The Modernisation of the
Trinidadian Landscape in the Novels of
Earl Lovelace
EVELYN
O'CALLAGHAN
IN
T H E F O U R P U B L I S H E D N O V E L S of E a r l Lovelace, the employment of a religious frame of reference and the stress placed on the
sacred power of ritual to affirm cultural identity (by serving as a
bridge to ancestral tradition ), are two of the devices which have
led readers to perceive a mythic patterning of the specifically West
Indian subject matter. Lovelace's setting is T r i…
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