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From nation to diaspora : Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the cultural performance of gender / Curdella Forbes.

By: Forbes, Curdella.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, c2005Description: x, 305 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9789766401719 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Selvon, Samuel -- Criticism and interpretation | Lamming, George, 1927- -- Criticism and interpretation | West Indian literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism | Gender identity in literature | Culture in literature | Feminism and literature -- West IndiesDDC classification: 810.997 29
Contents:
The necessity of gender: Selvon, Lamming and the re-imagination of culture -- Representations of gender in the nationalist period: images, foundations and performances -- Representing exile: the flight from gender in Selvon's Lonely Londoners, Moses Ascending and the Housing Lark -- Going home: performing masculinity in A Brighter Sun and Turn Again Tiger -- The construction of gender as anti-colonial discourse: Lamming's Of Age and Innoncence and Season of Adventure -- Theorizing the feminine and the body in Natives of my Person and The Emigrants -- All this, diasporic and the postmodern.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The necessity of gender: Selvon, Lamming and the re-imagination of culture -- Representations of gender in the nationalist period: images, foundations and performances -- Representing exile: the flight from gender in Selvon's Lonely Londoners, Moses Ascending and the Housing Lark -- Going home: performing masculinity in A Brighter Sun and Turn Again Tiger -- The construction of gender as anti-colonial discourse: Lamming's Of Age and Innoncence and Season of Adventure -- Theorizing the feminine and the body in Natives of my Person and The Emigrants -- All this, diasporic and the postmodern.

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