Making Homes in the West/Indies
Subtitle: Constructions of Subjectivity in the Writings of Michelle Cliff and Jamaica Kincaid (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 2, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780815340379
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Multicultural studies; Novels, other prose & writers; Women and literature; Literary Criticism; Kincaid, Jamaica - Prose & Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; Caribbean islands; USA; Caribbean & Latin American; Kincaid, Jamaica; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Cliff, Michelle; 20th century; Criticism and interpretation; History; Self in literature; Subjectivity in literature; West Indies
First sentence: The restlessness and dissatisfaction that initiate the literary subject's movement away from the familial and the familiar and the anxiety to become an articulate and an articulating self are widespread anxieties.