The BBC and the Development of Anglophone Caribbean Literature, 1943-1958
Authors: Griffith, Glyne
Free Preview- 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.
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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).
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-9
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Chapter 1 The Genesis of Caribbean Voices: People and Policies
Pages 11-44
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Chapter 2 The Critics’ Circle
Pages 45-69
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Chapter 3 Caribbean Voices and Competing Visions of Post-Colonial Community
Pages 71-109
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Chapter 4 A Sustaining Epistolary Community
Pages 111-139
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The BBC and the Development of Anglophone Caribbean Literature, 1943-1958
- Authors
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- Glyne Griffith
- Series Title
- New Caribbean Studies
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-32118-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-32118-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-32117-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-81201-4
- Series ISSN
- 2691-3011
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 230
- Topics
