Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature

Alison Donnell is a Reader in English and Postcolonial Literatures at Nottingham Trent University. She is co-editor of The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (1996) and has published widely in the field of Caribbean and postcolonial writings. She is also Joint Editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

• Acknowledgements  Introduction  Difficult subjects: Caribbean writing before the boom  Global villages and watery graves: recrossing the Black Atlantic  Double Agents: gender, ethnicity and the absent woman  Sexing the Subject: writing and the politics of sexual identity  Works Cited

'This book will extend the archive of Caribbean texts in challenging and exciting ways, and is likely to initiate more generous and promiscuous readings of Caribbean writings, as well as making a valuable contribution to debates about the local and the global which are so central to postcolonial studies.' - Denise deCaires Narain, University of Sussex'it amounts to nothing less than a radical challenge to the canon of Caribbean literature and its repressions. It is the only comprehensive sketch of all the major blindspots of Caribbean literary history and criticism, identifying and correcting not only the exclusions of nationalist canons, but also of post-nationalist and feminist ones. Donnell thus puts into critical circulation a rich, unruly, and diverse body of literature.' - Shalini Puri, University of Pitsburgh