Caribbean Passages : : A Critical Perspective on New Fiction from the West Indies / / Richard F. Patteson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Patteson, Richard F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Introduction: The Third Wave --; 2 Olive Senior Country Air & Juggled Worlds --; 3 Zee Edgell The Belize Chronicles --; 4 Shiva Naipaul Choreographer of Chaos --; 5 Caryl Phillips The End of All Exploring --; 6 Robert Antoni The Voyage In --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781685858261; 9783110784268
• DOI: 10.1515/9781685858261
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Richard F. Patteson.

Offering a critical perspective on new fiction from the West Indies, Patteson concentrates on five writers from diverse backgrounds and with differing perspectives and artistic strategies, who nevertheless share a commitment to an imaginative repossession of Caribbean life and consciousness. The writers discussed are Olive Senior (Jamaica), who combines devices of oral narratives and sophisticated plot structures; Zee Edgell, in particular her internationally acclaimed first novel, Beka Lamb; Caryl Phillips, who writes of the cultural displacement of being black in England and how this becomes a spur to "imaginative sustenance"; Shiva Naipaul (Trinidad), whose work focuses on what is lost when a new society is formed: and Robert Antoni (Trinidad), whose writing embodies the process of creolization.