Narratives of Exile and Return / Edition 1

by Mary Chamberlain

Overview

In this original and compelling book, Mary Chamberlain explores the nature and meaning of migration for Barbadians who migrated to Britain and elsewhere. It is a unique oral and social history, based on life-story interviews across three or more generations of Barbadian families. Locating migration within the contemporary debate on modernity, Narratives of Exile and Return highlights the continuing role of migration in shaping the culture and history of Barbados. But it does more by providing post-modern theorizing with concrete national and ethnic settings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765808240
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	10/31/2004
Series:	Memory and Narrative Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mary Chamberlain is emeritus professor of Caribbean history at Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom. In addition, she is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the advisory group of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, and a member of the United Kingdom government’s Caribbean Advisory Group (1998-2002). She is former editor of the Transaction Memory and Narrative series, which now has over fifteen volumes in print.

Mary Chamberlain is emeritus professor of Caribbean history at Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom. In addition, she is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the advisory group of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, and a member of the United Kingdom government’s Caribbean Advisory Group (1998-2002). She is former editor of the Transaction Memory and Narrative series, which now has over fifteen volumes in print.

Table of Contents

Part One; Introduction; 1: Migration and Modernity; 2: From the Panama Canal to the Regent’s Canal; 3: Family Narratives and Migration Dynamics; 4: Narratives of Exile and Return; 5: Gender and the Narratives of Migration; 6: Absence and the ‘Consolation of Freedom’; Part Two; Introduction; 7: Family One; 8: Family Two; 9: Family Three; 10: Family Four; 11: Family Five