Caribbean Autobiography: Cultural Identity and Self-RepresentationUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 07.06.2002 - 345 Seiten The rich literary tradition of English-language autobiography in the Caribbean, from Mary Prince and Jean Rhys to Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, and Jamaica Kincaid -- Despite the range and abundance of autobiographical writing from the Anglophone Caribbean, this book is the first to explore this literature fully. It covers works from the colonial era up to present-day AIDS memoirs and assesses the links between more familiar works by George Lamming, C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, and Jamaica Kincaid and less frequently cited works by the Hart sisters, Mary Prince, Mary Seacole, Claude McKay, Yseult Bridges, Jean Rhys, Anna Mahase, and Kamau Brathwaite. Sandra Pouchet Paquet charts the intersection of multiple, contradictory viewpoints of the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean, differing concepts of community and levels of social integration, and a persistent pattern of both resistance and accommodation within island states that were largely shaped by British colonial practice from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-twentieth century. The texts examined here reflect the entire range of autobiographical practice, including the slave narrative and testimonial, written and oral narratives, spiritual autobiographies, fiction, serial autobiography, verse, diaries and journals, elegy, and parody. "Truly breaks new ground in the field of Caribbean letters." a" Carole Boyce Davies, Northwestern University Sandra Pouchet Paquet is professor of English at the University of Miami and is the author of The Novels of George Lamming. She has been guest editor of the journals Callaloo and West Indian Literature. She was born in Trinidad. |
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... Rhys that , even though rooted in a conservative Victorianism , both Child of the Tropics and Smile Please may be read as postcolonial texts . Rhys's penetration of Caribbean literary consciousness does not occur until the publication ...
... Rhys that , even though rooted in a conservative Victorianism , both Child of the Tropics and Smile Please may be read as postcolonial texts . Rhys's penetration of Caribbean literary consciousness does not occur until the publication ...
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... Rhys's unfinished autobiography , which she titled " Smile Please , " rather than with the second section , “ It Began to Grow Cold . " As her editor , Diana Athill , explains in an editor's note , Rhys did not consider the material in ...
... Rhys's unfinished autobiography , which she titled " Smile Please , " rather than with the second section , “ It Began to Grow Cold . " As her editor , Diana Athill , explains in an editor's note , Rhys did not consider the material in ...
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... Rhys ' works , 217 , 220-21 , 224 ; and Seacole , 14 , 15 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 63 , 66 , 67 , 71 , 277n12 ; and slave narratives as autobiography , 35 ; and values , 276n4 ; in Walcott's works , 83 , 154 , 157 , 160 ...
... Rhys ' works , 217 , 220-21 , 224 ; and Seacole , 14 , 15 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 63 , 66 , 67 , 71 , 277n12 ; and slave narratives as autobiography , 35 ; and values , 276n4 ; in Walcott's works , 83 , 154 , 157 , 160 ...
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Gender Voice and SelfRepresentation | 11 |
The Hart Sisters | 21 |
Wonderful | 51 |
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Adventures African American Antigua artistic authority autobiography Black Jacobins boundaries Brathwaite Brathwaite's British Brother C. L. R. James Caliban Caribbean literary Castle child childhood Claude McKay colonial consciousness context creative Creole Crimea death Derek Walcott discourse distinct elegy England English ethnic experience Finding the Center gender George Lamming Granada Green Hills Hart sisters identification identity ideological individual intellectual island Jamaica Jamaica Kincaid James's Jean Rhys Kamau Kincaid Lamming Lamming's landscape language Long Mahase male Mary Prince Mary Seacole McKay's memory mother Naipaul narrator native space observes Pleasures of Exile poet poetic political quest race racial rative relationship resistance Rhys Rhys's ritual Seacole's self-consciousness sense sexual Skin slave narrative slavery social specific spirit story Thomas Pringle tion tradition transformed Trinidad trope values village voice Walcott West Indian West Indies woman women writing Zea Mexican Diary