Changing currents : transnational Caribbean literary and cultural criticism / edited by Emily Allen Williams, Melvin B. Rahming.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Emily Allen.

Rahming, Melvin B., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature.

Civilization.

Caribbean Area--Civilization--20th century.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

x, 350 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [2006]

Contents:

Women worth their salt / Renu Juneja

Sounds of silence: releasing lesbianism's captive song from the muted cadences of no telephone to heaven / Caroline A. Brown

Dark and dangerous / Keja Valens

A rural feminine perspective: a comparative reading of two novels by Simone Schwarz-Bart and Lauretta Ngcobo / Frances Santiago

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's Sab: a Cuban novel in a Latin American context / Thomas Ward

Maryse Condé's Windward Heights and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights: colonial reality in Victorian guise / Bill Clemente and Linda Clemente

Cannibalizing the Victorians: Maryse Condé's narrative structure / Carine M. Mardorossian

Jamaican Creole: nuff respec' / Consuella Bennett

Homecomings without home: reconquering the Creole identity through the conquest of discursive space / Paola Boi

Race, sex, and historical tension in the search for the transcendental West Indian subject / Shona Jackson

All our yesterdays: utopianism, holocausts, and history in Wilson Harris' Jonestown / Keith Mitchell

Victor Hernández Cruz: between between anthology and criticism / Francisco Cabanillas

Maryse Condé's narrative spectrum / Sarah Barbour

The unrocked cradle in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and Maryse Condé's La migration des coeurs / Lillian Corti

Towards a critical theory of spirit: the insistent demands of Erna Brodber's Myal / Melvin B. Rahming.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-328) and index.

ISBN:

1592214134

1592214142

OCLC:

62381297