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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155314303321

Autore

Griffith Glyne A

Titolo

The BBC and the Development of Anglophone Caribbean Literature, 1943-1958 / / by Glyne A. Griffith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-32118-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 230 p.)

Collana

New Caribbean Studies, , 2691-3011

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Comparative literature

Literature, Modern—20th century

Literature   

Ethnology—Europe

United States—Study and teaching

Comparative Literature

Twentieth-Century Literature

Postcolonial/World Literature

British Culture

American Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The Genesis of Caribbean Voices: People and Policies -- The Critics’ Circle -- Caribbean Voices and Competing Visions of Post-Colonial Community -- A Sustaining Epistolarly Community -- The Naipaul / Mittelholzer Years: 1954-58 -- Afterword. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first to analyse how BBC radio presented Anglophone Caribbean literature and in turn aided and influenced the shape of imaginative writing in the region. Glyne A. Griffith examines Caribbean Voices broadcasts to the region over a fifteen-year period and reveals that though the program’s funding was colonial in orientation, the content and form were antithetical to the very colonial enterprise that had brought the program into existence. Part literary history and part literary biography, this study fills a gap in the narrative of the region’s



literary history. .