Caribbean Literature

by Louis James

Book Overview

Caribbean Literature in English places its subject in its precise regional context. The Caribbean', generally considered as one area, is highly discrete in its topography, race and languages, including mainland Guyana, the Atlantic island of Barbados, the Lesser Antilles, Trinidad, and Jamaica, whose size and history gave it an early sense of separate nationhood. Beginning with Raleigh's Discoverie of...Guiana (1596), this innovative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00EZ1PIDY
• ISBN13: 9780582493544
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"