Title Transnational negotiations in Caribbean diasporic literature : remitting the text / Kezia Page

Published New York : Routledge, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 158 pages) Series Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 29 Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 29. Contents Introduction -- Creating diaspora: Caribbean migrant literature in England and North America, 1930s-1960s -- Migrant bodies, scars and tattoos: art as terror and transformation in Edwidge Danticat's Brother I'm dying and The dew breaker -- "Two places can make children": metaphysics, authorship and the borders of diaspora -- Rethinking a Caribbean literary economy: Jamaica Kincaid's My brother and Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani House as remittance texts -- "No abiding city"?: theorizing deportation in Caribbean migrant fiction -- Afterword: on the edge of the world Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism American literature -- Caribbean American authors -- History and criticism English literature -- Caribbean authors -- History and criticism Emigration and immigration in literature. Displacement (Psychology) in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature -- Caribbean American authors Caribbean literature (English) Displacement (Psychology) in literature Emigration and immigration in literature English literature -- Caribbean authors Literature Migration -- Motiv -- Englische Literatur -- Westindien. Englische Literatur -- Westindien -- Motiv -- Migration. SUBJECT Caribbean Area -- In literature Subject Caribbean Area Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203844700 020384470X

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