Home, identity, and mobility in contemporary diasporic fiction

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Nyman,Jopi (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2009
    WorldCat URL:
    http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9789042026902
    Published:
    Amsterdam: Rodopi
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    ISBN:
    9042026901; 9789042026902
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, 20th century, Fiction, 21st century, Black Britons, History and criticism, Home in literature, and Emigration and immigration
    Notes:
    248 p., Case studies dealing with a variety of black British and ethnic American writers, Home, identity, and mobility in contemporary diasporic fiction shows how new identities and homes are constructed in the migrants' new homelands. Includes chapter on Black British perspectives. From black Britain to the Caribbean : the return of the (im)migrant in Caryl Phillips's A state of independence.

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