Making Homes in the West/indies - Constructions of Subjectivity in Writings of Michelle Cliff Jamaica

Informationen zum Autor William E. Cain English Wellesley College Klappentext This study focuses on the ways in which two of the most prominent Caribbean women writers residing in the United States, Michelle Cliff and Jamaica Kincaid, have made themselves at home within Caribbean poetics, even as their migration to the United States affords them participation and acceptance within its literary space. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Talking Back to the Bildungsroman; Chapter 3 Negotiating Exile; Chapter 4 Slippery Tongues; Chapter 5 W/righting History; Chapter 6 Kwik? Kwak!;

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• Authors: Antonia Macdonald-Smythe, Macdonald-Smythe Antonia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.05.2016
• EAN: 9781138980228
• ISBN: 978-1-138-98022-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General