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" Topographies of Caribbean writing, race, and the British countryside / "
Joanna Johnson.
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BL
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860256
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Johnson, Joanna
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Topographies of Caribbean writing, race, and the British countryside /\ Joanna Johnson.
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| Publication Statement
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2019]
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| Series Statement
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Geocriticism and spatial literary studies
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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3030041344
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3030041336
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9783030041335
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: Constructing the Countryside; Historical Context of Caribbean Migration to Britain; Countryside Connections; Daffodils and Empire; Chapter 2 Remembrance Rocks; Chapter 3 Befitting the Landscape; Chapter 4 Topography Rules; Chapter 5 Reframing the Landscape; Chapter 6 Redefinitions: Race and Rurality; Chapter 7 Conclusion: Imaginative Geographies; The British Countryside Today: Singing with Different Voices; References; Index
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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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Caribbean literature-- Influence.
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English literature-- Caribbean authors-- History and criticism.
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Landscapes in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.
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Caribbean literature.
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Landscapes.
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Great Britain, In literature.
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Great Britain.
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820.99729
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PR120.C27J64 2019
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