Title: West Indian History and Society in the Art of Paule Marshall's Novel
Abstract:Anglophobe West Indian literature-certainly its novels-has been mainly concerned with two main themes: the relationship of the author's persona or personae to his society, found in general to be limit...Anglophobe West Indian literature-certainly its novels-has been mainly concerned with two main themes: the relationship of the author's persona or personae to his society, found in general to be limiting and frustrating; and stemming from this, a presentation of that society and an illustration of its lack of identity. West Indian novelists have so far, on the whole, attempted to see their society neither in the larger context of Third World underdevelopment, nor, with the exception of Vic Reid, in relation to communal history. Perhaps this has been artistically unnecessary. West Indian novels have been so richly home centered, that they have provided their own universe, with its own universal application. West Indian novelists, faced with the exciting if Sisyphean task of describing their own society in their own terms, for the first time, have had to provide for themselves a priority list in which, quite naturAlly, a relating of their own encounter with their environment, society and sensibility, has had to take pride of place. In addition, since most West Indian novelists have become exiles in several centres of the metropolitan West, their concern with a continuing and widening exploration of their societies has been limited byRead More
Publication Year: 1970
Publication Date: 1970-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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