. A prize-winning poet and short story writer, he has also published widely in academic journals and co-edited The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse
Emma Smith has a PhD in narrative theory and contemporary fiction from the University of Leeds. She has lectured in post/colonial literature and history at Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan universities and currently works on the editorial team at Peepal Tree Press

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• Verlag: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1845231260
• ISBN 13: 9781845231262
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 356
• Herausgeber: McWatt Mark, Smith Emma, Evans Lucy