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Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN
Creolizing the Metropole is a comparative study of postwar West Indian migration to the former colonial capitals of Paris and London. It studies the effects of this population shift on national and cultural identity and traces the postcolonial...
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Creolizing the Metropole is a comparative study of postwar West Indian migration to the former colonial capitals of Paris and London. It studies the effects of this population shift on national and cultural identity and traces the postcolonial Caribbean experience through analyses of the concepts of identity and diaspora. Through close readings of selected literary works and film, H. Adlai Murdoch explores the ways in which these immigrants and their descendants represented their metropolitan identities. Though British immigrants were colonial subjects and, later, residents of British Commonwe
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CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; - INTRODUCTION The Caribbean Diaspora and the Metropoles ; 1 CARIBBEAN DIASPORIC IDENTITY Between Home and Away; 2 BEYOND A BOUNDARY Constructing Anglo-Caribbean and Franco-Antillean Identity; 3 MIGRATION PLURALIZES THE METROPOLE How a Small Island Revealed Its White Teeth; 4 CREOLIZING THE HEXAGON Periphery and Place in Desinada and Exile According to Julia ; 5 PLAYING AT INTEGRATION Confrontation and Conflict in the Metropolitan Suburbs ; - CONCLUSION (Re)Colonizing the Metropole; Notes; Works Cited; Index
