Burns, Lorna (2008) Landscape and genre in the Caribbean canon: a poetics of place and paradise. Journal of West Indian Literature, 17 (1). pp. 20-37. ISSN 0258-8501
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Abstract
This paper traces the impulse to identify the Caribbean landscape with paradisiacal or Edenic imagery from the foundational texts of the Caribbean canon, such as James Grainger's The Sugar Cane (1764) and works by the pre-1930s poets J. E. Clare McFarlane, Tom Redcam, H. S. Bunbury, which clearly proclaim their affinity to the European perspective that sought to erase the hardships of plantation life by evoking the lazy languor of life in the tropics, through to the forceful appraisal of the idealising gaze of the coloniser/tourist in the poems of Una Marson and Aimé Césaire.
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| Additional Information: | This paper traces the impulse to identify the Caribbean landscape with paradisiacal or Edenic imagery from the foundational texts of the Caribbean canon, such as James Grainger's The Sugar Cane (1764) and works by the pre-1930s poets J. E. Clare McFarlane, Tom Redcam, H. S. Bunbury, which clearly proclaim their affinity to the European perspective that sought to erase the hardships of plantation life by evoking the lazy languor of life in the tropics, through to the forceful appraisal of the idealising gaze of the coloniser/tourist in the poems of Una Marson and Aimé Césaire. |
| Keywords: | Caribbean poetry, James Grainger, Una Marson, Aime Cesaire, environment and literature |
| Subjects: | Q Linguistics, Classics and related subjects > Q320 English Literature |
| Divisions: | College of Arts > Faculty of Media, Humanities & Performance > Lincoln School of Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Users 3003 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Apr 2012 18:03 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Apr 2012 18:03 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/5009 |
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