Caribbean transactions : West Indian culture in literature / Renu Juneja. PRINT

By:

Renu Juneja

Series: Warwick University Caribbean studies | Warwick University Caribbean studiesPublication details: London : Macmillan Caribbean ; New York : Macmillan Education, 1996.Description: xi, 240 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0333625528
9780333625521

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Caribbean transactions.DDC classification:

810.9 WI Jun

Available additional physical forms:

Also issued online.

Summary: "Caribbean Transactions analyzes how Caribbean literature traces the struggle for cultural identity of the slaves' descendants, and indeed of all those whose ancestors, for whatever reason, were transplanted into an alien and often hostile culture at the bottom of the social strata." "The book charts the movement away from a sense of unbelonging to the forging of an autonomous indigenous culture. It reveals how the writers of Caribbean literature, through the stories they invent, help sustain the collective process by which the people build this distinctively Caribbean culture."--Jacket.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Rare Books Floor	810.9 WI Jun (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1000000031886

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-234) and index.

"Caribbean Transactions analyzes how Caribbean literature traces the struggle for cultural identity of the slaves' descendants, and indeed of all those whose ancestors, for whatever reason, were transplanted into an alien and often hostile culture at the bottom of the social strata." "The book charts the movement away from a sense of unbelonging to the forging of an autonomous indigenous culture. It reveals how the writers of Caribbean literature, through the stories they invent, help sustain the collective process by which the people build this distinctively Caribbean culture."--Jacket.

Also issued online.

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