LEADER 05073nam 22006012 450 001 9910794894703321 005 20200713110815.0 010 $a1-78962-345-6 010 $a1-78138-604-8 010 $a1-78138-485-1 035 $a(CKB)4330000000005392 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001677566 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16486823 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001677566 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15014035 035 $a(PQKB)10414522 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001111441 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781789623451 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4789559 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11332308 035 $a(OCoLC)911019134 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4789559 035 $a(EXLCZ)994330000000005392 100 $a20200608d2014|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCommunities in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories /$fLucy Evans$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 230 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aPostcolonialism across the disciplines ;$v16 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2020). 311 $a1-78138-118-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Rural Communities: Olive Senior, Earl Lovelace and the short story form -- Village life in Olive Senior's Summer Lightning and Other Stories -- From country to city in Earl Lovelace's A Brief Conversion and Other Stories -- 2. Urban Communities: Downtown worlds -- Uptown worlds -- Writing Kingston in Kwame Dawes' A Place to Hide and Other Stories and Alecia McKenzie's Satellite City and Other Stories -- 3. National Communities: Fugal voices in Lawrence Scott's Witchbroom -- The journey upriver in Mark McWatt's Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement -- 4. Global Communities: The diasporic family in Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon -- Mobile readerships in Robert Antoni's My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales. 330 $aThis book examines the representation of community in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories, focusing on the most recent wave of Caribbean short story writers following the genre's revival in the mid 1980s. The first extended study of Caribbean short stories, it presents the phenomenon of interconnected stories as a significant feature of late twentieth and early twenty-first century Anglophone Caribbean literary cultures. It contends that the short story collection and cycle, literary forms regarded by genre theorists as necessarily concerned with representations of community, are particularly appropriate and enabling as a vehicle through which to conceptualise Caribbean communities. The book covers short story collections and cycles by Olive Senior, Earl Lovelace, Kwame Dawes, Alecia Mckenzie, Lawrence Scott, Mark Mcwatt, Robert Antoni and Dionne Brand. It argues that the form of interconnected stories is a crucial part of these writers' imagining of communities which may be fractured, plural and fraught with tensions, but which nevertheless hold together. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of community, bringing literary representations of community into dialogue with models of community developed in the field of Caribbean anthropology. The works analysed are set in Trinidad, Jamaica and Guyana, and in several cases the setting extends to the Caribbean diaspora in Europe and North America. Looking in turn at rural, urban, national and global communities, the book draws attention to changing conceptions of community around the turn of the millennium. * The book is the first monograph on Caribbean short stories. * It is the first book-length study to directly address the subject of community in Anglophone Caribbean literature. * The book covers the work of eight critically acclaimed Caribbean writers. * Due to the centrality of short story writing to the development of a Caribbean literary tradition, the book offers readers an accessible introduction to the broader field of Caribbean literature and culture. * With its interdisciplinary approach, the book will appeal to Caribbeanists working in social science disciplines as well as those working in literary and cultural studies. 410 0$aPostcolonialism across the disciplines ;$v16. 606 $aShort stories, Caribbean (English)$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCaribbean literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCommunities 615 0$aShort stories, Caribbean (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCaribbean literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCommunities. 676 $a810.99729 700 $aEvans$b Lucy$f1979-$01558491 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794894703321 996 $aCommunities in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories$93822920 997 $aUNINA