Caribbean Autobiography

by Sandra Pouchet Paquet

Book Overview

Despite the range and abundance of autobiographical writing from the Anglophone Caribbean, this book is the first to explore this literature fully. It covers works from the colonial era up to present-day AIDS memoirs and assesses the links between more familiar works by George Lamming, C. L. R. James, Derek Walcott, V. S. Naipaul, and Jamaica Kincaid and less frequently cited works by the Hart sisters, Mary Prince, Mary Seacole, Claude McKay, Yseult...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299176940
• ISBN13: 9780299176945
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"