Emigration and Caribbean Literature

by Malachi McIntosh

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137555892
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	09/29/2015
Series:	New Caribbean Studies
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Malachi McIntosh is a Lecturer of English at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

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, Césaire, Glissant, Capécia
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

Editorial Reviews

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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