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001 2015040383
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008 151207s2016 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015040383
020 $a9781138998773 (alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPR9205.O5$bP75 2016
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100 1 $aPulitano, Elvira,$d1970-$eauthor.
245 10 $aTransnational narratives from the Caribbean :$bdiasporic literature and the human experience /$cby Elvira Pulitano.
263 $a1603
264 1 $aNew York ;$aLondon :$bRoutledge,$c2016.
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aRoutledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;$v63
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Caribbean Diasporas and Narrated Lives -- Diasporic Homelands. When Home Hurts: Edwidge Danticat's Journeys of Healing -- Absent Fathers and Crumbling Origins: Jamaica Kincaid and the (Im)possibility of Home -- "I and Jamaica is Who I am": Michelle Cliff's Ambivalent Homecomings -- Caryl Phillips's Transatlantic Homes -- Uprooting, Migrancy, Regrounding: Re-Writing Exile. Routes, Roots, and Imaginary Nations: Jamaica Kincaid's Restless Gardens and Michelle Cliff's Dangerous Crossings -- Homines Sacri: The Discourse of Refugees in Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying and Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore -- Paradise Islands, Wild Nature, and the Contemporary Tourist Gaze: Re/locating the Caribbean. Edwidge Danticat's Landscapes of Memory -- In the Land of Look Behind: Rebellion and Resistance in Michelle Cliff -- Abject Bodies, Dis/eased Islands: Jamaica Kincaid's Elegiac Song to Antigua -- Back to the Roots: Caryl Phillips' Caribbean Land(Sea)scapes -- Epilogue: Caribbean Diasporic Voices in a Post-9/11 America.
650 0 $aCaribbean literature (English)$xBlack authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAfrican diaspora in literature.
650 0 $aTransnationalism in literature.
650 0 $aRace in literature.
650 0 $aExiles in literature.
651 0 $aCaribbean Area$xIn literature.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aPulitano, Elvira, 1970- author.$tTransnational narratives from the Caribbean$dNew York ; London : Routledge, 2016$z9781315658513$w(DLC) 2015048751