Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature: Remitting the Text Book

Acknowledgments Introduction: Theorizing Diaspora, Theorizing Home 1: Creating Diaspora: Caribbean Migrant Literature in England and North America, 1930’s-1960’s 2: Migrant Bodies, Scars and Tattoos: Art as Terror and Transformation in Edwidge Danticat’s Brother I’m Dying and The Dew Breaker 3: "Two places can make children?": Metaphysics, Authorship and the Borders of Diaspora 4: Rethinking a Caribbean Literary Economy: Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother and Beryl Gilroy’s Frangipani House as Remittance Texts 5: "No Abiding City": Theorizing Deportation in Caribbean Migrant Fiction Afterword: On the Edge of the World Notes Bibliography Index