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Shifting homelands, travelling identities: writers of the Caribbean diaspora

edited by Jasbir Jain & Supriya Agarwal
Resource Type:
Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:
Kingston ; Miami : Ian Randle, 2009

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Table of Contents:
  • Shaping the environment : sugar plantation or life after / Cyril Dabydeen
  • Teaching West Indian literature in Britain / David Dabydeen
  • Inventions of auto-narratives in Braithwaite and Phillips / Jasbir Jain
  • Images of the Caribbean in the early works of Jean Rhys / Manveen Brar
  • Between two cultures : a look at Seepersad Naipaul's stories / Purabi Panwar
  • The Indo-Caribbean short story : negotiations between social identity and self-concept / Sudha Rai
  • The politics of historical reconstruction : a study of V.S. Naipaul's The loss of El Dorado and A way in the world / Vishnupriya Sengupta
  • Negotiating V.S. Naipaul / Cyril Dabydeen
  • Metaphors of disintegration in Shiva Naipaul's The chip chip gatherers / Madhuri Chatterjee
  • Rites of passage : George Lamming's In the castle of my skin / Nidhi Singh
  • Race of races in Sam Selvon's Those who eat the cascadura / M. Rosary Royar
  • Conflict and resolution : Selvon's The plains of Caroni / Supriya Agarwal
  • Creating an independent reality : Sam Selvon's An island is a world / Charu Mathur
  • Diverse cultural icons and codes in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow / Asma Shamail
  • Negotiating interstitial spaces : Itwaru's Shanti and The unreturning / Mini Nanda
  • Cultural transformation in diaspora : Arnold Harrichand Itwaru's Shanti / Indira Babbellapati
  • Re-locating alter(native) voices of silence in Lakshmi Persaud's Raise the lanterns high / Jayita Sengupta
  • 'I cannot always be a little you' : daughter-mother (country) relationship in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John / Punam Gupta
  • Identity, subjectivity and voice : a reading of Austin Clarke's The polished hoe / C. Vijayshree
  • An interview with Ramabai Espinet / Elaine Savory.
Contributors:
Jain, Jasbir
Agarwal, Supriya
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Subjects:
Caribbean literature — History and criticism
Emigration and immigration in literature
West Indians — Migrations
Caribbean literature
West Indians
West Indies
Genres:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Physical Description:
ix, 288 pages ; 21 cm
Call Numbers:
PN849.C3 S55 2009
ISBNs:
9789766373665 (pbk.)
9766373663 (pbk.)
OCLC Numbers:
403480086