LX the Love Axe/ l : Notes and Commentary

At once a manifesto for a revolutionary Caribbean aesthetics, a work of detailed literary analysis and a scholarly documentation of a vital period in Caribbean history, Love Axe/l is unique and indispensable.

As a work of literary and cultural history it deals not only with significant texts, but with the wider artistic, popular and intellectual movements which were part of the profound revolution in West Indian post-colonial consciousness which is the book's subject.

In addition to major discussions of the work of Paule Marshall, Roger Mais, Derek Walcott, George Lamming and Jean Rhys, there is, most valuably, extensive coverage of the flowering of innovative writing published during the later 1960s-1970s.