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67:"marked the emergence of Trinidadian short story and the beginning of national literature in Trinidad", one of its achievements being "to encourage West Indian writers to examine their own societies, and to discard Eurocentric preconceptions and literary conventions." Discussing the contribution to 79:(1988): "In choosing the subjects for their short fiction, the writers put into practice their theoretical demands that West Indian writing should utilize West Indian settings, speech, characters, and conflicts." 48:
group", regarded as having "shaped a nascent Trinidadian literary consciousness in the 1930s". Among other notable writers and artists associated with the influential group were
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monthly from March 1931 to November 1933, and briefly revived in 1939. The main names associated with the magazine were
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is among the local publications regarded as pivotal to the emergence of Caribbean literature in English, alongside
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Dalleo, Raphael (2011). "The Idea of the Literary in the Little Magazines of the 1940s". In Bucknor, Michael A.;
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in London, which was the first Caribbean publishing house in England, founded in 1966 by
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Published as a chapter in: Richard J. F. Day, Greig De Peuter, Mark Coté (eds),
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The Trinidad Awakening: West Indian Literature of the Nineteen-Thirties
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The Trinidad Awakening: West Indian Literature of the Nineteen-Thirties
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Utopian Pedagogy: Radical Experiments Against Neoliberal Globalization
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Urbane Revolutionary: C.L.R. James and the Struggle for a New Society
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Between the Bocas: A Literary Geography of Western Trinidad
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The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature
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Preceded by the short-lived pioneering literary magazine
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From Trinidad: An Anthology of Early West Indian Writing
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Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature
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Index

little magazine
Trinidad
Albert M. Gomes
C. L. R. James
Alfred H. Mendes
Ralph de Boissière
Hugh Stollmeyer
BIM
Kyk-Over-Al
New Beacon Books
John La Rose
Hodder & Stoughton
"The Realpolitik of Yard Fiction: Trinidad's Beacon Group"
Palgrave Macmillan
BIM
Kyk-Over-Al


Caribbean people and their language
"Books received"
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
doi
10.1177/0021989404047054
S2CID
220816944
The University Press of Mississippi
Between the Bocas: A Literary Geography of Western Trinidad
ISBN
9781781382882
"Anti-Racist Cultural Politics in Post-Imperial Britain: The New Beacon Circle"

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