TY - BOOK ID - 3489814 TI - Communities in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories AU - Evans, Lucy AU - Liverpool University Press PY - 2014 VL - 16 SN - 9781781381182 9781789623451 PB - Liverpool Liverpool University Press DB - UniCat KW - Identité collective KW - Littérature caribéenne KW - Nouvelles caribéennes KW - Littérature postcoloniale KW - Dans la littérature KW - English literature KW - Ethnology. Cultural anthropology KW - Caribbean Area KW - Fiction KW - Thematology KW - Short stories, Caribbean (English) KW - Caribbean literature KW - Communities. KW - History and criticism. KW - Community KW - Social groups KW - Caribbean short stories (English) KW - Short stories, English KW - Caribbean fiction (English) KW - Caribbean area KW - Littérature caribéenne. KW - Nouvelles caribéennes. KW - Littérature postcoloniale. KW - Dans la littérature. KW - Communities KW - History and criticism KW - Littérature caribéenne. KW - Nouvelles caribéennes. KW - Dans la littérature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3489814 AB - This book examines the representation of community in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories, focusing on the most recent wave of Caribbean short story writers following the genre's revival in the mid 1980s. The first extended study of Caribbean short stories, it presents the phenomenon of interconnected stories as a significant feature of late twentieth and early twenty-first century Anglophone Caribbean literary cultures. It contends that the short story collection and cycle, literary forms regarded by genre theorists as necessarily concerned with representations of community, are particularly appropriate and enabling as a vehicle through which to conceptualise Caribbean communities. The book covers short story collections and cycles by Olive Senior, Earl Lovelace, Kwame Dawes, Alecia Mckenzie, Lawrence Scott, Mark Mcwatt, Robert Antoni and Dionne Brand. It argues that the form of interconnected stories is a crucial part of these writers' imagining of communities which may be fractured, plural and fraught with tensions, but which nevertheless hold together. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of community, bringing literary representations of community into dialogue with models of community developed in the field of Caribbean anthropology. The works analysed are set in Trinidad, Jamaica and Guyana, and in several cases the setting extends to the Caribbean diaspora in Europe and North America. Looking in turn at rural, urban, national and global communities, the book draws attention to changing conceptions of community around the turn of the millennium. ER -