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Nationalism and identity : culture and the imagination in a Caribbean diaspora

Title
Nationalism and identity : culture and the imagination in a Caribbean diaspora / Stefano Harney.
Author
Harney, Stefano, 1962-
Publication
Kingston [Jamaica] : University of the West Indies ; London ; New Jersey : Zed Books, 1996.

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Description
216 pages; 22 cm
Subject
  • Trinidadian and Tobagonian literature (English) > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Caribbean literature (English) > 20th century > History and criticism
  • West Indians > Foreign countries > Intellectual life
  • National characteristics in literature
  • Nationalism in literature
  • Trinidad and Tobago > Intellectual life
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Beyond Nationalism: Literary Nation-building in the Work of Earl Lovelace and Michael Anthony -- 2. Men Go Have Respect For All O' We: Valerie Belgrave's Invention of Trinidad -- 3. Willi Chen and Carnival Nationalism in Trinidad -- 4. Samuel Selvon and the Chronopolitics of a Diasporic Nationalism -- 5. Neil Bissoondath and Migrant Liberation from the Nation -- 6. V.S. Naipaul and the Pitfalls of Nationalism -- 7. C.L.R. James and Egalitarian Nationalism in the Caribbean -- Conclusion: Mud Mas: Playing Identity.
ISBN
  • 185649375X
  • 1856493768 (pbk.)
LCCN
95040974
OCLC
  • 33161515
  • ocm33161515
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries