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Description

1. 158 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcolonial Studies is a pioneer in advancing the difficult but necessary argument of situating and centering Caribbean literature and criticism at the foundation of multicultural and postcolonial studies through an interdisciplinary, international, and intercultural manner, made possible by the author's unique multicultural and transnational interest and experience. Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcoloniai Studies argues that Caribbean criticism - shaped by the region's socio-economic, political, and historical phenomenahas a more complex and significant marriage with postcolonial and multicultural studies than acknowledged by the international community. Caribbean scholars should not only seek to legitimize and publicize the marriage and its depth, but also expand the borders of its scholarship and protest its "disneyfication" and prostitution."--BOOK JACKET.

Series statement

1. Caribbean studies, 1098-4186 ; v. 11

Uniform title

1. Caribbean studies (Peter Lang Publishing) ; v. 11.

Subject

1. 2000-2099
2. 2000-2010
3. Caribbean literature > 21st century > History and criticism
4. 17.82 literary criticism
5. Literatura caribeña > S.XX > Historia y crítica
6. Caribbean literature
7. Postkoloniale Literatur
8. Literature
9. Literary criticism
10. Post-colonialism
11. Kulturwissenschaften
12. Postkoloniale Literatur
13. Caribbean literature (English) > History and criticism
14. Postcolonialism > Theory
15. Multiculturalism (Cultural theory)
16. Postkoloniale Literatur > Karibik
17. Karibik
18. Caribbean region
19. Karibik
20. Karibik > Postkoloniale Literatur

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. A critical overview of Caribbean literature -- Synonymy of multiculturalism and postcolonialism through globalization -- Centrality of Caribbean literature depicting postcolonial and multicultural preoccupations. Finding a place to call home in the mother country ; The significance of the 'tenement yard' in Caribbean nationalism as reflected in Caribbean literature -- Multicultural and postcolonial interpretations of Caribbean literature and its environment -- Colonialism and capitalism : Biblical allusion of the corrupting force of money in selected Caribbean literature. Color complication and confrontation in Caribbean culture as depicted in Trevor Rhone's Old story time -- Disorder and mimicry through colonial apparatuses in V.S. Naipaul's The mimic men -- Colonial alienation producing madness in Jean Rhys' Wild Sargasso Sea.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-153) and index.