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Caribbean revisioning of British literature is well established in creative work where it expresses itself in rewriting and writing back. In addition, Caribbean literary criticism has included an occasional rereading of imperial text (like Shakespeare's Tempest) that seems immediately applicable to Caribbean culture. Part of mature Caribbean discourse must be a wider application of the Caribbean experience to demystifying an imperial tradition. British literature, from the medieval to the postmodern, has been the training ground of Caribbean authors, poets and critics, and continues to be taught at secondary and tertiary levels throughout the region and in a wide range of countries that share the region's history of colonialism. Little has been done, however, to integrate Caribbean approaches to the canon. Postcolonialisms interrogates the place of early English verse in relation to the British canon, proposing that the first postcolonial literature in English was English itself, a vernacular literature developing from a series of contact situations and evolving as a mechanism of resistance. The enquiry integrates several approaches to textual study, drawing together on the one hand, postcolonial and Caribbean criticism and, on the other, methods of historical and contact linguistics, and applying these within a framework of thought consistent with New Medievalism. The text is framed to discuss that the society that produced Middle English literature was built on a past of contact, conquest and dispossession, with lyrics reflecting a worldview in which individual human stature shrinks and insecurity intensifies. Major texts reviewed include the Canterbury Tales, with particular attention to The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale.

English literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Imperialism in literature --- Littérature anglaise --- Littérature postcoloniale --- History and criticism --- Appreciation --- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature anglaise --- Littérature postcoloniale

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Language and culture --- Postcolonialism --- Group identity --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Caribbean, English-speaking --- Anglophone Caribbean --- Caribbean, Anglophone --- English-speaking Caribbean --- Caribbean Area --- Civilization --- Intellectual life

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""An important addition to studies of the genesis and life of Jamaican Creole as well as other New World creoles such as Gulla. Highlighting the nature of the nonstandard varieties of British English dialects to which the African slaves were exposed, this work presents a refreshingly cogent view of Jamaican Creole features."" --SECOL Review ""The history of Jamaican Creole comes to life through this book. Scholars will analyze its texts, follow the leads it opens up, and argue about refining its interpretations for a long time to come."" --Journal of Pidgin & C

Creole dialects, English -- Jamaica -- History. --- Creole dialects, English -- Jamaica -- Texts.