Elvira Pulitano

Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean (eBook, PDF)

Diasporic Literature and the Human Experience

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book affirms the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations. Focusing on the Caribbean double-diaspora, it considers works by Kincaid, Cliff, Danticat, and Phillips. It re-thinks socio-scientific analyses of diaspora by discussing the embodied experience of diasporic communities, drawing on Caribbean, Postcolonial, Diaspora, and Indigenous Studies along with theories on "border thinking" and coloniality/modernity. Pulitano situates the transnational location of Caribbean-born writers within current debates and explores the role of immigrant writers in discourses of race, ethnicity, citizenship, and belonging.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317331285
• Artikelnr.: 44867331

Autorenporträt

Elvira Pulitano is Professor of Ethnic Studies at California Polytechnic States University, San Luis Obispo, where she teaches African Diaspora and Indigenous Studies. Previous publications include TOWARD A NATIVE AMERICAN CRITICAL THEORY (2003) and an edited volume titled INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF THE UN DECLARATION (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Caribbean Diasporas and Narrated Lives Part I: Diasporic
Homelands 1: When Home Hurts: Edwidge Danticat's Journeys of Healing 2:
Absent Fathers and Crumbling Origins: Jamaica Kincaid and the
(Im)possibility of Home 3: "I and Jamaica is Who I am": Michelle Cliff's
Ambivalent Homecomings 4: Caryl Phillips's Transatlantic Homes Part II:
Uprooting, Migrancy, Regrounding: Re-Writing Exile 5: Routes, Roots, and
Imaginary Nations: Jamaica Kincaid's Restless Gardens and Michelle Cliff's
Dangerous Crossings 6: Homines Sacri: The Discourse of Refugees in Edwidge
Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying and Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore Part
III: Paradise Islands, Wild Nature, and the Contemporary Tourist Gaze:
Re/locating the Caribbean 7: Edwidge Danticat's Landscapes of Memory 8: In
the Land of Look Behind: Rebellion and Resistance in Michelle Cliff 9:
Abject Bodies, Dis/eased Islands: Jamaica Kincaid's Elegiac Song to Antigua
10: Back to the Roots: Caryl Phillips's Caribbean Land(Sea)scapes Epilogue:
Caribbean Diasporic Voices in a Post-9/11 America