Writers of the Caribbean Diaspora

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Edited by Jasbir Jain and Supriya Agarwal

Writers of the Caribbean Diaspora: Shifting Homelands, Travelling Identities is a multi-faceted collection of essays that unfolds the charge of the Caribbean writer to represent a region with a complicated history and an even more complex future. It encompasses the work of Caribbean writers living and writing abroad, rather than at home and thus, evaluates, critiques and reflects on Caribbean identity and reality from the perspectives of exiled authors. Questions of race, nation-building and postcolonial separation/connection, the Caribbean landscape, and navigating the minefield of culture are thoroughly examined.

Contents

1. Shaping the Environment: Sugar Plantation or Life After

Cyril Dabydeen

2. Teaching West Indian Literature in Britain

David Dabydeen

3. Inventions of Auto-Narratives in Braithwaite  and Phillips

Jasbir Jain

4. Images of the Caribbean in the Early Works of Jean Rhys

Manveen Brar

5. Between Two Cultures: A Look at Seepersad Naipaul’s Stories

Purabi Panwar

6. The Indo-Caribbean Short Story: Negotiations between Social Identity and Self-concept

Sudha Rai

7. The Politics of Historical Reconstruction: A Study of V.S. Naipaul’s The Loss of El Dorado and A Way in the World

Vishnupriya Sengupta

8. Negotiating V.S. Naipaul

Cyril Dabydeen

9. Metaphors of Disintegration in Shiva Naipaul’s:The Chip Chip Gatherers

Madhuri Chatterjee

10. Rites of Passage: George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin

Nidhi Singh

11.  Race of Races in Sam Selvon’s Those Who Eat the Cascadura

M. Rosary Royar

12. Conflict and Resolution: Selvon’s The Plains of Caroni

Supriya Agarwal

13. Creating an Independent Reality: Sam Selvon’s An Island Is a World

Charu Mathur

14.  Diverse Cultural Icons and Codes in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow

Asma Shamail

15.  Negotiating Interstitial Spaces: Itwaru’s Shanti and The Unreturning

Mini Nanda

16. Cultural Transformation in Diaspora: Arnold   Harrichand Itwaru’s Shanti

Indira Babbellapati

17.  Re-locating Alter(native) Voices of Silence in Lakshmi Persaud’s Raise the Lanterns High

Jayita Sengupta

18. ‘I Cannot Always Be a Little You’: Daughter-Mother (Country) Relationship in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John

Punam Gupta

19.  Identity, Subjectivity and Voice: A Reading of Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe

C. Vijayshree

20.  An Interview with Ramabai Espinet


Elaine Savory

Jasbir Jain is Professor Emeritus Fellow at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. A Translator, editor, and writer, she has authored several books including Beyond Postcolonialism: Dreams and Realities of a NationGendered Realities, Human Spaces: The Novels of Shashi Deshpande (2003).
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Supriya Agarwal is Head of the Department of English, Khandelwal P.G. Girls College, Jaipur. She is co-editor of Gender and Narrative and Writer of the Caribbean Diaspora, and has several published articles.

Price: US$19.99

ISBN: 978-976-637-366-5

Extent: Size 5 ½”x 8 ½”, 292 Pages

Binding: Paperback