Historical Thought and Literary Representation in West Indian Literature

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Nana Wilson-Tagoe argues that it is in the imaginative recasting of the past, more than in one-dimensional explanations of historical processes, that we find insights in Caribbean history and that it is this recasting that has shaped Caribbean literature in the 20th century.Looking at major Anglophone Caribbean writers in three genres -- novels, short stories, and poetry -- she analyzes the ways in which history has been perceived, constructed, and...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:9766400628

ISBN13:9789766400620

Release Date:January 1998

Publisher:University of the West Indies Press

Length:336 Pages

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Literary Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Philosophy

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