Between the Bocas : a Literary Geography of Western Trinidad.
This study places works by well-known authors such as V.S. Naipaul and Samuel Selvon, alongside writing by Michel Maxwell Philip, Marcella Fanny Wilkins, E.L. Joseph, Earl Lovelace, Ismith Khan, Monique Roffey, Arthur Calder-Marshall, Zenga Longmore and the largely neglected novelist, Yseult Bridges...
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| Language: | English |
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Liverpool University Press,
2017
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| Series: | American Tropics Towards a Literary Geography LUP.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A Geographic Reading of Trinidad's West; Tracing a Caribbean Literary Past and the Role of the Local; Decoupling the Literary Map from the Modern State ; Beyond Sugar: Remapping Trinidad's Literary History ; Traversing Trinidad's Wild West (1783-1907); Charting the Terrain: Three Maps ; Mapping the Conquest and the Myth of Terra Cognita; Uncultivated Lands and Wild Frontiers; Conquistadors of Sense and Sensibilities; The Wandering, Innocent Eye/I in the Tropical Picturesque ; Pirates, Revolution and Creole Consciousness.
- Peeping Through the Partition (1927-1936)Modernist Visions, Porous Barrack-Yard Boundaries; Privacy, Private Property and Rent; The Gynocentric Yard; Dangerous Transgressions; Resisting Patriarchy and Colonialism ; Dark Thresholds in the Colonial House (1934); Setting Boundaries, Crossing Borders ; Policing the Perimeter ; Playing House in the Community; Challenge from the South (1935-1945); Oil, Possession, Labour and the Yankee Dollar; Oil; Possession; Labour; The Yankee Dollar ; The Sub-Urban Expansion (1940s-1950s); Views of the Port, City and Country.
- Waterside Relations: The Port, Saga and Steel BandMyths of a City and Country; From the Grass Roots to Woodford Square (1962-2010); Community, Nationhood and the Politics of Location; From the University of Woodford Square to the People's Parliament; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
