Campbell, Elaine. “An Expatriate at Home: Dominica’s Elma Napier”. Kunapipi, No. 1, Dangaroo Press, pp. 82 -93.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Elma Napier | Critic Elaine Campbell
reads this novel as a precursor to Doris Lessing
's The Summer Before the Dark, 1973. Campbell sees EN
's courage—in writing a novel of a middle-aged woman's second chance at... |
Literary responses | Elma Napier | Critic Elaine Campbell
reads EN
's collection of travel-stories as belonging to the tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson
and Alec Waugh
. Campbell, Elaine. “An Expatriate at Home: Dominica’s Elma Napier”. Kunapipi, No. 1, Dangaroo Press, pp. 82 -93. 86 |
Literary responses | Elma Napier | Critic Elaine Campbell
commends EN
's handling of social inequalities: issues of sexual and racial social imbalance are presented with a poise and control that preserve the novel from deteriorating into a polemical tract. Campbell, Elaine. “An Expatriate at Home: Dominica’s Elma Napier”. Kunapipi, No. 1, Dangaroo Press, pp. 82 -93. 91 |
Literary responses | Elma Napier | Critic Elaine Campbell
calls the volume a fascinating chronicle of the Edwardian period in England. Campbell, Elaine. “An Expatriate at Home: Dominica’s Elma Napier”. Kunapipi, No. 1, Dangaroo Press, pp. 82 -93. 91 |
Literary responses | Elma Napier | Recuperative efforts by critics of Caribbean women's literature, such as Elaine Campbell
, Evelyn O'Callaghan
, Alison Donnell
, and Sarah Lawson Welsh
, have recovered EN
's work and placed it within the literary... |
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