YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE LAUNCH OF:
CARIBBEAN LITERATURE AFTER INDEPENDENCE.
THE CASE OF EARL LOVELACE
EDITED BY BILL SCHWARZ
PUBLISHED BY
THE INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAS
4.30 – 6.00
WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH 2008
INSTITUTE OF COMMONWEALTH STUDIES
28, RUSSELL SQUARE,
LONDON WC1B 5DS
020 7862 8846
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 fromhttp://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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