Making homes in the West/Indies
Subtitle: constructions of subjectivity in the writings of Michelle Cliff and Jamaica Kincaid
By: Antonia MacDonald-Smythe.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Garland; Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Cliff, Michelle -- Criticism and interpretation; Kincaid, Jamaica -- Criticism and interpretation; Women and literature -- West Indies -- History -- 20th century; Subjectivity in literature; Self in literature; West Indies -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-202) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: Kwik? Kwak! : Narrations of the Self. 1; title: Chapter 1.; title: Talking Back to the Bildungsroman. 29; title: Chapter 2.; title: Negotiating Exile: Take your Bundle and Leave and Go! 71; title: Chapter 3; title: Slippery Tongues: Re/Claiming Orality as a; title: Tactic of Intervention. 109; title: Chapter 4.; title: W/righting History: Locating the Traveling Subject.141; title: Chapter 5; title: Kwik? Kwak!: Infinite Chronicles of the World and the Word.173.