Beyond Windrush Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature Pap

Beyond Windrush Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature Pap Description

This edited collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. Since the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, scholars have exalted an elite cohort of emigre novelists based in postwar London, a group often referred to as -the Windrush writers- in tribute to the SS Empire Windrush, whose 1948 voyage from Jamaica inaugurated large-scale Caribbean migration to London. In critical accounts this group is typically reduced to the canonical troika of V.