New crossings : Caribbean migration naratives /
Morrison, Anthea,author.
"This interdisciplinary study focuses on recent migrant literature by five outstanding authors from the anglophone, francophone and hispanophone Caribbean: Maryse Condé, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Curdella Forbes and Caryl Phillips. Anthea Morrison offers a unique focus on Caribbean migration from a diverse corpus of texts. The analysis emphasizes the importance of travelling in the Caribbean imaginary and the discourse of identity and offers close readings of several migrant narratives."--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Edwidge Danticat: The immigrant writer as "witness from afar" -- Junot Díaz: "Soy dominicano, dominicano soy" -- Caryl Phillips: Stories from England, stories from home -- Maryse Condé's elusive origins: To Africa, again? -- Curdella Forbes: Of home soil in New Lands -- After the journey: Reinventing the self?
"This interdisciplinary study focuses on recent migrant literature by five outstanding authors from the anglophone, francophone and hispanophone Caribbean: Maryse Condé, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Curdella Forbes and Caryl Phillips. Anthea Morrison offers a unique focus on Caribbean migration from a diverse corpus of texts. The analysis emphasizes the importance of travelling in the Caribbean imaginary and the discourse of identity and offers close readings of several migrant narratives."--
Caribbean literature
Caribbean literature
Emigration and immigration in literature