Lx the Love Axe/1: Developing a Caribbean Aesthetic

At once a manifesto for a revolutionary Caribbean aesthetics, a composition of detailed literary analysis, and a scholarly documentation of a vital period in Caribbean history, this work is singular and indispensable. As a study of literary and cultural history, it deals not only with significant texts, but with the wider artistic, popular, and intellectual movements that were part of the profound revolution in Caribbean post-colonial consciousness.