Acknowledgements
Introduction: “Some Deep, Amnesiac Blow”
PART 1 ONTOLOGIES
“Re-membering Our Scattered Skeletons”: Literary Representations of the
Zong Massacre
“The Womb of My Otherness”: Creolization in “The View from the Terrace” and “Barbados”
Lament of the Unhomely: Nationhood and Nonbelonging in the Work of V.S. Naipaul
“Something Inside Is Laid Wide Like a Wound”: Walcott’s City of Pain and Promise
PART 2 SOCIAL ISSUES
One Day for the Hunter, One Day for the Prey: State Criminality in Danticat’s Fiction
“When Memory Is a Bruise Still Tender”: Ageing and Alzheimer’s in
Cascade and
Soucouyant
“Naked with Unknowing”: Childhood Trauma and the Unmaking of Self
“Rum Till I Die”: Discourses of Alcoholism and Death
“No Money, No Love”: Representations of the Social Impact of Poverty
Afterword
Appendix
Notes
References
Index