Quince Duncan : writing Afro-Costa Rican and Caribbean identity /

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Author / Creator:Mosby, Dorothy E., 1970-
Imprint:Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014.
©2014
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11219848
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ISBN:9780817387228
0817387226
9780817313494
0817313494
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Quince Duncan is a comprehensive study of the published short stories and novels of Costa Rica's first novelist of African descent and one of the nation's most esteemed contemporary writers. The grandson of Jamaican and Barbadian immigrants to Limón, Quince Duncan (b. 1940) incorporates personal memories into stories about first generation Afro-West Indian immigrants and their descendants in Costa Rica. Duncan's novels, short stories, recompilations of oral literature, and essays intimately convey the challenges of Afro-West Indian contract laborers and the st.
Other form:Print version: Mosby, Dorothy E. Quince Duncan. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014 9780817313494