Böcker av Barbara Lalla

A gifted young scholar clings desperately to part-time employment at a Caribbean university. Then, a post opens up on an unknown offshore campus in Portmore, Jamaica. Into this harsh yet delicate terrain ventures Candace Clarke, bent on taking root in an academic world. This tale of inner and outer landscapes marks a new departure in Caribbean fiction.

Maroons - slaves who escaped servitude to establish their own hegemonies - are central characters in Jamaican heritage, even influencing literary character types in Jamaican fiction. This work focuses on the place of Jamaican fiction in the larger regional literature.

This is a study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolised languages that characterise Caribbean discourse, especially as reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative writers. Caribbean Literary Discourse opens the challenging world of language choices and literary experiments characteristic of the multicultural and multilingual Caribbean.