Nationalism and identity: culture and the imagination in a Caribbean diaspora

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Harney,Stefano (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1996
    WorldCat URL:
    http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9781856493758
    Published:
    Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    ISBN:
    1856493768;185649375X;9781856493758;
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, Blacks, Literature, Trinidad and Tobago, Identity (self awareness), History and criticism (genre, time periods, etc.), Intellectual life, and NATIONALISM
    Notes:
    216 p, Contents: 1. Beyond Nationalism: Literary Nation-building in the Work of Earl Lovelace and Michael Anthony -- 2. Men Go Have Respect For All O' We: Valerie Belgrave's Invention of Trinidad -- 3. Willi Chen and Carnival Nationalism in Trinidad -- 4. Samuel Selvon and the Chronopolitics of a Diasporic Nationalism -- 5. Neil Bissoondath and Migrant Liberation from the Nation -- 6. V.S. Naipaul and the Pitfalls of Nationalism -- 7. C.L.R. James and Egalitarian Nationalism in the Caribbean -- Conclusion: Mud Mas: Playing Identity.

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