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“A Way to Cross Over”: Caribbean Literary Criticism
Author(s) -
Oakley Seanna
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00108.x
Subject(s) - creole language , criticism , identity (music) , politics , literary criticism , key (lock) , literature , psychology , aesthetics , history , linguistics , art , philosophy , political science , computer science , law , computer security
This article briefly introduces the major themes of contemporary Caribbean literary criticism as well as the key theorists. The pertinent themes discussed are creole identity, new cosmopolitan and other alternative universalisms, migratory and diasporic identity, and the politics of language.