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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

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English literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Achebe, Chinua --- Atwood, Margaret --- Gordimer, Nadine --- Head, Bessie --- Mansfield, Katherine --- Rushdie, Salman --- Aidoo (ama ata), 1942 --- -Armah (ayi kwei), 1939 --- -Carey (peter), 1943 --- -Frame (janet), 1924-2004 --- Gallant (mavis), 1922 --- -Gunesekera (romesh) --- Jacobson (dan) --- King (thomas) --- Lawson (henry) --- Lovelace (earl), 1935 --- -Marshall (paule), 1929 --- -Mittelholzer (edgar) --- Munro (alice) --- Ndebele (njabulo) --- Osundare (niyi), 1947 --- -Rhys (jean), 1894-1979 --- Saro-wiwa (ken), 1941-1995 --- Selvon (samuel), 1923-1994 --- Senior (olive) --- Urquhart (jane), 1949 --- -Wilding (michael)