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The present book offers a reader-theoretical model for approaching anglophone Caribbean women’s writing through affects, emotions, and feelings related to sexuality, a prominent theme in the literary tradition. How does an affective framework help us read this tradition of writing that is so preoccupied with sexual feelings? The novelists discussed in the book – chiefly Erna Brodber, Opal Palmer Adisa, Edwidge Danticat, Shani Mootoo, and Oonya Kempadoo – are representative of various anglophone Caribbean island cultures and English-speaking back¬grounds. The study makes astute use of the theoretical writings of such scholars as Sara Ahmed, Milton J. Bennett, Sue Campbell, Linden Lewis, Evelyn O’Callaghan, Lizabeth Paravisini – Gebert, Lynne Pearce, Elspeth Probyn, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Rei Terada, as well as the critical writings of Adisa, Brodber, Kempadoo, to shape an individual, focused argument. The works of the creative artists treated, and this volume, hold sexuality and emo¬tions to be vital for meaning-production and knowledge-negotiation across diffe¬rences (be they culturally, geographi¬cally or otherwise marked) that chal¬lenge the postcolonial reading process.

West Indian literature (English) --- Sex in literature. --- English literature --- West Indian literature --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- Caribbean literature (English) --- Women authors

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Earl McKenzie's pioneering philosophical study of the West Indian novel is based on three main assumptions: first, that philosophy is a reflection on the fundamental questions we can ask about ourselves and our world; second, that literature, particularly the novel, is the best method yet devised to provide a "human face" to these reflections; and third, Caribbean philosophy is at present embedded in other forms of cultural expression, like literature, and these forms need to be excavated to reveal what lies within. McKenzie examines ten novels by George Lamming, Roger Mais, Wilson Harris, V.S. Naipaul, Orlando Patterson, Jean Rhys, Erna Brodber, Lakshmi Persaud, Earl Lovelace and Jamaica Kincaid, each selected to represent differences in geography, chronology, ethnicity and gender. In this cross-section of novels, McKenzie identifies ancestral influences from the philosophies of Europe, Africa and India, and shows how West Indian fiction embodies ideas from several areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of education, social and political philosophy, ethics, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of literature. Philosophy in the West Indian Novel uncovers sections of the mostly unknown Caribbean philosophical mosaic, and McKenzie's work will encourage further study and refection on philosophical ideas in a Caribbean context. It will be of interest to philosophers, literary critics, educators, social scientists, and anyone interested in Caribbean studies.

West Indian fiction (English) --- Philosophy in literature. --- English fiction --- West Indian literature (English) --- History and criticism. --- West Indian authors --- Philosophy in literature --- History and criticism --- Litterature antillaise de langue anglaise --- Philosophie dans la litterature

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West Indian literature (English) --- Literature and history --- Historiography --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- English literature --- West Indian literature --- History and criticism. --- History. --- History and criticism --- Criticism --- West Indies --- Antilles --- Caribbean Islands --- Islands of the Caribbean --- Islands of the Atlantic --- Historiography. --- In literature. --- West Indian literature (French) --- West Indies in literature --- West Indian literature (English) - History and criticism. --- Literature and history - West Indies - History. --- West Indies - Historiography. --- West Indies - In literature.

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Modernist techniques not only provided a way for these writers to mark their difference from the aggressively English, literalist aesthetic that dominated postwar literature in London but served as a self-critical medium through which to treat themes of nationalism, cultural inheritance, and identity.

Modernism (Literature) --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Caribbean fiction --- West Indian fiction (English) --- Caribbean literature --- English fiction --- West Indian literature (English) --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- History and criticism. --- West Indian authors --- London (England) --- In literature. --- Littérature postcoloniale. --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Littérature antillaise --- Littérature caribéenne --- Modernisme (littérature) --- Histoire et critique. --- Londres (GB) --- Immigrés

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This pioneering study surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole. It introduces a fascinating wealth of relatively unknown material and constitutes a timely interrogation of the supposed homogeneity of Caribbean discourse, especially with regard to 'race' and gender.

West Indian literature (English) --- Slavery in literature --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Sociology of literature --- American literature --- Caribbean Area --- Women --- Women and literature --- Slavery in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Literature --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- English literature --- West Indian literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- Caribbean area --- Enslaved persons in literature --- CARIBBEAN LITERATURE (ENGLISH) --- CARIBBEAN LITERATURE --- WOMEN AUTHORS