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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Johnson, Joanna
Titre(s) : Topographies of Caribbean writing, race, and the British countryside [Texte imprimé] / Joanna Johnson
Publication : Cham (Suisse) : Palgrave Macmillan, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-190 p.) ; 22 cm
Collection : Geocriticism and spatial literary studies
Lien à la collection : Geocriticism and spatial literary studies
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
How do Caribbean writers see the British countryside? Do they feel included, ignored,
marginalised? In Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside,
Joanna Johnson shows how writers like Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Grace
Nichols, Andrea Levy, and Caryl Phillips have very different and unexpected responses
to this rural space. Johnson demonstrates how Caribbean writing shows greater complexity
and wider significance than accounts and understandings of the British countryside
have traditionally admitted; at the same time, close examination of these works illustrates
that complexity and ambiguity remain an essential part of these authors' relationships
with the British countrysides of their colonial or postcolonial imaginations. This
study examines accepted norms and raises questions about urgent issues of belonging,
Britishness, and Commonwealth identity
Sujet(s) : Paysage -- Dans la littérature
Littérature anglaise -- Auteurs d'origine antillaise -- Thèmes, motifs
Littérature antillaise -- Influence
Grande-Bretagne -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783030041342. - ISBN 3030041344 (rel.). - ISBN 9783030041335 (erroné). - ISBN
3030041336 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb457450352
Notice n° :
FRBNF45745035
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Intro; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction:
Constructing the Countryside; Historical Context of Caribbean Migration to Britain;
Countryside Connections; Daffodils and Empire; Chapter 2 Remembrance Rocks; Chapter
3 Befitting the Landscape; Chapter 4 Topography Rules; Chapter 5 Reframing the Landscape;
Chapter 6 Redefinitions: Race and Rurality; Chapter 7 Conclusion: Imaginative Geographies;
The British Countryside Today: Singing with Different Voices; References; Index
