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From nation to diaspora : Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the cultural performance of gender /
This book is the first comprehensive treatment of gender in the fictions of Samuel Selvon and George Lamming, two West Indian writers who are rarely analysed together. It demystifies discourses of creolization and nationalism, showing that these have masked complexities of gender in West Indian soci...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kingston, Jamaica ; Barbados ; Trinidad and Tobago :
University of the West Indies Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book is the first comprehensive treatment of gender in the fictions of Samuel Selvon and George Lamming, two West Indian writers who are rarely analysed together. It demystifies discourses of creolization and nationalism, showing that these have masked complexities of gender in West Indian society, and that the maskings are in turn part of a larger masking of neocolonial threads within the nationalist project. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 305 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-289) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9766401713 9789766401719 1435630920 9781435630925 |