Shifting homelands, travelling identities : writers of the Caribbean diaspora / edited by Jasbir Jain & Supriya Agarwal.

Shaping the environment : sugar plantation or life after / Cyril Dabydeen -- Teaching West Indian literature in Britain / David Dabydeen -- Inventions of auto-narratives in Braithwaite and Phillips / Jasbir Jain -- Images of the Caribbean in the early works of Jean Rhys / Manveen Brar -- Between two cultures : a look at Seepersad Naipaul's stories / Purabi Panwar -- The Indo-Caribbean short story : negotiations between social identity and self-concept / Sudha Rai -- The politics of historical reconstruction : a study of V.S. Naipaul's The loss of El Dorado and A way in the world / Vishnupriya Sengupta -- Negotiating V.S. Naipaul / Cyril Dabydeen -- Metaphors of disintegration in Shiva Naipaul's The chip chip gatherers / Madhuri Chatterjee -- Rites of passage : George Lamming's In the castle of my skin / Nidhi Singh -- Race of races in Sam Selvon's Those who eat the cascadura / M. Rosary Royar -- Conflict and resolution : Selvon's The plains of Caroni / Supriya Agarwal -- Creating an independent reality : Sam Selvon's An island is a world / Charu Mathur -- Diverse cultural icons and codes in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow / Asma Shamail -- Negotiating interstitial spaces : Itwaru's Shanti and The unreturning / Mini Nanda -- Cultural transformation in diaspora : Arnold Harrichand Itwaru's Shanti / Indira Babbellapati -- Re-locating alter(native) voices of silence in Lakshmi Persaud's Raise the lanterns high / Jayita Sengupta -- 'I cannot always be a little you' : daughter-mother (country) relationship in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John / Punam Gupta -- Identity, subjectivity and voice : a reading of Austin Clarke's The polished hoe / C. Vijayshree -- An interview with Ramabai Espinet / Elaine Savory.

Includes bibliographical references.

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