New World Adams: Interviews with West Indian Writers (Paperback)

Daryl Cumber Dance

ISBN 10: 190071504X / ISBN 13: 9781900715041

Edité par Peepal Tree Press Ltd, Yorkshire, 2008

Paperback. In these interviews, held in the early 1980s, with twenty-two of the major writers of the English-speaking Caribbean, Daryl Dance brings together what is much more than just a valuable source book for readers of West Indian writing. The interviews are highly readable - by turns probing, combative and reflective and always absorbing. Daryl Dance brings to the interviews a rare breadth of knowledge and empathy with the work of the writers interviewed and the openly avowed insights of an African-American woman.The writers interviewed include Michael Anthony, Louise Bennett, Jan Carew, Martin Carter and Denis Williams, Austin Clarke, Wilson Harris, John Hearne, C.L.R. James, Ismith Khan, George Lamming, Earl Lovelace, Tony McNeill, Pam Mordecai and Velma Pollard, Mervyn Morris, Orlando Patterson, Vic Reid, Dennis Scott, Sam Selvon, Michael Thelwell, Derek Walcott and Sylvia Wynter. This second edition contains updated bibliographies for all the writers.Daryl Dance is Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. This is a collection of interviews, held in the early 1980s, with 22 of the major writers of the English-speaking Caribbean, including Michael Anthony, Louise Bennett, Jan Carew, Ismith Khan, Orlando Patterson, Sylvia Wynter and Pam Mordecai. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781900715041

Synopsis :

In this updated collection of interviews with 22 of the most important writers of the English-speaking Caribbean, matters of relevant biography, social and political context, the writer's attitudes toward language, and his or her agenda as a Caribbean person are explored. Providing more than just a valuable sourcebook for readers of West Indian writing, these interviews are probing, combative, reflective, and absorbing. The writers interviewed include Michael Anthony, Louise Bennett, Jan Carew, Martin Carter, Denis Williams, Austin Clarke, Neville Dawes, Wilson Harris, John Hearne, C. L. R. James, Ismith Khan, George Lamming, Earl Lovelace, Tony McNeil, Pam Mordecai, Velma Pollard, Mervyn Morris, Orlando Patterson, Vic Reid, Dennis Scott, Sam Selvon, Michael Thelwell, Derek Walcott, and Sylvia Wynter.

À propos de l'auteur: Daryl C. Dance is a professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. She is the recipient of Ford Foundation Fellowships and a Fulbright research grant. She is the author of Fifty Caribbean Writers, which was named as the outstanding reference book of 1986 by Library Journal; Folklore from Contemporary Jamaicans; Honey, Hush!; Long Gone; and Shuckin' and Jivin'.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : New World Adams: Interviews with West Indian...
Éditeur : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, Yorkshire
Date d'édition : 2008
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : new
Edition : 2ème Édition