"The Fiction of Robert Antoni: Writing in the Estuary" is the first full-length study of the work of this important Trinidadian/ Bahamian Caribbean writer. When his first novel, "Divina Trace", appeared in 1992, one critic compared it to a collaboration between James Joyce and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. But Antoni's fiction is startlingly original. Each of his subsequent books is quite different from the one before, but all have their common origin in generations of experience in the West Indies, much of which was passed down to Antoni through a rich family tradition of storytelling. The novels...
"The Fiction of Robert Antoni: Writing in the Estuary" is the first full-length study of the work of this important Trinidadian/ Bahamian Caribbean wr...
Expatriation, the sense of being "outside" or exposed, is a central theme in the life and work of Paul Bowles. Beginning with Bowles' account of a frightening childhood memory, A World Outside explores how the dichotomies of inside and outside, safety and danger, enclosure and exposure--fundamental dualities in Bowles' fiction--have their deepest origin in the fabric of Bowles' own life and also mark his kinship with other twentieth-century writers. Like V. S. Naipaul, Paul Bowles is one of those writers who have an uncanny grasp of what it is like never to feel "at home."
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Expatriation, the sense of being "outside" or exposed, is a central theme in the life and work of Paul Bowles. Beginning with Bowles' account of a ...
