We must learn to sit down together and talk about a little culture : decolonising essays, 1967-1984

The beginnings of the anti-colonial struggle in Jamaica coincided with the childhood and early adolescence of Sylvia Wynter, providing the motivation for this, the first phase of her important body of work. The essays and articles collected here go beyond making an argument against colonialism, but...

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Yazar: Wynter, Sylvia, 1928-
Diğer Yazarlar: Eudell, Demetrius Lynn (Editör)
Materyal Türü: Livre papier
Dil:Anglais
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Leeds, England : Peepal tree C 2022.
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Autres localisations: Voir dans le Sudoc
İçindekiler:
  • Lady Nugent's journal: a review essay
  • An introductory essay to an adaptation of Federico García Lorca's The house of Bernarda Alba to an equivalent Jamaican creole setting, together with an abstract
  • "We must learn to sit down together and talk about a little culture": reflections on West Indian writing and criticism, parts 1 and 2
  • Moritat for a lost leader
  • Bernardo de Balbuena, epic poet and abbot of Jamaica, 1562-1627
  • Jonkunnu in Jamaica: folk-dance as a cultural process
  • Novel and history: plot and plantation
  • Jamaica's national heroes
  • One love, rhetoric and reality: aspects of Afro-Jamaicanism
  • Creole criticism: a critique
  • Afterword to Highlife for Caliban by Lemuel Johnson
  • Ethno- or sociopoetics?
  • The eye of the other: images of the black in Spanish literature
  • We know where we are from: the politics of Black culture from Myal to Marley
  • History, ideology and the reinvention of the past in Achebe's Things fall apart and Laye's The dark child
  • A utopia from the semi-periphery: Spain, modernisation, and enlightenment
  • In quest of Matthew Bondsman: some cultural notes of the Jamesian Journey
  • New Seville and the conversion experience of Bartolomé de las casas, parts 1 and 2
  • Against a one-dimensional degree in literature: towards relevance