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Chapter 9 - Here Are the Others: Caribbean Creative Nonfiction

from Part I - Literary and Generic Transitions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2020

By
Kei Miller
Edited by
Ronald Cummings  and
Alison Donnell
Ronald Cummings
Affiliation:
Brock University, Ontario
Alison Donnell
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
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Creative non-fiction, including modes of essay, letter and journal writing, has been an important genre in Caribbean writing. Caribbean literature has had a long history of creative/critical intersections, and many of the most significant creative figures have also been influential in setting critical agendas through these literary forms (Brathwaite, Brodber, Lamming, Walcott, Wynter). During the contemporary period, creative non-fiction has also functioned as a key site for writers to explore ideas about the changing Caribbean, in its political, social, artistic, and spiritual dimensions, and to constantly recontextualize the Caribbean’s place in the world. This essay addresses how selected Caribbean writers have participated in the genre of nonfiction from the 1970s to the present. The discussion explores the issues and problems of categories and classifications and offers close readings of non-fictional works by V. S. Naipaul, Jamaica Kincaid and Rachel Manley.

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Caribbeannonfictionlife-writingNaipaulKincaidManley
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Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020 , pp. 148 - 163
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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