Lx: the Love Axe/L: Developing a Caribbean Aesthetic

At once a manifesto for a revolutionary Caribbean aesthetics and a scholarly documentation of a vital period in the region�� past, this two-volume reference is a unique and indispensable work of literary and cultural history. This study takes on a wide range of artistic, popular, and intellectual movements that were part of the profound revolution in West Indian postcolonial consciousness. In addition to major discussions of the work of Paule Marshall, Roger Mais, Derek Walcott, George Lamming, and Jean Rhys, this survey contains extensive coverage of the flowering of innovative writing published during the later 1960s to 1970s.