1st Edition

Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature Remitting the Text

By Kezia Page Copyright 2011
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

187 Pages
by Routledge

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Page casts light on the role of citizenship, immigration, and transnational mobility in Caribbean migrant and diaspora fiction. Page's historical, socio-cultural study responds to the general trend in migration discourse that presents the Caribbean experience as unidirectional and uniform across the geographical spaces of home and diaspora. She... Read more

Acknowledgments Introduction: Theorizing Diaspora, Theorizing Home 1: Creating Diaspora: Caribbean Migrant Literature in England and North America, 1930’s-1960’s 2: Migrant Bodies, Scars and Tattoos: Art as Terror and Transformation in Edwidge Danticat’s Brother I’m Dying and The Dew Breaker 3: "Two places can make children?": Metaphysics, Authorship and the Borders of Diaspora 4: Rethinking a Caribbean Literary Economy: Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother and Beryl Gilroy’s Frangipani House as Remittance Texts 5: "No Abiding City": Theorizing Deportation in Caribbean Migrant Fiction Afterword: On the Edge of the World Notes Bibliography Index

Biography

Kezia Page is Assistant Professor of English at Colgate University.