Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-99877-3 (ISBN)
Elvira Pulitano is Professor of Ethnic Studies at California Polytechnic States University, San Luis Obispo, where she teaches African Diaspora and Indigenous Studies. Previous publications include TOWARD A NATIVE AMERICAN CRITICAL THEORY (2003) and an edited volume titled INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF THE UN DECLARATION (2012).
Introduction: Caribbean Diasporas and Narrated Lives Part I: Diasporic Homelands 1: When Home Hurts: Edwidge Danticat’s Journeys of Healing 2: Absent Fathers and Crumbling Origins: Jamaica Kincaid and the (Im)possibility of Home 3: "I and Jamaica is Who I am": Michelle Cliff’s Ambivalent Homecomings 4: Caryl Phillips’s Transatlantic Homes Part II: Uprooting, Migrancy, Regrounding: Re-Writing Exile 5: Routes, Roots, and Imaginary Nations: Jamaica Kincaid’s Restless Gardens and Michelle Cliff’s Dangerous Crossings 6: Homines Sacri: The Discourse of Refugees in Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying and Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore Part III: Paradise Islands, Wild Nature, and the Contemporary Tourist Gaze: Re/locating the Caribbean 7: Edwidge Danticat’s Landscapes of Memory 8: In the Land of Look Behind: Rebellion and Resistance in Michelle Cliff 9: Abject Bodies, Dis/eased Islands: Jamaica Kincaid’s Elegiac Song to Antigua 10: Back to the Roots: Caryl Phillips’s Caribbean Land(Sea)scapes Epilogue: Caribbean Diasporic Voices in a Post-9/11 America
Erscheinungsdatum | 18.03.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 498 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-99877-X / 113899877X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-99877-3 / 9781138998773 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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