Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction

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Locating the Destitute New World Studies J. Michael Dash, Editor Frank Moya Pons and Sandra Pouchet Paquet, Associate Editors Locating the Destitute Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction Stanka Radović University of Virginia Press Charlottesville and London A book in the American Literatures Initiative (ALI), a collaborative publishing project of NYU Press, Fordham University Press, Rutgers University Press, Temple University Press, and the University of Virginia Press. The Initiative is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information, please visit www.americanliteratures.org. University of Virginia Press© 2014 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper First published 2014 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Radović, Stanka, 1974– Locating the Destitute : Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction / Stanka Radović. pages cm. — (New World Studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8139-3628-4 (cloth : acid-free paper) ISBN 978-0-8139-3629-1 (pbk. : acid-free paper) ISBN 978-0-8139-3630-7 (e-book) 1. Caribbean fiction (English)—History and criticism. 2. Caribbean fiction (French)—History and criticism. 3. Space and time in literature. 4. Personal space in literature. I. Title. PR9205.05.R33 2014 810.9'9729—dc23 2013046705 This book is dedicated—with love—to Joshua and Daniel Dittrich, who helped me write it, and to the memory of my father, Ranko Radović, architect, who made everything possible. ...