My Strangled City Rohlehr GordonPaperback
Gordon Rohlehr's critical work is outstanding in the balance it achieves between its particularity and its breadth--from the detailed unpacking of a poem's inner workings, to locating Caribbean…
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Gordon Rohlehr's critical work is outstanding in the balance it achieves between its particularity and its breadth--from the detailed unpacking of a poem's inner workings, to locating Caribbean writing in the sweep of political and cultural history--and the equal respect he pays to literary and to popular cultural forms. Indeed, along with Kamau Brathwaite, Sylvia Wynter and Kenneth Ramchand, no critic has done more to establish the subject of Caribbean writing and its distinctive aesthetics.These essays, written between 1969 to 1986, first published in radical campaigning newspapers such as Tapia and Moko, and first collected in 1992, were the work of a young academic who was both changing the university curriculum, and deeply engaged with the less privileged world outside the campus. Rohlehr catches Caribbean writing at the point when it leaves behind its nationalist hopes and begins