Table of Contents:
  • Caribbean modernist discourse : writing, exile, and tradition
  • From exile to nationalism : the early novels of George Lamming
  • Beyond the Kala-pani : the Trinidad novels of Samuel Selvon
  • Deformation of modernism : the allegory of history in Carpentier's El siglo de las luces
  • Modernism and the masks of history : the novels of Paule Marshall
  • Writing after colonialism : Crick crack, Monkey and Beka lamb
  • Narration at the postcolonial moment : history and representation in Abeng.