A Poetics of Performance: The Oral-Scribal Aesthetic in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction

by Carol Bailey

A Poetics of Performance examines the impact of orature performance on Caribbean prose fiction. Arguing that orature performance is the structuring device for many contemporary novels and short stories, this work extends the critical consensus that Caribbean oral modes infuse all genres of literature from the region. This book also demonstrates how the formal and thematic synergies between Caribbean orature and literature constitute an inter-performative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 976640495X
• ISBN13: 9789766404956
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"