Beschreibung:
This bold study traces the processes by which a 'history' and canon of Caribbean literature and criticism have been constructed. It offers a supplement to that history by presenting new writers, texts and critical moments that help to reconfigure the Caribbean tradition.
Acknowledgements Introduction Difficult subjects: Caribbean writing before the boom Global villages and watery graves: recrossing the Black Atlantic Double Agents: gender, ethnicity and the absent woman Sexing the Subject: writing and the politics of sexual identity Works Cited