- Hardcover: 232 pages
- Publisher: Indiana University Press (1 Feb 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0253335698
- ISBN-13: 978-0253335692
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.6 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,683,126 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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" ... as a text which reaches towards a new way of thinking about race and ethnicity in contemporary America, and as a manifesto for further work, Hathaway's book deserves a warm welcome."--Review of English Studies, Vo. 52, No. 208, 2001
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This study investigates the lives and writings of two of the most prominent African Caribbean immigrant authors in the United States, Claude McKay (1890-1948) and Paule Marshall (b. 1929). Although both writers traditionally have been studied within the realm of African American literature, their works are significantly shaped by their backgrounds as Caribbean immigrants. Caribbean Waves reconsiders the writing of McKay and Marshall in light of each author's status as an immigrant. It explores the ways in which literature can probe the complexities of displacement and identity construction that often accompany migratory experiences. Analysis of McKay's and Marshall's works reveals how the forces of migration, racial and national affiliation, and 'Americanization' can merge to produce uniquely hybridized, and at times profoundly homeless, black American immigrant identities.By examining how McKay and Marshall negotiate issues of cultural (dis)location in their works, this study complicates notions of 'African American', 'black', and 'Caribbeaner'. By assessing texts within the cultural milieux, this study grounds, in concrete examples, the prevailing litany of 'race, class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality' that dominate contemporary literary discourse.By addressing the social factors that surround the act of immigration, the study provides a foundation for understanding patterns of association and dissociation that mark the work of other African Caribbean immigrant authors in the United States, including Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Michelle Cliff, Jamaica Kincaid, and Derek Walcott. Hathaway challenges critics to reassess even the fundamental definition, of black American literary and cultural studies. By focusing on the ways in which concepts of race and ethnicity intersect in the writing of McKay and Marshall, the author demonstrates the need for serious investigation, from a variety of disciplines, of ethnic and national differences within the context of racial sameness in the United States.
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IN NOVEMBER 1926, Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, the literary organ of the National Urban League, published a "Special Caribbean Issue." Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
IN NOVEMBER 1926, Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, the literary organ of the National Urban League, published a "Special Caribbean Issue." Read the first page
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