Carribean Postcolonial Literature

Question 1

Merle Hodge

Answer 1

West Indian literature:

• torn between two worlds
• focus on women
• differences in language and land (apple is seen as exotic)
• shows the matter of interpretation and perspective

Question 2

Naipul

Answer 2

Carribean author

• feels alienated with E. and T.
• common theme is issues of freedom for individuals in decolonized world
• alienation, rootlessness, mistrust

Question 3

Louise Bennett

Answer 3

Jamaican poet and folklorist writer, performed in creole

established validity of using local languages for literary expression

driving force to reintroduce to oral traditions

important role in establishing nat. id.

created various char. as repre. of national identity

Question 4

Colonisation in Reverse

Louise Bennett

Answer 4

poem
J. emigrating to B. in search of better life
J. had differing oppurtunities
refers to WW2 and toll it had on B.
refers to B. as mother den/ not A.
J. diaspora going to B. and working there and bring their culture just as B. did in past

Question 5

Jon Agard

-Listen Mr. Oxford Dun-

Answer 5

uses subversive and comical style
writes about issues of language, ethnicity and immigration

composed of stanzas with irregualr style, rhyme and length
– shows frustration with superioristy of Oxford dun

hes a linguistic mugger

features of creole included

Question 6

Derek Walcott

-The schooner flight-

Answer 6

protagonist describes himself in a passage:

• describes mixture of cultures
• collision of E. and A. in Carribean
• because of mixed descent he does not fit in

Question 7

Merle Hodge

Crick Crack Monkey

Answer 7

deals with a little girl growing up in cultural ambivalence

deals with abgrogation of language
- alienation and isolation-

explores carribean cultural identity
- torn between worlds-