The Caribbean Novel Since 1945 Cultural Practice, Form, and the Nation-State

""The Caribbean Novel since 1945" is a major contribution to commentary on Caribbean literary practices since the end of World War II. Spanning a period that covers the anti-colonial struggles in the Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean, decolonization and the reconfigurations of the new nation-states and avoiding an approach that simply sees literature as a tool for revisionist historiography, Niblett places his main emphasis on the relationship between national transformations and literary form. He demonstrates how new modalities of thought have emerged from the social reorganizations that have taken place in the Caribbean and offers analyses of the work of writers such as Edouard Glissant, Earl Lovelace, Patrick Chamoiseau, Wilson Harris and Erna Brodber that breaks new ground. This is an important book for students and readers interested in ways in which Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean writing has evolved across the decades and absolutely essential anyone considering the commonalities and differences to be found in the writing of the two linguistic groupings." --John Thieme, professor of literature, drama, and creative writing, University of East Anglia