عنوان

Topographies of Caribbean writing, race, and the British countryside /

(Number (ISBN

3030041344

(Number (ISBN

9783030041342

Erroneous ISBN

3030041336

Erroneous ISBN

9783030041335

Title Proper

Topographies of Caribbean writing, race, and the British countryside /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Joanna Johnson.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cham, Switzerland :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource

Series Title

Geocriticism and spatial literary studies

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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

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Text of Note

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.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

Springer Nature

Stock Number

com.springer.onix.9783030041342

Title

Topographies of Caribbean writing, race, and the British countryside.

International Standard Book Number

9783030041335

Caribbean literature-- Influence.

English literature-- Caribbean authors-- History and criticism.

Landscapes in literature.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.

Caribbean literature.

Landscapes.

Great Britain, In literature.

Great Britain.

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BIO-- 007000

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Johnson, Joanna

Date of Transaction

20200823080219.0

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