Emigration and Caribbean literature
By: Malachi McIntosh
Series: New Caribbean studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781137555892
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; History and criticism; Emigration and immigration; Caribbean Authors; Caribbean literature (English); Caribbean literature (French); LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
Description: "Emigration and Caribbean Literature is a fresh and necessary re-engagement with the generation of writers from the Caribbean Basin who journeyed to Europe to establish their names and literary reputations between and after the two World Wars. It reads across the Anglophone and Francophone traditions to take as its focus Lamming, Cape;cia, Naipaul, Ce;saire, Selvon, and Glissant, focusing firmly on their shared status as emigrants and the effects of their migration on the content and composition of their first works. By applying the theories of Antonio Gramsci, Pierre Bourdieu, and Pascale Casanova to readings of these authors' contexts and the content of their texts, the book reveals how World War-era Caribbean writers were pushed to represent themselves as authentic spokesmen for their people, self-representations that are everywhere undermined by fiction and poetry that express the specific concerns of Caribbean emigrant intellectuals"--

"Emigration and Caribbean Literature re-assesses the cohort of Caribbean authors who migrated to Britain and France between and after the two World Wars in order to analyse how their social situations as new colonial arrivals in a rapidly changing Europe influenced the reception, orientation and content of their first major works"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Island Lives and Metropolitan Eyes1. Organic Intellectuals and Caribbean Fields2. Participant-Observers: Emigration, Lamming, Naipaul, Selvon3. Migration as Escape: In the Castle of My Skin, Miguel Street, A Brighter Sun4. Patrons, Power Struggles, Position-takings: Emigration, Ce;saire, Glissant, Cape;cia5. Migrants as Martyrs: Notebook of a Return to Native Land, The Ripening, I Am A Martinican WomanConclusion: New Arrivals, Further Departures: Caribbean Movement and the Future.