Washed by the Gulf Stream : the historic and geographic relation of Irish and Caribbean literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McGarrity, Maria, 1970-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Newark : Cranbury, NJ : University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, [2008]
Subjects:	English literature > Irish authors > History and criticism. Caribbean literature (English) > History and criticism. Ireland > In literature. Caribbean Area > In literature. Geography in literature. Islands in literature. Colonies in literature. Emigration and immigration in literature. Irish > Caribbean Area > History.

Table of Contents:

Altering the "age of silence" : historical contexts for the study of Irish and Caribbean literature
Geography, sexual transgression, and flight in big house and plantation novels
Washed by the Gulf Stream : the epic drives of Joyce and Walcott
Geographies of exile : from James Joyce and George Lamming to Jamaica Kincaid and Frank McCourt.