Caribbean Literature in English (Longman Literature In English Series)

Caribbean Literature in English places its subject in its precise regional context. The `Caribbean', generally considered as one area, is highly discrete in its topography, race and languages, including mainland Guyana, the Atlantic island of Barbados, the Lesser Antilles, Trinidad, and Jamaica, whose size and history gave it an early sense of separate nationhood. Beginning with Raleigh's Discoverie of...Guiana (1596), this innovative study traces the sometimes surprising evolution of cultures which shared a common experience of slavery, but were intimately related to individual local areas. The approach is interdisciplinary, examining the heritage of the plantation era, and the issues of language and racial identity it created. From this base, Louis James reassesses the phenomenal expansion of writing in the contemporary period. He traces the influence of pan-Caribbean movements and the creation of an expatriate Caribbean identity in Britain and America: `Brit'n' is considered as a West Indian island, created by `colonization in reverse'. Further sections treat the development of a Caribbean aesthetic, and the repossession of cultural roots from Africa and Asia. Balancing an awareness of the regional identity of Caribbean literature with an exploration of its place in world and postcolonial literatures, this study offers a panoramic view that has become one of the most vital of the `new literatures in English'. This accessible overview of Caribbean writing will appeal to the general reader and student alike, and particularly to all who are interested in or studying Caribbean literatures and culture, postcolonial studies, Commonwealth 'new literatures' and contemporary literature and drama.

Literature & Fiction

James, Louis

United States

Routledge

This study traces the literary and cultural history of Caribbean writing from Walter Raleigh to the present. It identifies the individuality of the Caribbean contribution within the broader picture of postcolonial literature and includes a literary map, chronology, and essays on keynote topics.

History & Criticism

Longman

Jean Rhys (Critical Studies of Caribbean Writers)

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel. 
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<li>Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts.</li> <li>Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing.</li> <li>Features short biographies of over forty Victorian authors, including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Robert Louis Stevenson.</li> <li>Offers close readings of over 30 key texts, among them Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), as well as key presences, such as John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Pt 1, 1676, Pt 2, 1684).</li> <li>Also covers topics such as colonialism, scientific speculation, the psychic and the supernatural, and working class reading.</li> </ul>

The Victorian Novel (Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature)

British & Irish

Wiley/Blackwell

The Victorian Novel

Passport's Illustrated Guide to Budapest (Passport's Illustrated Guides)

Travel

Europe

NTC Pub. Group

Passport's Illustrated Guide to Prague

Thomas Cook Travellers: Prague (AA/Thomas Cook Travellers)

Thomas Cook Publishing

A pocket-sized city guide with a large-scale street map. "AA CityPacks" are specially designed for the short break city visitor. Organise your time with recommended day itineraries, walks and excursions. The Top 25 sights, arranged from west to east across the city, are highlighted and give you all the accompanying detail you need such as prices and opening times. The best features of the city are all described - galleries, museums, parks and much more. Information is presented in easy-reference lists - restaurants, pubs, bars, cafes, different types of shop, all kinds of nightlife - concerts, opera, cinemas, theatres, and places to stay to suit all budgets. Every guide comes with a separate street map and a protective plastic wallet.

AA CityPack Vienna (AA CityPack Guides)

AA Publishing

Offering guidance through the city streets of Vienna, this reference includes the author's selection of the top 25 sights in the city; a section on resturants for different price levels and types of cuisine; and suggestions for shopping, entertainment and accommodation.

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