Caribbean autobiography
Subtitle: cultural identity and self-representation
By: Sandra Pouchet Paquet.
Series: Wisconsin studies in autobiography
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780299176907; 9780299176945
Subjects: Autobiography; Caribbean Area -- Biography -- History and criticism; Authors, Caribbean -- Biography -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-320) and index.
Table of contents: title: Testing and testifying: the Hart sisters; title: The heartbeat of a West Indian slave: The history of Mary Prince; title: The enigma of arrival: Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole; title: "The traveling Ulysses scene": Claude McKay's A long way from home and My green hills of Jamaica; title: Blurred genres, blended voices: George Lamming's In the castle of my skin; title: Autobiographical frameworks and linked discourses: George Lamming's The pleasures of exile and C.L.R. James's Beyond a boundary; title: Poetic autobiography: Derek Walcott's Another life; title: Fragments of epic memory: V.S. Naipaul's Finding the center and A way in the world; title: Maternal bonds: My mother's daughter: the autobiography of Anna Mahase., snr., 1899-1978; title: Colonist and Creole: Yseult Bridges's Child of the tropics and Jean Rhys's Smile please; title: Beyond consolation: Kamau Brathwaite's The Zea Mexican diary; title: Death and sexuality: Jamaica Kincaid's My brother.