Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature, edited by J. Dillon Brown &amp; Leah Reade Rosenberg

Sheri-Marie Harrison

doi:10.1163/22134360-09103026

Abstract

Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature, edited by J. Dillon Brown & Leah Reade Rosenberg

Highlights

It is well known that this is in large part because a cadre of writers, from diverse backgrounds and chosen genres, were among the metropolitan migrants
“this generation of male, exilic authors brought international acclaim and regional recognition to Anglophone Caribbean literature as a tradition, and the concepts and themes articulated in their work decisively shaped Caribbean literary criticism for over half a century” (p. 4)
While at no point do the editors or contributors discredit this auspicious legacy, the collection endeavors to demonstrate how “various institutional and critical biases have [] decisively shaped the characterization of this period, pruning out much of its diversity and interest in favor of a simplified account of regional-national literary triumph” (p. 4, my emphasis). In response to this “pruning,” recent scholars, many of whom are contributors to the collection, have broadened the limits of the postwar literary period, often referred to as the “boom,” to the corpus of Caribbean literature written before Windrush

Summary

Introduction

J. Dillon Brown & Leah Reade Rosenberg (eds.) Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature. Dillion Brown and Leah Reade Rosenberg have gathered together a timely, insightful, and important collection of essays that generatively recasts Anglophone Caribbean literature’s postwar genesis narrative.

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