Analyse the major events that shaped the post-independence literature.
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Literature and the post-independence Guyanese society remains a topic of some interest and significance. It is still important and worthwhile to analyse some features that shaped the literature and some important features that emerged in the more than 40 years of the post-independence period. However, the contemporary literature is wide, varied and difficult to organise in the usual sweeping generalisations. Talk of independence Guyanese literature is very often a cliché, but there are areas of specific development and a few significant factors worth documenting.
These include the rise of East Indian writing, the factors of nationalism, republicanism, writing out of the Amerindian ethos and the fiction and poetry of Guyanese politics that emerged after the 1980s.