THE JOKER FROM THE DECK, OR THE MAGICAL REALITY OF CARIBBEAN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Abstract

The article studies the collection of short stories “The Werewolf” by the Anglo-Guyanese writer Pauline Melville, which is one of the colorful examples of modern multicultural literature. Over the seventy years of its history, the literature of the countries of the British Caribbean, and then the independent West Indian region, has developed quite intensively, exerting a significant influence on the fiction of representatives of the West Indian diaspora and on verbal creativity in the world. The dramatic colonial history of the Caribbean region, exacerbated often by forced migration not only from Africa, but also from British India and China, caused various social, economic, political and racial problems, which became the subject of artistic reinterpretation in the works of writers whose historical roots are more or less connected with the colonial empire built by Great Britain.