Situating Caribbean literature and criticism in multicultural and postcolonial studies
By: Seodial Frank H. Deena.
Series: Caribbean studies -- v. 11
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820462226
Subjects: Caribbean literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: A critical overview of Caribbean studies as pioneer of and central to postcolonial and multicultural studies; value: Synonymy of multiculturalism and postcolonialism through globalization; value: Centrality of Caribbean literature depicting postcolonial and multicultural preoccupations; value: Finding a place to call home in the mother country; value: The significance of the "tenement yard" in Caribbean nationalism as reflected in Caribbean literature; value: Multicultural and postcolonial interpretations of Caribbean literature and its environment; value: Colonialism and capitalism : Biblical allusion of the corrupting force of money in selected Caribbean literature; value: Color complication and confrontation in Caribbean culture as depicted in Trevor Rhone's Old story time; value: Disorder and mimicry through colonial apparatuses in V.S. Naipaul's The mimic men; value: Colonial alienation producing madness in Jean Rhys' Wild Sargasso Sea.