Making Homes in the West/Indies

Constructions of Subjectivity in the Writings of Michelle Cliff and Jamaica Kincaid
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8153-4037-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Macdonald-Smythe, Antonia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

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!;

Über Autor(innen)

William E. Cain English Wellesley College