Caribbean literature in a global context
By: edited by Funso Aiyejina & Paula Morgan.
Contributors: Aiyejina, Funso.; Morgan, Paula.
Publisher: Lexicon
Published: 2006
Place of publication: San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: West Indian literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; Literature and society -- West Indies -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Funso Aiyejina; title: Heirs of time / Jan Carew; title: "A Quartet of daffodils" only : negotiating specific and the relational in the context of multiculturalism and globalization / Jennifer Rahim; title: Home away from home?: the migration journey in selected West Indian fiction by women / Evelyn O'Callaghan; title: From a distance: territory, subjectivity and identity construction in Mootoo's "Cereus blooms at night" / Paula Morgan; title: Paradoxes of belonging: Child of the tropics and My mother's daughter / Sandra Pouchet Paquet; title: Walcott's here and elsewhere and the problematic of identity / Edward Baugh; title: Walcott's aesthetics and globalization's opportunities and challenges / Harold Mc Dermott; title: Colonizin Englan in reverse: Julian Henriques' Babymother / Rachel Moseley-Wood; title: Vile vocals : exporting Jamaican dancehall lyrics to Barbados / Carolyn Cooper; title: The watchman of the city: society vigilance, gun violence and the vigilante in dancehall-based black British popular fiction and Jamaican film / Loretta Collins; title: Drum and minuet: music, masquerade and the mulatto of style / Gordon Rohlehr; title: Miss Lou, some heirs and successors / Mervyn Morris; title: Healing into poetry: metaphor as a mechanism for metadiscourse in the poetry of Lorna Goodison / Barbara Lalla; title: Self-fashioning and the libidinal subject: The autobiography of my mother as sexual memoir / Antonia MacDonald-Smythe; title: mathematics and scenes of education in texts by Kincaid, Hodge and Chamoiseau / Maria Soledad Rodriguez.