Making Homes in the West/Indies Constructions of Subjectivity in the Writings of Michelle Cliff and Jamaica Kincaid Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series

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 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Talking Back to the Bildungsroman; Chapter 3 Negotiating Exile; Chapter 4 Slippery Tongues; Chapter 5 W/righting History; Chapter 6 Kwik? Kwak!;

William E. Cain English Wellesley College