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Constructing Caribbean Literary History
Author(s) -
Krise Thomas W.
Publication year - 2005
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.1741-4113.2005.00139.x
Subject(s) - west indies , literature , history , caribbean literature , caribbean region , caribbean island , history of literature , nobel laureate , literary criticism , art , poetry , ethnology , philosophy , linguistics , latin americans , ecology , biology
Responding to reviews of his Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657–1777 by historian Richard Drayton and Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, Thomas W. Krise responds to questions about the writing of the literary history of the early Caribbean, including: What constitutes Caribbean literature? How does early Caribbean literature compare to early North American literature? How should critics deal with the lack of records from oral cultures? And, should early Caribbean literature be taught, and, if so, how?