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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Saunders, Patricia Joan, 1968- Alien-nation and repatriation. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2007 (OCoLC)608408862 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Patricia Joan Saunders |
ISBN: | 9780739114698 0739114697 9780739114704 0739114700 |
OCLC Number: | 156845848 |
Description: | xv, 181 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction : imagining the impossible -- The Trinidad renaissance : building a nation, building a self -- The pleasures/privileges of exile : re/covering race and sexuality in The Pleasures of Exile and Water with Berries -- Gender and genre : the logic of language and the logistics of identity -- Routes and roots : re(in)scribing the meaning of home -- Boundaries, borders, and the unhoused : re-routing Black identity in North America -- Conclusion : mapping meaning and identity. |
Series Title: | Caribbean studies (Lanham, Md.) |
Responsibility: | Patricia Joan Saunders. |
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Saunders' contention that 'black female subjects function as nationalism's "nearly selved" other' is persuasively argued in analyses of Trinidad's literary scene of the 1920s, George Lamming's narratives of the nation, and, crucially, Caribbean women writers' prophetic and profound counter-narratives of the Caribbean and post-Katrina North America. -- Faith Smith, Brandeis University Patricia Saunders' work on issues of sexuality in Caribbean popular culture has already established her as an exceptional scholar in the burgeoning field of Caribbean cultural studies. Her incisive analyses of popular culture sensibilities lend a fresh perspective on the Caribbean's literary canon in this promising new book. -- Belinda Edmondson, Rutgers University, Newark Read more...

