Institute for the Study of the Americas is pleased to announce
publication of Caribbean Literature after Independence. The Case of Earl
Lovelace edited by Bill Schwarz
You are cordially invited to the launch on Wednesday 19 March at 4:30pm
in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies,
28 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DS.
Contact number 020 7862 8846.
The book is available for purchase from
http://www.americas.sas.ac.uk/publications.htm
Caribbean Literature after Independence. The Case of Earl Lovelace
edited by Bill Schwarz Trinidad, historically located at the crossroads
of the Americas, has produced an incomparable national literature,
fashioning literary genres that have informed the Caribbean region as a
whole. One of the greatest contemporary Trinidadian writers is Earl
Lovelace, whose novelistic performative epics combine the rhythms of
steelband and calypso with the narrative complexity of Faulkner.
Lovelace was an early enthusiast for Black Power and remains an
indefatigable critic of the inequalities bequeathed by the
post-Independence state. Embracing an aesthetic which seeks out the
darkness of the nation - the traces of Africa, the passions of the black
dispossessed, the liturgies of the Shouter churches - he strives to
imagine a society which might at last break free from its colonial past,
dramatizing the political and psychic struggles of the poor for
selfhood.
This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace's fiction, and too
his larger role in the Caribbean letters.
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