Caribbean Literary Discourse: Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean

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Contents list of Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part 1. fusing forms and languages: The Jamaican experience 1. songs in the silence: literary Craft as survival in eighteenth-Century Jamaica Jean D’Costa 17 2. black Wholes: Phases in the Development of Jamaican literary Discourse Barbara Lalla 42 3. The Caribbean novelist and language: A search for a literary medium Jean D’Costa 68 4. To Us, All Flowers Are Roses: Writing ourselves into the literature of the Caribbean Velma Pollard 93 5. Creole and respec’: Authority and Identity in the Development of Caribbean literary Discourse Barbara Lalla 101 Part II. language and Discourse in Caribbean literary Texts 6. bra rabbit meets Peter rabbit: Genre, Audience, and the Artistic Imagination—Problems in Writing Children’s fiction Jean D’Costa 113 7. “The Dust”: A Tribute to the folk Velma Pollard 122 viii / Contents 8. Collapsing Certainty and the Discourse of re-memberment in the novels of merle hodge Barbara Lalla 131 9. Cultural Connections in Paule marshall’s Praise Song for the Widow Velma Pollard 143 10. louise bennett’s Dialect Poetry: language Variation in a literary Text Jean D’Costa 157 11. Conceptual Perspectives on Time and Timelessness in martin Carter’s “University of hunger” Barbara Lalla 191 12. mixing Codes and mixing Voices: language in earl lovelace’s Salt Velma Pollard 203 13. opening Salt: The oral-scribal Continuum in Caribbean narrative Barbara Lalla 213 14. mothertongue Voices in the Writing of olive senior and lorna Goodison Velma Pollard 221 15. The facetiness factor: Theorizing Caribbean space in narrative Barbara Lalla 232 bibliography 251 Index 267 ...