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Selected Writings of Alfred H. Mendes

Author : Alfred Hubert Mendes
Publisher : University of West Indies Press
ISBN 13 : 9789766403225
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Selected Writings of Alfred H. Mendes written by Alfred Hubert Mendes and published by University of West Indies Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Hubert Mendes (1897?1991) was a member of the influential Beacon group of artists, writers and intellectuals in Trinidad in the 1930s. In common with other Beacon writers, including C.L.R. James and Ralph de Boissière, he set out to create a Trinidad-centred literature, and his extensive output of poetry, short stories, novels and journalism bears witness to his dedication to this goal. Selected Writings is an anthology of poetry, short fiction and journalism from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s which places Mendes?s literary development in the context of his life. It is accompanied by an introduction, appendices containing early letters to Mendes from C.L.R. James, Claude McKay, and the Canadian writer Hulbert Footner, explanatory notes, and a brief glossary of Trinidadian words and phrases. The sheer vitality of Mendes?s writing and the huge scope of his interests will attract both scholars and general readers keen to understand what life really was like in the early decades of the twentieth century, especially now, as Trinidad celebrates fifty years of independent self-government. Whereas Mendes?s poems and short stories tellingly illustrate the stresses of social life under colonial rule, the journalism contains much thought-provoking discussion of the development of a national identity and political maturity through his intensive examination of Trinidad?s cultural life.

Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1920–1970: Volume 2

Author : Raphael Dalleo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108851436
Total Pages : 749 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1920–1970: Volume 2 written by Raphael Dalleo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years between the 1920s and 1970s are key for the development of Caribbean literature, producing the founding canonical literary texts of the Anglophone Caribbean. This volume features essays by major scholars as well as emerging voices revisiting important moments from that era to open up new perspectives. Caribbean contributions to the Harlem Renaissance, to the Windrush generation publishing in England after World War II, and to the regional reverberations of the Cuban Revolution all feature prominently in this story. At the same time, we uncover lesser known stories of writers publishing in regional newspapers and journals, of pioneering women writers, and of exchanges with Canada and the African continent. From major writers like Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, and Jean Rhys to recently recuperated figures like Eric Walrond, Una Marson, Sylvia Wynter, and Ismith Khan, this volume sets a course for the future study of Caribbean literature.

Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature

Author : Janelle Rodriques
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429998651
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature written by Janelle Rodriques and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores representations of Obeah – a name used in the English/Creole-speaking Caribbean to describe various African-derived, syncretic Caribbean religious practices – across a range of prose fictions published in the twentieth century by West Indian authors. In the Caribbean and its diasporas, Obeah often manifests in the casting of spells, the administration of baths and potions of various oils, herbs, roots and powders, and sometimes spirit possession, for the purposes of protection, revenge, health and well-being. In most Caribbean territories, the practice – and practices that may resemble it – remains illegal. Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature analyses fiction that employs Obeah as a marker of the Black ‘folk’ aesthetics that are now constitutive of West Indian literary and cultural production, either in resistance to colonial ideology or in service of the same. These texts foreground Obeah as a social and cultural logic both integral to and troublesome within the creation of such a thing as ‘West Indian’ literature and culture, at once a product of and a foil to Caribbean plantation societies. This book explores the presentation of Obeah as an ‘unruly’ narrative subject, one that not only subverts but signifies a lasting ‘Afro-folk’ sensibility within colonial and ‘postcolonial’ writing of the West Indies. Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature will be of interest to scholars and students of Caribbean Literature, Diaspora Studies, and African and Caribbean religious studies; it will also contribute to dialogues of spirituality in the wider Black Atlantic.

Jamaica Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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The Autobiography of Alfred H. Mendes 1897-1991

Author : Alfred Hubert Mendes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766401177
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Alfred H. Mendes 1897-1991 written by Alfred Hubert Mendes and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Portuguese Creole author Alfred H. Mendes was an important member of the Beacon Group of writers in Trinidad in the 1930s. His autobiography offers a private perspective of the man behind a popular West Indian personality, and includes annotations and an introduction by Michele Levy.

Sexuality, Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature

Author : Kate Houlden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317748662
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Sexuality, Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature written by Kate Houlden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on sex and sexuality in post-war novels from the Anglophone Caribbean. Countering the critical orthodoxy that literature from this period dealt with sex only tangentially, implicitly transmitting sexist or homophobic messages, the author instead highlights the range and diversity in its representations of sexual life. She draws on gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial theory and cultural history to provide new readings of seminal figures like Samuel Selvon and George Lamming whilst also calling attention to the work of innovative, lesser-studied authors such as Andrew Salkey, Oscar Dathorne and Rosa Guy. Offering a coherent and expansive overview of how post-war Caribbean novelists have treated the persistently controversial topic of sex, this book addresses one of the blind spots in Caribbean literary criticism. It mines a range of little-studied archival materials and texts to argue that fiction of the post-war era exhibits both continuities with the sexual emphases of earlier writing and connections to later trends. The author also presents nationalist ideology as central to the literature of this era. It is in the fictional rendering of sexuality that the contradictions of the nationalist project are most apparent; sex both exceeds and threatens the imagined unity on which the political vision depends.

Twentieth-century Caribbean and Black African Writers

Author : Bernth Lindfors
Publisher : Gale Research International, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
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Download or read book Twentieth-century Caribbean and Black African Writers written by Bernth Lindfors and published by Gale Research International, Limited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles more than thirty Caribbean and Black African writers of the twentieth century, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail.

Alfred H. Mendes

Author : Alfred Hubert Mendes
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Alfred H. Mendes written by Alfred Hubert Mendes and published by University of the West Indies Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alfred Hubert Mendes (1897-1991) was a member of the influential Beacon group of artists, writers and intellectuals in Trinidad in the 1930s. In common with other Beacon writers, including C.L.R. James and Ralph de Boissiaere, he set out to create a Trinidad-centred literature, and his extensive output of poetry, short stories, novels and journalism bears witness to his dedication to this goal."

Aldous Huxley

Author : Claire John Eschelbach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aldous Huxley written by Claire John Eschelbach and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English

Author : Jenny Stringer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191516473
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English written by Jenny Stringer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-26 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique new reference book to English-language writers and writing throughout the present century, in all major genres and from all around the world - from Joseph Conrad to Will Self, Virginia Woolf to David Mamet, Ezra Pound to Peter Carey, James Joyce to Amy Tan. The survivors of the Victorian age who feature in The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English - writers such as Thomas Hardy, Olive Schreiner, Rabindranath Tagore, Henry James - could hardly have imagined how richly diverse `Literature in English' would become by the end of the century. Fiction, plays, poetry, and a whole range of non-fictional writing are celebrated in this informative, readable, and catholic reference book, which includes entries on literary movements, periodicals, and over 400 individual works, as well as articles on some 2,400 authors. All the great literary figures are included, whether American or Australian, British, Irish, or Indian, African or Canadian or Caribbean - among them Samuel Beckett, Edith Wharton, Patrick White, T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, D. H. Lawrence, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, Wole Soyinka, Sylvia Plath - as well as a wealth of less obviously canonical writers, from Anaïs Nin to L. M. Montgomery, Bob Dylan to Terry Pratchett. The book comes right up to date with contemporary figures such as Toni Morrison, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Carol Shields, Tim Winton, Nadine Gordimer, Vikram Seth, Don Delillo, and many others. Title entries range from Aaron's Rod to The Zoo Story; topics from Angry Young Men, Bestsellers, and Concrete Poetry to Soap Opera, Vietnam Writing, and Westerns. A lively introduction by John Sutherland highlights the various and sometimes contradictory canons that have emerged over the century, and the increasingly international sources of writing in English which the Companion records. Catering for all literary tastes, this is the most comprehensive single-volume guide to modern (and postmodern) literature.

British Travel Writers, 1910-1939

Author : Barbara Brothers
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
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Download or read book British Travel Writers, 1910-1939 written by Barbara Brothers and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 1998 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 195 of a complete resource for both biographical and analytical coverage on nearly 7,000 literary figures, presented in a familiar format to librarians and other researchers. The series arranges authors in volumes by genre and time period. For fast reference, an author name index is included (cumulative in every volume). Approx.

The Jewish Year Book

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1510 pages
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The Environment and Literature of Moral Dilemmas

Author : David Aberbach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000400050
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Environment and Literature of Moral Dilemmas written by David Aberbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-18 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the literature of environmental moral dilemmas from the Hebrew Bible to modern times, this book argues the necessity of cross-disciplinary approaches to environmental studies, as a subject affecting everyone, in every aspect of life. Moral dilemmas are central in the literary genre of protest against the effects of industry, particularly in Romantic literature and ‘Condition of England’ novels. Writers from the time of the Industrial Revolution to the present—including William Blake, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Émile Zola, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, T.S. Eliot, John Steinbeck, George Orwell, and J.M. Coetzee—follow the Bible in seeing environmental problems in moral terms, as a consequence of human agency. The issues raised by these and other writers—including damage to the environment and its effects on health and quality of life, particularly on the poor; economic conflicts of interest; water and air pollution, deforestation, and the environmental effects of war—are fundamentally the same today, making their works a continual source of interest and insight. Sketching a brief literary history on the impact of human behavior on the environment, this volume will be of interest to readers researching environmental studies, literary studies, religious studies and international development, as well as a useful resource to scientists and readers of the Arts.

Authors and Artists for Young Adults

Author : Kevin Hile
Publisher : Gale Cengage
ISBN 13 : 9780810380257
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Authors and Artists for Young Adults written by Kevin Hile and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1993-07-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Authors & Artists for Young Adults teens have a source where they can discover fascinating and entertaining facts about the writers, artists, film directors, graphic novelists, and other creative personalities that most interest them. International in scope, each volume contains 20-25 entries offering personal behind-the-scenes information, portraits, movie stills, bibliographies, a cumulative index and more.For table of contents or other volume specific information see the entry for the volume.While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available due to rights restrictions.Call your Sales Rep for details.

Adolphus, a Tale

Author : Lise Winer
Publisher : Caribbean Heritage Series
ISBN 13 : 9789766401337
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Adolphus, a Tale written by Lise Winer and published by Caribbean Heritage Series. This book was released on 2001 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean Heritage Series is designed to publish historic re-publications of Trinidad Literary Roots and comprises four Trinidadian novels published between 1838 and 1907. This second volume in the series presents two novels, Adolphus, a Tale and The Slave Son. Adolphus was first published in 1853 and was probably written by a Trinidadian mulatto, thus making it the first Trinidadian, and possibly the first West Indian, novel written by a mulatto and the first novel written by someone born and reared in Trinidad. A dramatic nineteenth-century tale, originally published in the newspapers of the day, Adolphus, traces the adventures of a mulatto son of a black slave women raped by a white man. Raised by a kind Spanish-Trinidadian padre, Adolphus grows into a handsome, well-educated, noble character. Later falling in love with Antonia Romelia, he manages to rescue her from a villainous kidnaper and they flee to Venezuela where they are free to marry. The Slave Son was originally published in 1854 by Chapman and Hall, and according to the author's foreword, it was inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and was written to support the abolitionist movement in the Unit.

The Man who Ran Away and Other Stories of Trinidad in the 1920s and 1930s

Author : Alfred Hubert Mendes
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
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Download or read book The Man who Ran Away and Other Stories of Trinidad in the 1920s and 1930s written by Alfred Hubert Mendes and published by University of the West Indies Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred H. Mendes was a member of the Beacon group of writers in Trinidad in the 1930s and friend and colleague of C.L.R. James and Ralph de Boissiere. He was a prolific writer, with a distinctive and engaging voice, and he wrote a significant number of short stories, many of which have never been published and most of which were written between 1920 and 1940. "The Man Who Ran Away" is a collection of twelve stories with an introduction and short glossary of Trinidadian Creole words and phrases. The book is useful as a text for university literature courses, with an introduction designed for students unfamiliar with Mendes's work, but not so dauntingly academic as to discourage a general readership.