Overview
- Addresses immigrant narratives, travel literature, and postcolonial literature
- Demonstrates Caribbean authors’ contributions to pastoral literature
- Illuminates the ways in which these texts rewrite narratives of British rural landscapes
Part of the book series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies (GSLS)
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About this book
How do Caribbean writers see the British countryside? Do they feel included, ignored, marginalised? In Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside, Joanna Johnson shows how writers like Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Grace Nichols, Andrea Levy, and Caryl Phillips have very different and unexpected responses to this rural space. Johnson demonstrates how Caribbean writing shows greater complexity and wider significance than accounts and understandings of the British countryside have traditionally admitted; at the same time, close examination of these works illustrates that complexity and ambiguity remain an essential part of these authors’ relationships with the British countrysides of their colonial or postcolonial imaginations. This study examines accepted norms and raises questions about urgent issues of belonging, Britishness, and Commonwealth identity.
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About the author
Joanna Johnson is Director of Writing at the University of Miami, USA, where she has taught since 2000. She has published chapters in the edited collections Geocritical Explorations (2011) and The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives (2011). She also works and does research on scientific writing and the responsible conduct of research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside
Authors: Joanna Johnson
Series Title: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04134-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04133-5Published: 17 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04134-2Published: 04 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2578-9694
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 190
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Latin American/Caribbean Literature, British and Irish Literature, Contemporary Literature