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Caribbean autobiography : cultural identity and self-representation /

The rich literary tradition of English-language autobiography in the Caribbean, from Mary Prince and Jean Rhys to Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, and Jamaica Kincaid -- Despite the range and abundance of autobiographical writing from the Anglophone Caribbean, this book is the first to explore this lite...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Paquet, Sandra Pouchet
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2002.
Colección:Wisconsin studies in autobiography.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Testing and testifying : the Hart sisters
  • The heartbeat of a West Indian slave : the history of Mary Prince
  • The enigma of arrival : wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole
  • "The traveling Ulysses scene" : Claude McKay's A long way from home and My green hills of Jamaica
  • Blurred genres, blended voices : George Lamming's In the castle of my skin
  • Autobiographical frameworks and linked discourses : George Lamming's The pleasures of exile and C.L.R. James's Beyond a boundary
  • Poetic autobiography : Derek Walcott's Another life
  • Fragments of epic memory : V.S. Naipaul's Finding the center and A way in the world
  • Maternal bonds : My mother's daughter : the autobiography of Anna Mahase., snr., 1899-1978
  • Colonist and Creole: Yseult Bridges's Child of the tropics and Jean Rhys's Smile please
  • Beyond consolation : Kamau Brathwaite's The Zea Mexican diary
  • Death and sexuality : Jamaica Kincaid's My brother.