Black Yeats: Eric Roach and the Politics of Caribbean Poetry

by Laurence A. Breiner

Overview

With an eye to his particular importance as a documentarian of Anglophone Caribbean history and culture, this critical analysis of Eric Roach's published poetry interprets his work in the context of a broader study of the intersections of his poetic life, the political events he experienced, and the seminal debates about art and culture—both "high" and "low"—in which he took part.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845230470
Publisher:	Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Publication date:	05/01/2008
Series:	Peepal Tree Caribbean Poetry Series
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.93(d)

About the Author

Laurence A. Breiner is the author of An Introduction to West Indian Poetry and a member of the African-American studies faculty at Boston University, where he teaches Caribbean, postcolonial, and 17th-century literatures. He lives in Boston.

Table of Contents

Preface     7
Home Work: The First Decade     14
1938 - The Teachers' Herald     23
1939 - The Trinidad Guardian     29
The War Years     34
Post-war Poems     40
Going Public I: The BBC "Caribbean Voices" Programme     52
Going Public II: Bim     73
The Homestead: Intimate Poems     105
Figures in the Caribbean Landscape     133
Poems of Men     136
Poems of Women     159
Two Aged Figures     175
Poetry and Politics I: Federation     181
"my darling village"     184
Staying at Home     196
Federation Poems     206
Watershed     221
Poetry and Politics II: After Independence     229
The Politics of Poetry: Roach's Aesthetics and the Savacou Debate     258
End Notes     280
Selected Bibliography     298
Index     303