Out of order : Anthony Winkler and white West Indian writing /

Anthony C. Winkler, one of the most popular West Indian writers of the last fifty years largely due to his "out-of-order" outrageousness, is a white Jamaican who is often, on the basis of his writing, assumed to be black. Acknowledging the fluidity of the terms "white Jamaican" a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robinson, Kim
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jamaica : UWIPress, 2006
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1 White West Indian Writers and Winkler
  • Chapter 1 Winkler and West Indian Whiteness 9
  • Chapter 2 Winkler and White West Indian Writing 21
  • Chapter 3 Transcending the Planter Legacy 46
  • Chapter 4 Claiming an Identity We Thought They Despised 65
  • Part 2 Reading Anthony Winkler
  • Chapter 5 Writing the Black Protagonist 85
  • Chapter 6 Carnival Meets Dancehall 111
  • Chapter 7 Searching for the Centre 130