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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Madison :
University of Wisconsin Press,
©2002.
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Collection: | Wisconsin studies in autobiography.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.