The Penguin book of Caribbean verse in English

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The Penguin book of Caribbean verse in English

selected and edited by Paula Burnett

(The Penguin poets)

Penguin Books, 1986

  • : pbk

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Caribbean verse in English

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Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Over the last few decades, Caribbean writers and performance artists have made a poetry revolution. Performance poets, dub and newspaper poets, singer-songwriters have created a genuinely popular art form, a poetry head by audiences all over the world. This lively anthology traces Caribbean verse from its roots to the present.

目次

  • Introduction: the language continuum
  • the oral tradition
  • before emancipation
  • from emancipation to black liberation
  • the literary tradition
  • the 18th and 19th centuries
  • the 20th century. Note on the text. Part 1 The oral tradition: anonymous - work-songs, dancing songs, Guinea corn, songs, my deery honey, freedom a come oh!, song of the king of the Eboes, Negro song at Cornwall, a Negro song, a popular Negro song, Quaco Sam, Sangaree kill de captain, war down a Monkland, two man a road, Mas' Charley, I have a news, there's a black boy in a ring, you ask me
  • Oku Onuora - last night, pressure drop, reflection in red
  • Brian Meeks - Las' rights, the coup-clock clicks
  • Michael Smith - black bud, I an I alone or Goliath
  • Valerie Bloom - trench town shock (A Soh Dem Sey), wat a rain. Part 2 The literary tradition: anonymous - from "A Pindarique Ode on the Arrival of His Excellency Sir Nicholas Lawes" etc.
  • Francis Williams - from an ode to George Haldane etc.
  • Nathaniel Weekes - from Barbados, I and II
  • James Grainger - from "The Sugar-Cane", books II and IV
  • John Singleton - from "A General Description of the West Indian Islands", book II, book III
  • anonymous - from a poetical epistle etc., from "Jamaica, a Poem in Three Parts" etc.
  • J.B. Moreton - ballad
  • James Montgomery - from "The West Indies"
  • M.J. Chapman - from "Barbadoes", African dirge
  • William Hosack - from "The Isle of Streams," stanzas X - XIV, stanzas XLV - LI
  • Robert Dunbar - from "The Cruise", from "The Caraguin"
  • Henry Dalton - the emigrant ship
  • Horatio Nelson Huggins - from "Hiroona" - the introduction, canto XII, ????? 23-6
  • Egbert Martin - trade, national anthem
  • Thomas MacDermot - from "San Gloria" (from Columbus's soliloquy), Cuba, a market basket in the car
  • Donald McDonald - a song of those who died, breakfast in bed (influenza in war-time), a citizen of - the world
  • Alfred Cruickshank - God or mammon, let us be frank, the convict song
  • W. Adolphe Roberts - on a monument to Marti, peacocks, the maroon girl, a valediction
  • Claude McKay - Fetchin water, subway wind, the white house, if we must die, baptism
  • Jean Rhys - our gardener, Obeah night, Martin Carter - university of hunger, from "I Come from the Nigger Yard", till I collect, there is no riot, for a man who walked sideways, the great dark, as new and as old, bent, our number
  • Evan Jones - genesis, walking with R.B., November, 1956, the song of the banana man, the lament of the banana man
  • Shake Keane - shaker funeral, coming back, from "Volcano Suite: Soufriere (79) I"
  • Daniel Williams - we are the cenotaphs
  • Andrew Salkey - remember Haiti, Cuba, Vietnam, Soufriere, clearsightedness, postcard from Mexico, 16.X.1973, a song for England, dry river bed
  • Henry Beissel - pans at carnival
  • Derek Walcott - a far cry from Africa, from "Another Life", chapter 20, forest of Europe, the spoiler's return
  • Edward Kamau Brathwaite - horse weebles, starvation and blues, schooner, harbour. (Part contents)

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  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA21788366
  • ISBN
    • 0140585117
  • LCCN
    86197336
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
  • ページ数/冊数
    lxvi, 447 p.
  • 大きさ
    20 cm
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