Title: Market aesthetics : the purchase of the past in Caribbean diasporic fiction /
Authors: Machado Sáez, Elena,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Caribbean literature (English) History and criticism; Historical fiction History and criticism; Multiculturalism in literature.; Caribbean literature (English); Historical fiction; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Multiculturalism in literature.; Caribbean Area Influence.; Caribbean Area
Contents: Marketing multicultural ethnics, promoting postcolonial ethics -- Mixed blessings : readerships, postcolonial ethics, and the problem of intimacy -- Kinship routes : contextualizing diaspora via the market in Andrea Levy and David Chariandy -- Writing the reader : literacy and contradictory pedagogies in Julia Alvarez, Michelle Cliff, and Marlon James -- Messy intimacies : postcolonial romance in Ana Menéndez, Dionne Brand, and Monique Roffey -- Dictating diaspora : gendering postcolonial violence in Junot Díaz and Edwidge Danticat -- Electronic archives and the digital futures of Caribbean diasporic writing.