{"product_id":"a-poetics-of-performance-the-oral-scribal-aesthetic-in-anglophone-caribbean-fiction-paperback","title":"A Poetics of Performance: The Oral-Scribal Aesthetic in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarol Bailey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Poetics of Performance\u003c\/i\u003e examines the impact of orature performance on Caribbean prose fiction. Arguing that orature performance is the structuring device for many contemporary novels and short stories, this work extends the critical consensus that Caribbean oral modes infuse all genres of literature from the region. This book also demonstrates how the formal and thematic synergies between Caribbean orature and literature constitute an inter-performative relationship between the region's literary and performance cultures. Beginning with a retrospective analysis of \u003ci\u003eNew Day\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Londoners\u003c\/i\u003e, two harbingers of an aesthetic of orality, \u003ci\u003eA Poetics of Performance\u003c\/i\u003e offers fresh readings of fictions by post-1950s writers Earl Lovelace, Merle Collins, Marie-Elena John, Marlon James and Colin Channer alongside calypso, reggae and different modes of Caribbean oral storytelling. Bailey elucidates what may be termed the most consequential aspect of Caribbean literary self―fashioning: an \"inward turn\" to the expressive resources and discursive tools of folk and popular culture. This recuperation, she argues, has in turn forged a literary tradition grounded not only in the folk and urban working-class performance cultures but, inevitably, in a woman-centred poetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9.06 x 6.09 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51793396236576,"sku":"9789766404956","price":59.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/44669265471c9833cc818cebfae65ae7.webp?v=1780720337","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-poetics-of-performance-the-oral-scribal-aesthetic-in-anglophone-caribbean-fiction-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}