Browsing by Author "Joseph, Anthony"
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brathwaitian engines of expression: Anthony Joseph on the Influence of Kamau Brathwaite
Joseph, Anthony (Article)Anthony Joseph is a radical wordsmith. His work makes language elastic, stretching it to capture the sounds and rhythms of Trinidad, the Caribbean region, and the Caribbean diaspora. He works in several forms—poetry, prose, ... -
The Frequency of Magic
Joseph, Anthony (Book)Multi-levelled and diverse in scene, The Frequency of Magic traverses an array of lives connected to the village of Million Hills. There’s the gritty realism of hill-side life, the speculative imagination of Luke’s travels ... -
Happy in the Mother Country: Liminality in Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners
Joseph, Anthony (Article)Liminality theory remains underused in discussions of post World War II Caribbean writing in the UK. This essay re-considers Samuel Selvon’s seminal 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners through the lens of liminality. In this ... -
Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon
Joseph, Anthony (Book)Combining factual biography with the imaginative structure of the novel, Anthony Joseph gets to the heart of the man behind the music and the myth, to present a holistic portrait of the calypso icon Lord Kitchener. Born ...