Caribbean passages : a critical perspective on new fiction from the West Indies /

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Author / Creator:Patteson, Richard F. (Richard Francis), 1947-
Imprint:Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998.
Description:ix, 189 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2960498
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ISBN:0894108514 (alk. paper)
Notes:"A three continents book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-182) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: The Third Wave
  • Guanahani
  • Waves and Echoes
  • 2. Olive Senior: Country Air and Juggled Worlds
  • Summer Lightning: Customs of the Country
  • Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Discerner of Hearts: The Wider World
  • 3. Zee Edgell: The Belize Chronicles
  • Beka Lamb: A Lesson in History
  • In Times Like These: Growing into Home
  • 4. Shiva Naipaul: Choreographer of Chaos
  • Essays and Stories
  • Fireflies: Illuminating the Void
  • The Chip-Chip Gatherers: Ropes Across the Abyss
  • A Hot Country: Too Much Nothing
  • 5. Caryl Phillips: The End of All Exploring
  • The Final Passage: The Book of the Parents
  • A State of Independence: The Book of the Sons
  • Cambridge: The Book of the Ancestors
  • 6. Robert Antoni: The Voyage In
  • Short Fiction
  • Divina Trace: The Tale of Telling
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Book