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Author Forbes, Curdella.

Title From nation to diaspora : Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the cultural performance of gender / Curdella Forbes
Published Mona, Jamaica : UWIPress, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 305 pages)
Contents The necessity of gender: Selvon, Lamming and the re-imagination of culture -- Representations of gender in the nationalist period: images, foundations and performances -- Representing exile: the flight from gender in Selvon's Lonely Londoners, Moses Ascending and the Housing Lark -- Going home: performing masculinity in A Brighter Sun and Turn Again Tiger -- The construction of gender as anti-colonial discourse: Lamming's Of Age and Innoncence and Season of Adventure -- Theorizing the feminine and the body in Natives of my Person and The Emigrants -- All this, diasporic and the postmodern
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Selvon, Samuel -- Criticism and interpretation
Lamming, George, 1927-2022 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Lamming, George, 1927-2022 fast
Selvon, Samuel fast
Subject West Indian literature (English) -- History and criticism
Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism
Gender identity in literature.
Feminism and literature -- West Indies
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Caribbean literature (English)
Feminism and literature
Gender identity in literature
West Indian literature (English)
West Indies
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781435630925
1435630920