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Introduction -- Creating Diaspora: Caribbean Migrant Literature In England And North America, 1930s-1960s -- Migrant Bodies, Scars And Tattoos: Art As Terror And Transformation In Edwidge Danticat's Brother I'm Dying And The Dew Breaker -- Two Places Can Make Children: Metaphysics, Authorship And The Borders Of Diaspora -- Rethinking A Caribbean Literary Economy: Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother And Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani House As Remittance Texts -- No Abiding City?: Theorizing Deportation In Caribbean Migrant Fiction -- Afterword: On The Edge Of The World. Kezia Page. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
This work investigates how Caribbean diasporic literature functions as a transnational economic and cultural system, specifically analyzing the concept of the 'remittance text.' Kezia Ann Page, an academic specializing in postcolonial and Caribbean literature, examines the intersection of migration, authorship, and identity. By analyzing works from the 1930s to the present, she argues that these texts serve as conduits for the exchange of capital, trauma, and cultural memory between the Caribbean and its global diaspora.
What You Will Find
Scholars in the field of postcolonial studies identify this text as a rigorous contribution to the understanding of Caribbean literary economies. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose and the depth of the author's engagement with transnational theory.
Page Count:
187
Publication Date:
2010-01-01
Publisher:
Routledge
ISBN-10:
020384470X
ISBN-13:
9780203844700
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