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Beyond Boundaries
Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe
其他書名
The Intellectual Tradition of Trinidad and Tobago in the Nineteenth Century
出版Calaloux Publications, 2003
主題History / Caribbean & West Indies / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American
ISBN15584931829781558493186
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=d89yAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The first survey of writings on nineteenth-century Trinidad and Tobago; When V. S. Naipaul received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001, the award marked the culmination of a literary tradition that was almost two hundred years in the making. The island nation of Trinidad and Tobago has produced such important writers and thinkers as C. L. R. James, J. J. Thomas, Eric Williams, Oliver Cromwell Cox, Sylvester Williams, George Padmore, Earl Lovelace, Arnold Rampersad, and Merle Hodge. Yet this literary legacy is not well known, particularly with respect to works dating from the nineteenth century. Beyond Boundaries traces the development of the country's literary and intellectual history from the Narrative of Louisa Calderon (1803) to Stephen Cobham's Rupert Gray: A Tale of Black and White (1907). Selwyn R. Cudjoe examines a wide range of narratives by and about the people of Trinidad and Tobago, from treatises in the natural sciences, to journals and memoirs, histories, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, poems, stories, novels, theatrical works, and writings in the popular press. Along the way, he discusses such seminal works as Jean Baptiste Philippe's Free Mulatto (1824)