Caribbean autobiography : cultural identity and self-representation / Sandra Pouchet Paquet.

By:

Paquet, Sandra Pouchet [author.]

Series: Wisconsin studies in autobiography | Wisconsin studies in autobiographyPublication details: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.Description: xii, 345 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0299176908
9780299176907
0299176940
9780299176945

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Additional physical formats: Caribbean autobiography.DDC classification:

920.0729 21

LOC classification:

CT25 .P36 2002

Other classification:

HQ 7070
972.9

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Contents:

Testing and testifying: the Hart sisters -- The heartbeat of a West Indian slave: The history of Mary Prince -- The enigma of arrival: Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole -- "The traveling Ulysses scene": Claude McKay's A long way from home and My green hills of Jamaica -- Blurred genres, blended voices: George Lamming's In the castle of my skin -- Autobiographical frameworks and linked discourses: George Lamming's The pleasures of exile and C.L.R. James's Beyond a boundary -- Poetic autobiography: Derek Walcott's Another life -- Fragments of epic memory: V.S. Naipaul's Finding the center and A way in the world -- Maternal bonds: My mother's daughter: the autobiography of Anna Mahase., snr., 1899-1978 -- Colonist and Creole: Yseult Bridges's Child of the tropics and Jean Rhys's Smile please -- Beyond consolation: Kamau Brathwaite's The Zea Mexican diary -- Death and sexuality: Jamaica Kincaid's My brother.

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