Curdella Forbes

Broschiertes Buch

From Nation to Diaspora

Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender

Beschreibung

This book is a discussion of gender in West Indian culture. It undertakes the discussion through a revisionary reading of gender in selected novels written by Samuel Selvon and George Lamming from the 1950s to the 1970s. This was a period in which nationalism in the West Indies (anglophone Caribbean) reached its highest level of consolidation.

Autor

Curdella Forbes was up to recently Senior Lecturer, Department of Literatures in English, University of the West Indies, Jamaica. She is currently Associate Professor of Caribbean Literature, Howard University. She is the author of Flying with Icarus and Other Stories and Songs of Silence and has published scholarly articles on Shakespeare, Caribbean literary theory and Caribbean literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of the West Indies Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9789766401719
• ISBN-10: 9766401713
• Artikelnr.: 21731882