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Emigration and Caribbean literature / Malachi McIntosh

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McIntosh, Malachi, 1980-
Published
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
244 pages ; 23 cm.

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Contents
Introduction: Island Lives and Metropolitan Eyes -- 1. Organic Intellectuals and Caribbean Fields -- 2. Participant-Observers: Emigration, Lamming, Naipaul, Selvon -- 3. Migration as Escape: In the Castle of My Skin, Miguel Street, A Brighter Sun -- 4. Patrons, Power Struggles, Position-takings: Emigration, Césaire, Glissant, Capécia -- 5. Migrants as Martyrs: Notebook of a Return to Native Land, The Ripening, I Am a Martinican Woman -- Conclusion: New Arrivals, Further Departures: Caribbean Movement and the Future.
Summary
"Emigration and Caribbean Literature is a fresh and necessary re-engagement with the generation of writers from the Caribbean Basin who journeyed to Europe to establish their names and literary reputations between and after the two World Wars. It reads across the Anglophone and Francophone traditions to take as its focus Lamming, Cape;cia, Naipaul, Ce;saire, Selvon, and Glissant, focusing firmly on their shared status as emigrants and the effects of their migration on the content and composition of their first works. By applying the theories of Antonio Gramsci, Pierre Bourdieu, and Pascale Casanova to readings of these authors' contexts and the content of their texts, the book reveals how World War-era Caribbean writers were pushed to represent themselves as authentic spokesmen for their people, self-representations that are everywhere undermined by fiction and poetry that express the specific concerns of Caribbean emigrant intellectuals"--
"Emigration and Caribbean Literature re-assesses the cohort of Caribbean authors who migrated to Britain and France between and after the two World Wars in order to analyse how their social situations as new colonial arrivals in a rapidly changing Europe influenced the reception, orientation and content of their first major works"--
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9781137555892 hardcover
1137555890 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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