Memory and Landscapes: The Works of Four Early Twentieth-Century BarbadianWriters - Softcover

Zoanne Evans (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9768286598 ISBN 13: 9789768286598

Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers, 2022

Synopsis

Memory and Landscapes examines the impact of the literary and journalistic contributions of W. S. Arthur, Hilton Vaughan, Karl Sealy, and A. N. Forde, key contributors to the shaping of Barbadian and West Indian writing. Where the early works of Jamaican writers such as Thomas McDermott and H. G. deLisser and Trinidadians Alfred Mendes and Albert Gomes have been the subject of exploration and exposition, there has been little to no critical study on their Barbadian counterparts.

 

In addressing this gap, Zoanne Evans analyses the contributions of Arthur, Vaughan, Sealy, and Forde in laying the foundation for what is now known as West Indian Literature. Their challenge of the colonial norms in a creolized society that held fast to racial and class divides and the negative stereotyping of the Black working class was a precursor to the creation and development of a national literature and cultural identity.

About this title

About the Author

Zoanne Evans holds a PhD in Literatures in English from The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, where she is an instructor in the Academic Literacies programme.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9768286598
• ISBN 13: 9789768286598
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232