In Praise of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women's Writing

by Isabel Hoving

Book Overview

Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an accessible and concrete appraisal of current developments in postcolonial criticism. Detailed readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts from the late 1980s and 1990s lead to sharp insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the field: place, voice, and silence.

The discussion of these issues allows us to trace current...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804729484
• ISBN13: 9780804729482
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"