Making Homes in the West/Indies: Constructions of Subjectivity in the Writings of Michelle Cliff and Jamaica Kincaid

by Antonia Macdonald-Smythe

Overview

This study focuses on the ways in which two of the most prominent Caribbean women writers residing in the United States, Michelle Cliff and Jamaica Kincaid, have made themselves at home within Caribbean poetics, even as their migration to the United States affords them participation and acceptance within its literary space.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138980228
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/13/2016
Series:	Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

William E. Cain English Wellesley College

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Talking Back to the Bildungsroman; Chapter 3 Negotiating Exile; Chapter 4 Slippery Tongues; Chapter 5 W/righting History; Chapter 6 Kwik? Kwak!;