1st Edition
Making Homes in the West/Indies Constructions of Subjectivity in the Writings of Michelle Cliff and Jamaica Kincaid
By Antonia Macdonald-Smythe
Copyright 2001
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study focuses on the ways in which two of the most prominent Caribbean women writers residing in the United States, Michelle Cliff and Jamaica Kincaid, have made themselves at home within Caribbean poetics, even as their migration to the United States affords them participation and acceptance within its literary space.
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Talking Back to the Bildungsroman; Chapter 3 Negotiating Exile; Chapter 4 Slippery Tongues; Chapter 5 W/righting History; Chapter 6 Kwik? Kwak!;
Biography
William E. Cain English Wellesley College
