Overview
Offers readers a view of major Anglophone Caribbean writers during their early years of creative formation
Fills a critical gap in the narrative of Anglophone Caribbean literary history and literary development
Appeals to a broad scholarly audience through its seamless intersection of literary history, literary and cultural analysis, and literary biography.
Part of the book series: New Caribbean Studies (NCARS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Glyne A. Griffith is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University at Albany, SUNY, USA. He is a scholar and teacher of Anglophone Caribbean literature and literary criticism. He is the author of Deconstruction, Imperialism and the West Indian Novel; co-editor, with Linden Lewis, of Color, Hair and Bone: Race in the Twenty-First Century; and Associate Editor of the Journal of West Indian Literature (JWIL).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The BBC and the Development of Anglophone Caribbean Literature, 1943-1958
Authors: Glyne A. Griffith
Series Title: New Caribbean Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32118-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32117-2Published: 05 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81201-4Published: 28 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32118-9Published: 23 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2691-3011
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 230
Topics: Comparative Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, British Culture, American Culture