Making Homes in the West/Indies: Constructions of Subjectivity in the Writings of Michelle Cliff and Jamaica Kincaid

ISBN-13: 9781138980228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str.

Antonia MacDonald-Smythe

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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!;

O autorze

William E. Cain English Wellesley College