A Poetics of Performance, The Oral-Scribal Aesthetic in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Central & South American
| Author: | Carol Bailey | ISBN: | 9789766405427 |
| Publisher: | UWI Press | Publication: | January 31, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Carol Bailey |
| ISBN: | 9789766405427 |
| Publisher: | UWI Press |
| Publication: | January 31, 2015 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
A Poetics of Performance offers fresh readings of fictions by post-1950s writers Earl Lovelace, Merle Collins, Marie-Elena John, Marlon James and Colin Channer alongside calypso, reggae and different modes of Caribbean oral storytelling. Carol Bailey elucidates what may be termed the most consequential aspect of Caribbean literary self-fashioning: an "inward turn" to the expressive resources and discursive tools of folk and popular culture.
A Poetics of Performance offers fresh readings of fictions by post-1950s writers Earl Lovelace, Merle Collins, Marie-Elena John, Marlon James and Colin Channer alongside calypso, reggae and different modes of Caribbean oral storytelling. Carol Bailey elucidates what may be termed the most consequential aspect of Caribbean literary self-fashioning: an "inward turn" to the expressive resources and discursive tools of folk and popular culture.
