Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl
Trinidad,historically located at the crossroads of the Americas,has produced an incomparable national literature,fashioning genres that have informed the Caribbean region as a whole. One of the greatest contemporary Trinidadian writers is Earl Lovelace. His novelistic performative epics combine the rhythms of steelband and calypso with the narrative complexity of Faulkner.Lovelace was an early enthusiast for Black Power and remains an indefatigable critic of the inequalities bequeathed by the post-Ind