Transnational negotiations in Caribbean diasporic literature
Subtitle: remitting the text
By: by Kezia Page.
Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures -- v. 29
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415873628; 9780203844700
Subjects: Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism; American literature -- Caribbean American authors -- History and criticism; English literature -- Caribbean authors -- History and criticism; Emigration and immigration in literature; Displacement (Psychology) in literature; Caribbean Area -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: theorizing diaspora, theorizing home; title: Creating diaspora: Caribbean migrant literature in England and North America, 1930s-1960s; title: Migrant bodies, scars and tattoos: art as terror and transformation in Edwidge Danticat's Brother I'm dying and The dew breaker; title: "Two places can make children": metaphysics, authorship and the borders of diaspora; title: Rethinking a Caribbean literary economy: Jamaica Kincaid's My brother and Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani House as remittance texts; title: "No abiding city"?: theorizing deportation in Caribbean migrant fiction; title: Afterword: on the edge of the world.