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By A. James Arnold
This heritage of literature within the Carribean makes a speciality of English- and Dutch-speaking areas. issues lined contain: the anglophone Caribbean; literary improvement - a contrastive heritage; style - a contrastive heritage; The Netherlands, Antilles, Aruba, and Suriname; a mosaic environment - a contrastive historical past of style; literary feedback; drama; fiction; and poetry.
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Lang, George. 1997. Islands, Enclaves, Continua: Notes Toward a Comparative History of Caribbean Creole Literatures. A History of Literature in the Caribbean. Vol. 3: Cross-Cultural Studies. Ed. by A. James Arnold, 29–56. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Lewis, Gordon K. 1968. The Growth of the Modern West Indies. New York; London: Monthly Review Press. Lewis, Lancelot S. 1980. The West Indian in Panama: Black Labor in Panama, 1850–1914. Washington, D. : University Press of America. Lewis, Sybil Farrell and Dale T.
Middle-class writers find themselves drawn to the vibrant life style and colorful speech of the underclass, at the same time that they feel moved to agitate against the poverty that is the indifferent catalyst of creativity and frustration, humanity and violence among the underprivileged. All the same, this literature strongly conveys the authors’ wonderment at, or distance from, their subjects’ lives. Such literature is structured around the following: an observer, or participant-observer, of the action who is middle or upper class or, if a peasant or proletarian, is more educated than the rest; an English-speaking narrative voice, a commentator who upholds or takes account of a middle-class European world view.
As Sterling’s report indicates, social control, though allegedly focussed on adapting “the Christian ethic to secular goals” and on “universal” rather than on “parochial” values, was 42 Helen Tiffin deeply imbricated with the belief in the superiority of British civilization, of English culture, and in “an acceptance of English methods of administration and subservience to English imperialism” (Turner [1977], 63–64). The concern for inculcating in West Indians the ideals of “the peace and prosperity of the Empire” and due regard to “profitability to others” were necessary corollaries to these beliefs.