Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-320) and index.
Testing and testifying: the Hart sisters -- The heartbeat of a West Indian slave: The history of Mary Prince -- The enigma of arrival: Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole -- "The traveling Ulysses scene": Claude McKay's A long way from home and My green hills of Jamaica -- Blurred genres, blended voices: George Lamming's In the castle of my skin -- Autobiographical frameworks and linked discourses: George Lamming's The pleasures of exile and C.L.R. James's Beyond a boundary -- Poetic autobiography: Derek Walcott's Another life -- Fragments of epic memory: V.S. Naipaul's Finding the center and A way in the world -- Maternal bonds: My mother's daughter: the autobiography of Anna Mahase., snr., 1899-1978 -- Colonist and Creole: Yseult Bridges's Child of the tropics and Jean Rhys's Smile please -- Beyond consolation: Kamau Brathwaite's The Zea Mexican diary -- Death and sexuality: Jamaica Kincaid's My brother