Alien-nation and repatriation : translating identity in Anglophone Caribbean literature
"Alien-Nation and Repatriation examines emergence and transformations in representations of national identity in Anglophone Caribbean literary traditions. This study examines the extent to which gender, migration, and female sexuality frame the earliest representations of Caribbean identity in literature by West Indian authors."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2007
Lexington Books, Lanham, ©2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 181 pages ; 24 cm.
9780739114698, 9780739114704, 0739114697, 0739114700
156845848
Introduction : imagining the impossible
The Trinidad renaissance : building a nation, building a self
The pleasures/privileges of exile : re/covering race and sexuality in The Pleasures of Exile and Water with Berries
Gender and genre : the logic of language and the logistics of identity
Routes and roots : re(in)scribing the meaning of home
Boundaries, borders, and the unhoused : re-routing Black identity in North America
Conclusion : mapping meaning and identity