LEADER 03978nam 22004812 450 001 9910794801703321 005 20190215152736.0 010 $a1-78138-456-8 035 $a(CKB)4340000000192802 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781384565 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4926468 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11418123 035 $a(OCoLC)999670186 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4926468 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000192802 100 $a20170307d2017|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBetween the Bocas $ea literary geography of Western Trinidad /$fJak Peake$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 326 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aAmerican tropics : towards a literary geography 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2018). 311 $a1-78138-288-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aSituated opposite the mouth of the Orinoco River, western Trinidad has long been considered an entrepo?t to mainland South America. Trinidad's geographic position-seen as strategic by various imperial governments-led to many heterogeneous peoples from across the region and globe settling or being relocated there. The calm waters around the Gulf of Paria on the western fringes of Trinidad induced settlers to construct a harbour, Port of Spain, around which the modern capital has been formed. From its colonial roots into the postcolonial era, western Trinidad therefore has played an especial part in the shaping of the island's literature. Viewed from one perspective, western Trinidad might be deemed as narrating the heart of the modern state's national literature. Alternatively, the political threats posed around San Fernando in Trinidad's southwest in the 1930s and from within the capital in the 1970s present a different picture of western Trinidad-one in which the fractures of Trinidad and Tobago's projected nationalism are prevalent.

While sugar remains a dominant narrative in Caribbean literary studies, this book offers a unique literary perspective on matters too often perceived as the sole preserve of sociological, anthropological or geographical studies. The legacy of the oil industry and the development of the suburban commuter belt of East-West Corridor, therefore, form considerable discursive nodes, alongside other key Trinidadian sites, such as Woodford Square, colonial houses and the urban yards of Port of Spain. This study places works by well-known authors such as V. S. Naipaul and Samuel Selvon, alongside writing by Michel Maxwell Philip, Marcella Fanny Wilkins, E. L. Joseph, Earl Lovelace, Ismith Khan, Monique Roffey, Arthur Calder-Marshall, Zenga Longmore and the largely neglected novelist, Yseult Bridges, who is almost entirely forgotten today. Using fiction, calypso, history, memoir, legal accounts, poetry, essays and journalism, this study opens with an analysis of Trinidad's nineteenth century literature and offers twentieth century and more contemporary readings of the island in successive chapters. Chapters are roughly arranged in chronological order around particular sites and topoi, while literature from a variety of authors of British, Caribbean, Irish and Jewish descent is represented.

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