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Caliban in Exile: The Outsider in Caribbean Fiction

by Margaret Paul Joseph. 152 pgs.

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Table of contents
Contents
Preface vii
1. Caliban the Excluded 1
2. "Bootless Inquisition": Jean Rhys and the Mirror of Exile 21
3. The Tormented Spirit: George Lamming and the Tragic Sense of Life 51
4. Caliban the Calypsonian: The Ballad of Sam Selvon 83
5. Redefining Caliban: Toward a Brave New World 113
Bibliography 133
Index 145
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