Between the Bocas: A Literary Geography of Western Trinidad (American Tropics Towards a Literary Geography LUP)
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (673 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1781382883 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorJak Peake is a lecturer in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex.
From its colonial roots into the postcolonial era, western Trinidad therefore has played an especial part in the shaping of the island's literature. L. The legacy of the oil industry and the development of the suburban commuter belt of East-West Corridor, therefore, form considerable discursive nodes, alongside other key Trinidadian sites, such as Woodford Square, colonial houses and the urban yards of Port of Spain. Naipaul and Samuel Selvon, alongside writing by Michel Maxwell Philip, Marcella Fanny Wilkins, E. Joseph, Earl Lovelace, Ismith Khan, Monique Roffey, Arthur Calder-Marshall, Zenga Longmore and the largely neglected novelist, Yseult Bridges, who is almost entirely forgotten today. Viewed from one perspective, western Trinidad might be deemed as narrating the heart of the modern state's national literature. The calm waters around the Gulf of Paria on the western fringes of Trinidad indu
Jak Peake is a lecturer in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex.