Talking words : new essays on the work of David Dabydeen / edited by Lynne Macedo.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Macedo, Lynne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Dabydeen, David--Criticism and interpretation.
• Dabydeen, David.
• Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xv, 152 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2011.

Summary:

Eleven international academics and independent scholars contribute ten essays examining the poetry and novels of Caribbean/Black British author and academic David Dabydeen (literary studies, U. of Warwick). The collection is published to coincide with that of Pak's Britannica: Articles by and Interviews with David Dabydeen (U. of the West Indies Press, 2011). Several thematic chapters examine issues such as hybridity and cultural identity, the notion of "Indianness," and connections between Dabydeen's poetry and fiction. Other chapters provide analyses of specific novels, including The Intended, Disappearance, A Harlot's Progress, Our Lady of Demerara, and Molly and the Muslim Stick. No subject index has been provided. Distributed by Longleaf Services, Inc. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

• pt. 1. Poetic reappraisals. Cultural hybridity in David Dabydeen's poetry / Monica Manolachi ; Living beadless in a foreign land: David Dabydeen's poetry of disappearance / Anjali Nerlekar ; Fresh names: audience, authenticity and the African imaginary in Turner and A harlot's progress / Nicole Matos
• p. 2. (Re)reading the novels. Translating The intended / Jenny De Salvo ; Intertextuality and the "spatialization" of reading: Conradian journeys in Dabydeen's Disappearance / Russell West-Pavlov ; David Dabydeen's A harlot's progress: re-presenting the slave narrative genre / Abigail Ward ; "To say profitably": Dabydeen's exoticist aesthetic / Erik Falk ; Re-scripting genealogies, or, On the purpose of (re)writing in David Dabydeen's Our Lady of Demerara / Lilian Sikorska ; "Everything is illuminated": trauma, literary alchemy and transfiguration in David Dabydeen's Molly and the Muslim stick / Juta Schamp ; The magic of your making: magic and realism in David Dabydeen's recent fiction / Michael Mitchell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

• 9789766402570
• 9766402574

OCLC:

756577435