Alien-Nation and Repatriation - Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Paperback)

Alien-Nation and Repatriation examines the emergence and transformations in representations of national identity in Anglophone Caribbean literary traditions. Beginning with the short fiction of C. L. R. James, Alfred Mendes, and Albert Gomes, this study examines the extent to which gender, migration, and female sexuality frame the earliest representations of Caribbean identity in literature by West Indian authors. The study develops chronologically to examine the works of George Lamming, Paule Marshall, Erna Brodber, M. Nourbese Philip, and Elizabeth Nunez. Alien-Nation and Repatriation emphasizes the processes of alienation that marginalize women from discourses of citizenship and belonging, both of which are integral aspects of nationalist literature. This text also argues that for Caribbean women writers engaged in discourses on citizenship, 'return' is not focused on reclaiming the nation-state. Instead Saunders argues that closer examinations of discourses on Caribbean identity reveal the ways in which the female body has been disciplined, through form and content, into silence in colonial and post-colonial Caribbean literary traditions.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Caribbean Studies
Release date:	December 2007
First published:	November 2007
Authors:	Patricia Joan Saunders
Dimensions:	229 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	212
ISBN-13:	978-0-7391-1470-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
LSN:	0-7391-1470-0
Barcode:	9780739114704

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