Transnational narratives from the Caribbean : diasporic literature and the human experience /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pulitano, Elvira, 1970- (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, [2016]
Series:	Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 63.
Subjects:	Caribbean literature (English) > Black authors > History and criticism. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. African diaspora in literature. Transnationalism in literature. Race in literature. Exiles in literature. Caribbean Area > In literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Caribbean Diasporas and Narrated Lives
Diasporic Homelands. When Home Hurts: Edwidge Danticat's Journeys of Healing
Absent Fathers and Crumbling Origins: Jamaica Kincaid and the (Im)possibility of Home
"I and Jamaica is Who I am": Michelle Cliff's Ambivalent Homecomings
Caryl Phillips's Transatlantic Homes
Uprooting, Migrancy, Regrounding: Re-Writing Exile. Routes, Roots, and Imaginary Nations: Jamaica Kincaid's Restless Gardens and Michelle Cliff's Dangerous Crossings
Homines Sacri: The Discourse of Refugees in Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying and Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore
Paradise Islands, Wild Nature, and the Contemporary Tourist Gaze: Re/locating the Caribbean. Edwidge Danticat's Landscapes of Memory
In the Land of Look Behind: Rebellion and Resistance in Michelle Cliff
Abject Bodies, Dis/eased Islands: Jamaica Kincaid's Elegiac Song to Antigua
Back to the Roots: Caryl Phillips' Caribbean Land(Sea)scapes
Epilogue: Caribbean Diasporic Voices in a Post-9/11 America.