Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside

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The work Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside

Statement of responsibility

by Joanna Johnson

Creator

• Johnson, Joanna

Author

• Johnson, Joanna

Author

• Johnson, Joanna

Subject

• British literature
• Latin American literature
• Latin American literature
• Literature, Modern
• Literature, Modern -- 20th century
• 1900-1999
• British literature

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Geocriticism and spatial literary studies

Cataloging source

LEAUB

Dewey number

800.098

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BjSET-CjoOo

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PN843-PN846

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies