The BBC and the Development of Anglophone Caribbean Literature, 1943-1958
This book is the first to analyse how BBC radio presented Anglophone Caribbean literature and in turn aided and influenced the shape of imaginative writing in the region. Glyne A. Griffith examines Caribbean Voices broadcasts to the region over a fifteen-
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THE BBC AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANGLOPHONE CARIBBEAN LITERATURE, 1943-1958
GLYNE A. GRIFFITH
New Caribbean Studies
Series Editors Kofi Campbell Laurier Brantford Brantford, Ontario, Canada Shalini Puri Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Aim of the series New Caribbean Studies series seeks to contribute to Caribbean selfunderstanding, to intervene in the terms of global engagement with the region, and to extend Caribbean Studies’ role in reinventing various disciplines and their methodologies well beyond the Caribbean. The series especially solicits humanities-informed and interdisciplinary scholarship from across the region’s language traditions.
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Glyne A. Griffith
The BBC and the Development of Anglophone Caribbean Literature, 1943–1958
Glyne A. Griffith University at Albany Albany, NY, USA
New Caribbean Studies ISBN 978-3-319-32117-2 ISBN 978-3-319-32118-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32118-9
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for Henriette Van Eaghan and Ellice Collymore and for Henry Swanzy and Frank Collymore in memoriam
PERMISSIONS
I am grateful to Ellice Collymore for granting me access to the Frank Collymore Papers at the Department of Archives, Barbados. I also wish to thank the BBC for permission to reference the BBC Caribbean Voices scripts and for granting me access to the BBC Written Archives Center, Caversham Park, Reading, UK. I thank the Cadbury Research Library Special Collections at the University of Birmingham, UK, for access to the Henry Swanzy Papers MS 42
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