From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming And the Cultural Performance of Gender

by Curdella Forbes

This book is a discussion of gender in West Indian culture. It undertakes the discussion through a revisionary reading of gender in selected novels written by Samuel Selvon and George Lamming from the 1950s to the 1970s. This was a period in which nationalism in the West Indies (anglophone Caribbean) reached its highest level of consolidation.

316 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2005

About the author

CURDELLA FORBES is a Jamaican American writer who lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, and teaches at Howard University. A Tall History of Sugar is her latest novel.