Theyearsbetweenthe1920sand1970sarekeyforthedevelopmentofCaribbeanliterature,producingthefoundingcanonicalliterarytextsoftheAnglophoneCaribbean.Thisvolumefeaturesessaysbymajorscholarsaswellasemergingvoicesrevisitingimportantmomentsfromthateratoopenupnewperspectives.CaribbeancontributionstotheHarlemRenaissance,totheWindrushgenerationpublishinginEnglandafterWorldWarII,andtotheregionalreverberationsoftheCubanRevolutionallfeatureprominentlyinthisstory.Atthesametime,weuncoverlesserknownstoriesofwriterspublishinginregionalnewspapersandjournals,ofpioneeringwomenwriters,andofexchangeswithCanadaandtheAfricancontinent.FrommajorwriterslikeDerekWalcott,V.S.Naipaul,GeorgeLamming,andJeanRhystorecentlyrecuperatedfigureslikeEricWalrond,UnaMarson,SylviaWynter,andIsmithKhan,thisvolumesetsacourseforthefuturestudyofCaribbeanliterature.
