| dc.description.abstract | In this study, alienation is understood as a
situation in which the majorities in the Caribbean
are peripheral to; estranged from their world because
they have always been held in economic bondage, and
dependent upon this, in cultural bondage as well.
Secondly, that the author in railing to grasp the.
real cause and trends 'or this bondage within history,
and in railing to pave the directions for society in
a contemporary world is also thereby estranged from
these majorities.
The study argues that Caribbean literature cannot
be understood independently or the history and the
economy of the Caribbean society. This society was
founded for only One purpose - the production or the
raw materials that were necessary (later) for European
Industrialisation. The society was "controlled" by
absentee-landlords, while those who journeyed there
-- European overseers, African thralls and Asian
indentured labourers were forcibly ejected out of
their communities. They all shared in a common
estrangement from their original homelands............ | |
