Washed by the Gulf Stream
Subtitle: the historic and geographic relation of Irish and Caribbean literature
By: Maria McGarrity.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Newark; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780874130287
Subjects: English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism; Geography in literature; Islands in literature; Colonies in literature; Emigration and immigration in literature; Irish -- Caribbean Area -- History; Ireland -- In literature; Caribbean Area -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Altering the "age of silence" : historical contexts for the study of Irish and Caribbean literature; title: Geography, sexual transgression, and flight in big house and plantation novels; title: Washed by the Gulf Stream : the epic drives of Joyce and Walcott; title: Geographies of exile : from James Joyce and George Lamming to Jamaica Kincaid and Frank McCourt.