Title:	From Nation to Diaspora
Authors:	Professor Edward Baugh Selvon, Samuel George Lamming
Keywords:	Nationalism in literature
Issue Date:	2005
Publisher:	university press
Description:	THIS BOOK IS A DISCUSSION of gender in West Indian culture. It undertakes the discussion through a revisionary reading of gender in selected novels written by Samuel Selvon and George Lamming from the 1950s to the 1970s,1 the period in which nationalism in the West Indies (that is, the anglophone Caribbean) reached its highest level of consolidation. The book locates Selvon’s and Lamming’s representations of gender within the discourse of nationalism, the primary mode in which the West Indies has thought about itself since the early decades of the twentieth century. The discussion suggests how Selvon’s and Lamming’s texts point towards issues within the discourses of diaspora and postmodernism, the major paradigms that, from the last three decades of the twentieth century and increasingly in the twentyfirst, have begun to shift nationalism from its central place as the shaping force by which West Indianness is imagined.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/16575
ISBN:	976-640-171-3
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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