ABSTRACT

This study focuses on the ways in which two of the most prominent Caribbean women writers residing in the United States, Michelle Cliff and Jamaica Kincaid, have made themselves at home within Caribbean poetics, even as their migration to the United States affords them participation and acceptance within its literary space.

chapter |28 pages

Introduction

Kwik? Kwak!: Narrations of the Self

chapter |38 pages

Negotiating Exile

Take your Bundle an' Leave an' Go

chapter |32 pages

Slippery Tongues 1

Re/claiming Orality as a Tactic of Intervention

chapter |31 pages

W/righting History

Locating the Traveling Subject

chapter |17 pages

Kwik? Kwak!

Infinite Chronicles of The Word and The World