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Author Paquet, Sandra Pouchet.

Title Caribbean autobiography : cultural identity and self-representation / Sandra Pouchet Paquet.

Publication Info. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2002]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  920.072 P219C    Check Shelf
Description xii, 345 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Wisconsin studies in autobiography
Wisconsin studies in autobiography.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-320) and index.
Contents Testing and testifying: the Hart sisters -- The heartbeat of a West Indian slave: The history of Mary Prince -- The enigma of arrival: Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole -- "The traveling Ulysses scene": Claude McKay's A long way from home and My green hills of Jamaica -- Blurred genres, blended voices: George Lamming's In the castle of my skin -- Autobiographical frameworks and linked discourses: George Lamming's The pleasures of exile and C.L.R. James's Beyond a boundary -- Poetic autobiography: Derek Walcott's Another life -- Fragments of epic memory: V.S. Naipaul's Finding the center and A way in the world -- Maternal bonds: My mother's daughter: the autobiography of Anna Mahase., snr., 1899-1978 -- Colonist and Creole: Yseult Bridges's Child of the tropics and Jean Rhys's Smile please -- Beyond consolation: Kamau Brathwaite's The Zea Mexican diary -- Death and sexuality: Jamaica Kincaid's My brother.
Subject Autobiography.
Caribbean Area -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Authors, Caribbean -- Biography -- History and criticism.
ISBN 0299176908 alkaline paper
0299176940 paper alkaline paper
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