Mervyn Morris on Orality and Literature in the Critical Landscape
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4842147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carol Bailey (0000-0002-2734-4060, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 91-102 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1534-6714 • E-ISSN: 0799-0537 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/07990537-11863400 |
| OpenAlex | W4411721161 |
| Language | EN |
This essay examines Mervyn Morris's field-defining and groundbreaking contribution to Caribbean literary and cultural criticism, with particular emphasis on the decolonizing orientations of his work. The author emphasizes Morris's devotion to amplifying the voices of writers and other creative artists who operated outside of mainstream literary and academic circles. The essay places Morris among the pioneering critical voices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, alongside other writers and critics such as Kamau Brathwaite, Edward Baugh, Sylvia Wynter, Édouard Glissant, and C. L. R. James
Art · Orality · Pedagogy · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Translation Studies and Practices
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |