Transnational negotiations in Caribbean diasporic literature : remitting the text
by
 
Page, Kezia Ann.

Title
Transnational negotiations in Caribbean diasporic literature : remitting the text

Author
Page, Kezia Ann.

ISBN
9780415873628
 
9780203844700

Personal Author
Page, Kezia Ann.

Publication Information
New York : Routledge, 2011.

Physical Description
158 p. ; 24 cm.

Series
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 29
 
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 29.

Contents
Introduction -- Creating diaspora: Caribbean migrant literature in England and North America, 1930s-1960s -- Migrant bodies, scars and tattoos: art as terror and transformation in Edwidge Danticat's Brother I'm dying and The dew breaker -- "Two places can make children": metaphysics, authorship and the borders of diaspora -- Rethinking a Caribbean literary economy: Jamaica Kincaid's My brother and Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani House as remittance texts -- "No abiding city"?: theorizing deportation in Caribbean migrant fiction -- Afterword: on the edge of the world.

Subject Term
Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism.
 
American literature -- Caribbean American authors -- History and criticism.
 
English literature -- Caribbean authors -- History and criticism.
 
Emigration and immigration in literature.
 
Displacement (Psychology) in literature.

Geographic Term
Caribbean Area -- In literature.


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