Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature

Book Overview

This edited collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. Since the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, scholars have exalted an elite cohort of migr novelists based in postwar London, a group often referred to as "the Windrush writers" in tribute to the SS Empire Windrush, whose 1948 voyage from Jamaica inaugurated large-scale Caribbean migration to London. In critical accounts this group is typically reduced to the canonical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496813049
• ISBN13: 9781496813046
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"