Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean: Diasporic Literature and the Human Experience

by Elvira Pulitano

This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations. Focusing on the Caribbean double-diaspora, Pulitano offers a close-reading of a range of popular works by four well-known writers currently living in the United States: Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036787525X
• ISBN13: 9780367875251
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"