Title: Caribbean literature in a global context /
Authors: Aiyejina, Funso.; Morgan, Paula.
Publisher: Lexicon,
Year: 2006
Subjects: West Indian literature History and criticism Congresses.; Literature and society West Indies Congresses.
Contents: Introduction / Funso Aiyejina -- Heirs of time / Jan Carew -- "A Quartet of daffodils" only : negotiating specific and the relational in the context of multiculturalism and globalization / Jennifer Rahim -- Home away from home?: the migration journey in selected West Indian fiction by women / Evelyn O'Callaghan -- From a distance: territory, subjectivity and identity construction in Mootoo's "Cereus blooms at night" / Paula Morgan -- Paradoxes of belonging: Child of the tropics and My mother's daughter / Sandra Pouchet Paquet -- Walcott's here and elsewhere and the problematic of identity / Edward Baugh -- Walcott's aesthetics and globalization's opportunities and challenges / Harold Mc Dermott -- Colonizin Englan in reverse: Julian Henriques' Babymother / Rachel Moseley-Wood -- Vile vocals : exporting Jamaican dancehall lyrics to Barbados / Carolyn Cooper -- The watchman of the city: society vigilance, gun violence and the vigilante in dancehall-based black British popular fiction and Jamaican film / Loretta Collins -- Drum and minuet: music, masquerade and the mulatto of style / Gordon Rohlehr -- Miss Lou, some heirs and successors / Mervyn Morris -- Healing into poetry: metaphor as a mechanism for metadiscourse in the poetry of Lorna Goodison / Barbara Lalla -- Self-fashioning and the libidinal subject: The autobiography of my mother as sexual memoir / Antonia MacDonald-Smythe -- mathematics and scenes of education in texts by Kincaid, Hodge and Chamoiseau / maria Soledad Rodriguez.