The BBC and the Development of Anglophone Caribbean Literature, 1943-1958

This book is the first to analyse how BBC radio presented Anglophone Caribbean literature and in turn aided and influenced the shape of imaginative writing in the region. Glyne A. Griffith examines Caribbean Voices broadcasts to the region over a fifteen-year period and reveals that though the program's funding was colonial in orientation, the content and form were antithetical to the very colonial enterprise that had brought the program into existence. Part literary history and part literary biography, this study fills a gap in the narrative of the region's literary history.

Offers readers a view of major Anglophone Caribbean writers during their early years of creative formation Fills a critical gap in the narrative of Anglophone Caribbean literary history and literary development Appeals to a broad scholarly audience through its seamless intersection of literary history, literary and cultural analysis, and literary biography.

Auteur

Glyne A. Griffith is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University at Albany, SUNY, USA. He is a scholar and teacher of Anglophone Caribbean literature and literary criticism. He is the author of Deconstruction, Imperialism and the West Indian Novel ; co-editor, with Linden Lewis, of Color, Hair and Bone: Race in the Twenty-First Century ; and Associate Editor of the Journal of West Indian Literature (JWIL) .

Contenu

Introduction.- The Genesis of Caribbean Voices : People and Policies.- The Critics' Circle.- Caribbean Voices and Competing Visions of Post-Colonial Community.- A Sustaining Epistolarly Community.- The Naipaul / Mittelholzer Years: 1954-58.- Afterword.