Caribbean Autobiography
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Caribbean Autobiography
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Author : Sandra Pouchet Paquet
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2002-07-22
Caribbean Autobiography written by Sandra Pouchet Paquet and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 Bridges, Jean Rhys, Anna Mahase, and Kamau Brathwaite. Sandra Pouchet Paquet charts the intersection of multiple, contradictory viewpoints of the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean, differing concepts of community and levels of social integration, and a persistent pattern of both resistance and accommodation within island states that were largely shaped by British colonial practice from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-twentieth century. The texts examined here reflect the entire range of autobiographical practice, including the slave narrative and testimonial, written and oral narratives, spiritual autobiographies, fiction, serial autobiography, verse, diaries and journals, elegy, and parody.
Childhood Autobiography And The Francophone Caribbean
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Author : Louise Hardwick
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-04
Childhood Autobiography And The Francophone Caribbean written by Louise Hardwick and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores a major modern turn in Francophone Caribbean literature towards récits d’enfance (narratives of childhood) and asks why this occurred post-1990.
My Life As Sisyphus
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Author : Catharina van Leeuwen
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2017-04-06
My Life As Sisyphus written by Catharina van Leeuwen and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Armed with a graduate degree in Biological Sciences, the author leaves for the Caribbean to join her husband who has been recruited to the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. Excited at the prospect of living in this vibrant culture, her enthusiasm to make a contribution is challenged as she encounters the difficulties facing a society in transition. Once they begin a family the challenges increase and she finds herself gradually isolated. Writing about her experiences and documenting the obstacles faced raising her children provide new insights into the subtleties of a multi-racial society.
Phyllis Shand Allfrey
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Author : Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 1996
Phyllis Shand Allfrey written by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Phyllis Shand Allfrey is the first biography of one of the Caribbean's most intriguing writers and politicians. Allfrey (1908-1986) is best known as the author of The Orchid House, a fictionalized account of her early life that was turned into a highly acclaimed film for British television. Born to a prominent family of formerly wealthy sugar planters in Dominica, Allfrey followed an unexpected path: a rising novelist (who is often paired with Jean Rhys in critical discussion) and Fabian socialist in England and the United States, she returned to Dominica to organize the peasantry and estate workers into the island's first political party. Ostracized by the white elite into which she was born, she led the Dominica Labour party to power and became the West Indian Federation's only woman (and only white) minister, only to find herself expelled from the party when the rise of black nationalism made it expedient. The biography recreates Allfrey's life as it unfolds against the background of twentieth-century Caribbean political and literary history, from the decline of the planter class through the rise of party politics and the efforts to join the anglophone West Indies into a federation, to the troubled sixties and seventies, decades marked by racial violence and the emergence of the former British territories from colonial control. This volume includes five autobiographical stories that have long been out of print.
Dreams Of Archives Unfolded
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Author : Jocelyn Fenton Stitt
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-18
Dreams Of Archives Unfolded written by Jocelyn Fenton Stitt and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Introduction: Archival dreams and Caribbean life writing -- 'Autobiography in a graveyard' : doors of no return and revolutionary failures -- Speculative autobiography : ghosts and feminist fugitivity -- Repicturing the picturesque : genealogical desire, archives, and descendant community autobiography -- Ashes to ashes, dust to dust : Indo-Caribbean archival impossibility -- "Put my mom in there" : Memorialization as Caribbean counter-archive -- Coda: Untelling history.
The Autobiography Of Paras P
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Author : Kevin Baldeosingh
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann International Incorporated
Release Date : 1996
The Autobiography Of Paras P written by Kevin Baldeosingh and has been published by Heinemann International Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Fiction categories.
Humour. Paras a Trinidadian of Asian descent discovers his true calling is a quixotic quest for proper behaviour. A loving, satiric commentary on all facets of Caribbean life. PW Starred review.
My Early Life On St Kitts And Nevis
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Author : Clement Bouncin Williams
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2012-08-31
My Early Life On St Kitts And Nevis written by Clement Bouncin Williams and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
CLEMENT BOUNCIN WILLIAMS - B.Sc (UWI), M.Sc (Reading Univ.-UK) DOB: AUGUST 13, 1948 Status: MARRIED Spouse: Cynthia V. Williams TWO(2) Children: Clement Jomo Jihan Adika Career Highlights ? High School Teacher: Mathematics and Natural Sciences ? Curriculum Development Officer and National Coordinator High School Sciences ? Caribbean Examination Council Examiner (Chemistry) ? Taxi and Tour Operator ? Actor, Artistic Director and Producer Community Theatre Group ? Author and Playwright I loved it all! Especially the portion about the entrepreneurial prowess of the authors mother!!!! AMAZING!!!Being first generation Kitty-Nevy I don't have the privilege of the oratory exchange between one generation and another about life on St. Kitts and Nevis in years gone by. This book provides me with that oratory exchange; ranging from food and beverage preparations to reasons for the creation of communities which I pass often on my current day's journey to aspects of our Health, Education, Economic and Political systems. Thus presenting great evidence of the tremendous strides our Federation has made over the decades. Whether from the Federation or the wider Caribbean this book will cause some to reminisce, others to be educated and for all to take pride in the wisdom of our people! Unoma Allen, M.Sc. Lecturer CFB College, St. Kitts.
The Autobiography Of My Mother
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Author : Jamaica Kincaid
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2022-07-07
The Autobiography Of My Mother written by Jamaica Kincaid and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-07 with Fiction categories.
Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books Xuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy years of her life, and so she must begin with her birth, and the accompanying death of her mother. Xuela’s vivid, visceral recollections of the lonely, unsettled life that follows the trauma of her arrival include that of her distant father, who sends her away to another household at the earliest opportunity; of her passion for the stevedore Roland, who fulfils her sexually but not intellectually; and of her husband, who provides her with status and a wealthy lifestyle but whom she is incapable of loving. Poetic and disturbing, The Autobiography of My Mother is one of Kincaid’s most powerful statements of Afro-Caribbean women’s struggle for identity and independence, against a hostile backdrop of sexism and colonialism. Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.
Beyond The Islands
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Author : James Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2006
Beyond The Islands written by James Mitchell and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Bequia Island (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) categories.
Sir James Mitchell Autobiography provides an intriguing insight into Sir James Mitchells long and eventful career at the forefront of Caribbean politics. During the 35 years that he was a Member of Parliament of the Grenadines, at the time of retirement Sir James had been the longest serving Prime Minister in the Caribbean, having spent 18 years as the head of government, and the only one to have served from Colonialism through Statehood and Independence. In addition to this, he was the only leader who founded a political party and retired from office after winning four consecutive general elections.
Auto Biography Across The Americas
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Author : Ricia A. Chansky
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-08-05
Auto Biography Across The Americas written by Ricia A. Chansky and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This collection proposes that the impact of the historic or contemporary movement of peoples to, in, and from the Americas—whether chosen or forced—motivates the ways in which identities are constructed in this contested space. Such movement results in a cyclical quest to belong, and to understand belonging, that reverberates through narratives of the Americas. The volume brings together essays written from diverse national, cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary perspectives to trace these transnational motifs in life writing across the Americas. Drawing on international scholars from the seemingly disparate regions of the Americas—North America, the Caribbean, and Latin America—this book extends critical theories of life writing beyond limiting national boundaries. The scholarship included approaches narrative inquiry from the fields of literature, linguistics, history, art history, sociology, anthropology, political science, pedagogy, gender studies, critical race studies, and indigenous studies. As a whole, this volume advances discourse in auto/biography studies, life writing, and identity studies by locating transnational themes in narratives of the Americas and placing them in international and interdisciplinary conversations.