Emigration and Caribbean Literature
Published on 29. September 2015
Book
Hardback
IX, 244 pages
978-1-137-55589-2 (ISBN)
Description
During and after the two World Wars, a cohort of Caribbean authors migrated to the UK and France. Dissecting writers like Lamming, Césaire, and Glissant, McIntosh reveals how these Caribbean writers were pushed to represent themselves as authentic spokesmen for their people, coming to represent the concerns of the emigrant intellectual community.
Reviews / Votes
"This project makes a significant contribution to the diasporic Caribbean community and the reinvention of various disciplines well beyond the Caribbean through the work of feminist scholars. . McIntosh does succeed in analysing the French reading public very well within the French field for French Caribbean writing. His intellectual grasp of the histories of both the Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean literature during French Guiana, Guadeloupe and Martinique's war era is pioneering." (Marquise Émilie du Châtelet, Avello publishing Journal, Vol. 5 (1), January, 2015)
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
IX, 244 p.
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
460 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-55589-2 (9781137555892)
DOI
10.1057/9781137543219
Schweitzer Classification
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Emigration and Caribbean Literature
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Person
Malachi McIntosh is a Lecturer of English at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Content
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, Cesaire, Glissant, Capecia 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