Washed by the Gulf Stream: The Historic and Geographic Relation of Irish and Caribbean Literature

by Maria McGarrity

This is an historically comparative postcolonial study asserting the dialogic relation between Irish and Caribbean narrative form, relating Irish Big House and Caribbean Plantation novels, the "errantry" of Joyce's and Walcott's epic geographies, and the transition from traditional bildungsroman modes of exile to contemporary memoirs of 'diseased' emigration. The book focuses on the demise of empire and the role of geography in creating an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611490936
• ISBN13: 9781611490930
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 196 Pages