20th Century & Contemporary
“A Way to Cross Over”: Caribbean Literary Criticism
By , University of Michigan (November 2004)
Sections: 20th Century & Contemporary
Subject: Literature.
Periods: 1000 - 1999, 1900-1999.
Key Topics: postcolonialism, identity, literary criticism , Black literature, race, language.
Abstract
This article briefly introduces the major themes of contemporary Caribbean literary criticism as well as the key theorists. The pertinent themes discussed are creole identity, new cosmopolitan and other alternative universalisms, migratory and diasporic identity, and the politics of language.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00108.x
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