Caribbean Autobiography: Cultural Identity and Self-Representation (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) - Softcover

Paquet, Sandra Pouchet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299176940 ISBN 13: 9780299176945

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002

Synopsis

Despite the range and abundance of autobiographical writing from the Anglophone Caribbean, this book is the first to explore this literature fully. It covers works from the colonial era up to present-day AIDS memoirs and assesses the links between more familiar works by George Lamming, C. L. R. James, Derek Walcott, V. S. Naipaul, and Jamaica Kincaid and less frequently cited works by the Hart sisters, Mary Prince, Mary Seacole, Claude McKay, Yseult Bridges, Jean Rhys, Anna Mahase, and Kamau Brathwaite.
    Sandra Pouchet Paquet charts the intersection of multiple, contradictory viewpoints of the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean, differing concepts of community and levels of social integration, and a persistent pattern of both resistance and accommodation within island states that were largely shaped by British colonial practice from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-twentieth century. The texts examined here reflect the entire range of autobiographical practice, including the slave narrative and testimonial, written and oral narratives, spiritual autobiographies, fiction, serial autobiography, verse, diaries and journals, elegy, and parody.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography William L. Andrews, Series Editor

About the Author:

Sandra Pouchet Paquet is professor of English at the University of Miami and is the author of The Novels of George Lamming. She has been guest editor of the journals Callaloo and West Indian Literature. She was born in Trinidad.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0299176940
• ISBN 13: 9780299176945
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368