Montague Kobbe: Literary Caribbeanness: Fact or Fiction?

Recently, I was reading Jeremy Taylor’s review of Conversations with Caryl Phillips (ed. by Renée Shatteman), a compendium of nineteen interviews with the Kittitian-born, British writer, where, according to Taylor, we learn all kinds of details about the author. Among them, the revelation that Phillips “doesn’t see himself as part of a Caribbean literary tradition; in fact, he hardly thinks there is one.” Phillips is certainly not the first, nor the only writer with Caribbean roots to question the notion of a Caribbean literary tradition:

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