Emigration and Caribbean Literature

ISBN-13: 9781137555892 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 244 str.

Malachi McIntosh

Opis

Emigration and Caribbean Literature is a fresh and necessary re-engagement with the generation of writers from the Caribbean Basin who journeyed to Europe to establish their names and literary reputations between and after the two World Wars. It reads across the Anglophone and Francophone traditions to take as its focus George Lamming, Mayotte Capecia, V.S. Naipaul, Aime Cesaire, Samuel Selvon, and Edouard Glissant, focusing firmly on their shared status as emigrants and the effects of their migration on the content and composition of their first works. By applying the theories of Antonio Gramsci, Pierre Bourdieu, and Pascale Casanova to readings of these authors' contexts and the content of their texts, Malachi McIntosh reveals how World War-era Caribbean writers were pushed to represent themselves as authentic spokesmen for their people.

Recenzje

"This project makes a significant contribution to the diasporic Caribbean community and the reinvention of various disciplines well beyond the Caribbean through the work of feminist scholars. ... McIntosh does succeed in analysing the French reading public very well within the French field for French Caribbean writing. His intellectual grasp of the histories of both the Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean literature during French Guiana, Guadeloupe and Martinique's war era is pioneering." (Marquise Émilie du Châtelet, Avello publishing Journal, Vol. 5 (1), January, 2015)

O autorze

Malachi McIntosh is a Lecturer of English at the University of Cambridge, UK.