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Poetry --- English literature --- Caribbean Area --- Caribbean area --- POESIE ANTILLAISE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- ANGLAIS (LANGUE) --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- BIBLIOGRAPHIE --- CARAIBES --- STYLE

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English literature --- Caribbean Area --- Caribbean literature (English) --- Littérature antillaise (anglaise) --- Caribbean literature (English). --- Littérature antillaise (anglaise) --- Caribbean area --- Caribbean literature --- Caribbean Free Trade Association countries --- Caribbean Region --- Caribbean Sea Region --- West Indies Region --- Literary collections. --- LITTERATURE ANTILLAISE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- POESIE ANTILLAISE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- ROMAN ANTILLAIS DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- THEATRE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) ANTILLAIS DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- ANTHOLOGIE

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This introduction to West Indian poetry is written for readers making their first approach to poetry in English written in the Caribbean. It offers a comprehensive literary history from the 1920s to the 1980s, with particular attention to the relationship of West Indian poetry to European, African and American literature. Close readings of individual poems give detailed analysis of social and cultural issues at work in the writing. Laurence Breiner's exposition speaks powerfully about the defining forces in Caribbean culture from colonialism to resistance and decolonization.

Poetry --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- West Indian poetry (English) --- History and criticism. --- West Indies --- Intellectual life. --- In literature. --- English poetry --- West Indian literature (English) --- West Indian authors --- Antilles --- Caribbean Islands --- Islands of the Caribbean --- Islands of the Atlantic --- POESIE ANTILLAISE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- REGION CARAÏBE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- DANS LA LITTERATURE --- VIE INTELLECTUELLE

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This volume illuminates the heightened critical assessment of Anglophone Caribbean poetry in the late 20th century. Williams makes a substantial contribution to a canon of literary criticism through her critical examination of selected poetry of Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Claire Harris, Olive Senior, and David Dabydeen. In her analysis she highlights the power of language as it classifies, divides, informs, and synthesizes the lives of Caribbean peoples throughout the Caribbean basin region. While placing emphasis on the poets' concerns with exile, displacement, and colonial cultural and political domination, it places primary emphasis on their movement beyond poetic forms of mere protest. Using the protest form, each poet appropriates a larger vision which encompasses prophecy for present and future gains based upon a meaningful connection to their African and Indian (cultural) primacy.

Caribbean poetry (English) --- West Indians --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Poésie antillaise de langue anglaise --- Brathwaite, Edward Kamau (1930-....) --- Harris, Claire (1939-....) --- Dabydeen, David (1955-....) --- Senior, Olive (1941-....) --- Identité (psychologie) --- Région caraïbe --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- Histoire et critique --- Critique et interprétation --- Dans la littérature --- Brathwaite, Kamau, --- Harris, Claire, --- Dabydeen, David --- Senior, Olive --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Caribbean Area --- In literature. --- Poésie antillaise de langue anglaise --- Identité (psychologie) --- Région caraïbe --- Critique et interprétation --- Dans la littérature