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Disturbers of the Peace
Kelly Baker Josephs
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Hardback. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 413.
Exploring the prevalence of madness in Caribbean texts written in English in the mid-twentieth century, Kelly Baker Josephs focuses on celebrated writers such as Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, and Derek Walcott as well as on understudied writers such as Sylvia Wynter and Erna Brodber. Because mad figures appear frequently in Caribbean literature from French, Spanish, and English traditions—in roles ranging from bit parts to first-person narrators—the author regards madness as a part of the West Indian literary aesthetic. The relatively condensed decolonisation of the anglophone islands during the 1960s and 1970s, she argues, makes literature written in English during ... Read more
Exploring the prevalence of madness in Caribbean texts written in English in the mid-twentieth century, Kelly Baker Josephs focuses on celebrated writers such as Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, and Derek Walcott as well as on understudied writers such as Sylvia Wynter and Erna Brodber. Because mad figures appear frequently in Caribbean literature from French, Spanish, and English traditions—in roles ranging from bit parts to first-person narrators—the author regards madness as a part of the West Indian literary aesthetic. The relatively condensed decolonisation of the anglophone islands during the 1960s and 1970s, she argues, makes literature written in English during ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
New World Studies
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813935058
SKU
V9780813935058
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About Kelly Baker Josephs
Kelly Baker Josephs is Associate Professor of English at York College, CUNY, USA.
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