04545oam 2200757I 450 991097371870332120251117071420.01-317-33128-11-315-65851-81-317-33127-310.4324/9781315658513 (CKB)3710000000615654(SSID)ssj0001628685(PQKBManifestationID)16370695(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001628685(PQKBWorkID)14854169(PQKB)11018640(PQKBManifestationID)16243898(PQKBWorkID)14854034(PQKB)24823326(MiAaPQ)EBC4443452(OCoLC)932109987(PPN)19944207X(BIP)63344770(BIP)53538553(EXLCZ)99371000000061565420180706d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrTransnational narratives from the Caribbean diasporic literature and the human experience /Elvira Pulitano1st ed.New York ;London :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (253 pages)Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on LiteratureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-138-99877-X Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Diasporic homelands -- pt. 2. Uprooting, migrancy, regrounding : re-writing exile -- pt. 3. Paradise islands, wild nature, and the contemporary tourist gaze : re/locating the Caribbean.This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations. Focusing on the Caribbean double-diaspora, Pulitano offers a close-reading of a range of popular works by four well-known writers currently living in the United States: Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, and Caryl Phillips. Navigating the map of fictional characters, testimonial accounts, and autobiographical experiences, Pulitano draws attention to the lived experience of contemporary diasporic formations. The book offers a provocative re-thinking of socio-scientific analyses of diaspora by discussing the embodied experience of contemporary diasporic communities, drawing on disciplines such as Caribbean, Postcolonial, Diaspora, and Indigenous Studies along with theories on "border thinking" and coloniality/modernity. Contesting restrictive, national, and linguistic boundaries when discussing literature originating from the Caribbean, Pulitano situates the transnational location of Caribbean-born writers within current debates of Transnational American Studies and investigates the role of immigrant writers in discourses of race, ethnicity, citizenship, and belonging. Exploring the multifarious intersections between home, exile, migration and displacement, the book makes a significant contribution to memory and trauma studies, human rights debates, and international law, aiming at a wide range of scholars and specialized agents beyond the strictly literary circle. This volume affirms the humanity of personal stories and experiences against the invisibility of immigrant subjects in most theoretical accounts of diaspora and migration.Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature.Caribbean literature (English)Black authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAfrican diaspora in literatureTransnationalism in literatureRace in literatureExiles in literatureCaribbean AreaIn literatureCaribbean literature (English)Black authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.African diaspora in literature.Transnationalism in literature.Race in literature.Exiles in literature.810.9/8960729810.98960729Pulitano Elvira1970-,1105666MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973718703321Transnational narratives from the Caribbean4473812UNINA