The caribbean novel since 1945
Subtitle: cultural practice, form, and the nation-state
By: Michael Niblett
Series: Caribbean studies series
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781617032479; 9781617032486
Subjects: Caribbean fiction; History and criticism; Postmodernism in literature; Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Cultural practice, creolization, and the nation-state; title: The promise of national independence: Modernity, allegory, and sacrifice; title: "The people living a life every man for himself": Problems in the postindependence body (politic); title: Literary deliriums: Cultural expression, commodity fetishism and the search for community; title: From breakdown to rebirth: Ritual reconfigurations of the Nation-state; title: "No pain like this body": Race, gender, and sexuality in a time of crisis.