Title: From nation to diaspora : Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the cultural performance of gender /
Authors: Forbes, Curdella
Publisher: UWIPress,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Selvon, Samuel Criticism and interpretation.; Lamming, George, Criticism and interpretation.; West Indian literature (English) History and criticism.; Caribbean literature (English) History and criticism; Gender identity in literature.; Feminism and literature West Indies.
Contents: The necessity of gender: Selvon, Lamming and the re-imagination of culture -- Representations of gender in the nationalist period: images, foundations and performances -- Representing exile: the flight from gender in Selvon's Lonely Londoners, Moses Ascending and the Housing Lark -- Going home: performing masculinity in A Brighter Sun and Turn Again Tiger -- The construction of gender as anti-colonial discourse: Lamming's Of Age and Innoncence and Season of Adventure -- Theorizing the feminine and the body in Natives of my Person and The Emigrants -- All this, diasporic and the postmodern.