On Not Being Milton: Nigger Talk in England Today.
- Author / Editor
- Dabydeen, David.
On Not Being Milton: Nigger Talk in England Today.
- Published
- Maggie Butcher, ed. Tibisiri: Caribbean Writers and Critics (Sydney: Dangaroo Press, 1989), pp. 121-35.
- Description
- Interrogates differences and tensions between modern black British poetry and the dominant Anglo-American tradition, focusing on the use of "Caribbean creole" to resist colonial subordination of black voices. Refers to Chaucer and the tradition of pentameter verse as constraint, and contrasts Chaucer's use of London-based English with the "sheer naked energy and brutality" of the language of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
- Contributor
- Butcher, Maggie, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Tibisiri: Caribbean Writers and Critics.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Language and Word Studies
Style and Versification