Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-190) and index.
Contents:
Edwidge Danticat: The Immigrant Writer as "Witness from Afar" -- Junot Díaz: "Soy dominicano, dominicano soy" -- Caryl Phillips: Stories from England, Stories from Home -- Maryse Condé's Elusive Origins: To Africa, Again? -- Curdella Forbes: Of Home Soil in New Lands -- After the Journey: Reinventing the Self?
Summary:
"This interdisciplinary study focuses on recent migrant literature by five outstanding authors from the anglophone, francophone and hispanophone Caribbean: Maryse Condé, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Curdella Forbes and Caryl Phillips. Anthea Morrison offers a unique focus on Caribbean migration from a diverse corpus of texts. The analysis emphasizes the importance of travelling in the Caribbean imaginary and the discourse of identity and offers close readings of several migrant narratives."-- Back cover,
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