From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender

by Curdella Forbes

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9766401713
• ISBN13: 9789766401719
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"