Caribbean Autobiography
by PaquetThe dozen chapters of this volume may be read independently; several are revised versions of articles published in the 1990s. Among the writers and writings analyzed for the temper of their autobiographical voice are V. S. Naipaul, Jamaica Kincaid, Kamau Brathwaite, Yseult Bridges, Jean Rhys, Claude McKay, and George Lamming, and the slave narrative of Mary Prince.… See more details below
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The dozen chapters of this volume may be read independently; several are revised versions of articles published in the 1990s. Among the writers and writings analyzed for the temper of their autobiographical voice are V. S. Naipaul, Jamaica Kincaid, Kamau Brathwaite, Yseult Bridges, Jean Rhys, Claude McKay, and George Lamming, and the slave narrative of Mary Prince. The overarching themes in Paquet's analysis include gender, language, class, and colonialism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 2900299176944
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication date:
- 01/28/2002
- Edition description:
- NE
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 3 | |
| Pt. 1 | Gender, Voice, ad Self-Representation | 11 |
| 1 | Testing and Testifying: The Hart Sisters | 21 |
| 2 | The Heartbeat of a West Indian Slave: The History of Mary Prince | 28 |
| 3 | The Enigma of Arrival: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole | 51 |
| Pt. 2 | The Estranging Sea | 73 |
| 4 | "The Traveling Ulysses Scene": Claude McKay's A Long Way from Home and My Green Hills of Jamaica | 87 |
| 5 | Blurred Genres, Blended Voices: George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin | 111 |
| 6 | Autobiographical Frameworks and Linked Discourses: George Lamming's The Pleasures of Exile and C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary | 132 |
| 7 | Poetic Autobiography; Derek Walcott's Another Life | 154 |
| Pt. 3 | Birthrights and Legacies | 175 |
| 8 | Fragments of Epic Memory: V. S. Naipaul's Finding the Center and A Way in the World | 183 |
| 9 | Maternal Bonds: My Mother's Daughter: The Autobiography of Anna Mahase., Snr., 1899-1978 | 205 |
| 10 | Colonist and Creole: Yseult Bridges's Child of the Tropics and Jean Rhys's Smile Please | 214 |
| Pt. 4 | Autobiography, Elegy, and Gender Identification | 227 |
| 11 | Beyond Consolation: Kamau Brathwaite's The Zea Mexican Diary | 233 |
| 12 | Death and Sexuality: Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother | 243 |
| Conclusion | 257 | |
| Notes | 265 | |
| Bibliography | 304 | |
| Index | 321 |
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