In praise of new travelers : reading Caribbean migrant women writers /
Hoving, Isabel.
In praise of new travelers : reading Caribbean migrant women writers / Isabel Hoving. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001. - ix, 374 pages ; 24 cm. - Cultural memory in the present . - Cultural memory in the present. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-361) and index.
Tropes of women's exile : violent journeys and the body's geography -- Homemaking, woman-talk, time-waste : Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani house -- Writing for listeners : Merle Colin's Angel -- The pleasures of address : Grace Nichols's Whole of a morning sky -- Jamaica Kincaid is getting angry -- A dog with a foaming mouth : Michelle Cliff and the dangers of the interior -- The castration of Livingstone : Marlene Nourbese Philip's successful seduction of the father of silence.
Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an appraisal of developments in postcolonial criticism. Readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts lead to insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the field.
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1900-1999
Caribbean fiction (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Immigrants' writings, English--History and criticism.
Women and literature--History--Caribbean Area--20th century.
Women immigrants--Intellectual life.--Caribbean Area
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Women in literature.
Écrits de femmes antillais (anglais)--Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Écrits d'immigrants anglais--Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature--Histoire--Caraïbes (Région)--20e siècle.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Émigration et immigration dans la littérature.
Caraïbes (Région) dans la littérature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
English fiction.
Immigrants in literature.
Immigrants' writings, English.
Literature.
Women and literature.
Women in literature.
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Migranten.
Caribbean Area--In literature.
Caribbean Area--In literature.
Caribbean Area.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR9205.4 / .H68 2001
813/.5099287/09729
In praise of new travelers : reading Caribbean migrant women writers / Isabel Hoving. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001. - ix, 374 pages ; 24 cm. - Cultural memory in the present . - Cultural memory in the present. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-361) and index.
Tropes of women's exile : violent journeys and the body's geography -- Homemaking, woman-talk, time-waste : Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani house -- Writing for listeners : Merle Colin's Angel -- The pleasures of address : Grace Nichols's Whole of a morning sky -- Jamaica Kincaid is getting angry -- A dog with a foaming mouth : Michelle Cliff and the dangers of the interior -- The castration of Livingstone : Marlene Nourbese Philip's successful seduction of the father of silence.
Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an appraisal of developments in postcolonial criticism. Readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts lead to insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the field.
0804729476 9780804729475 0804729484 9780804729482
00045812
GBA204976 bnb
012650491 Uk
1900-1999
Caribbean fiction (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Immigrants' writings, English--History and criticism.
Women and literature--History--Caribbean Area--20th century.
Women immigrants--Intellectual life.--Caribbean Area
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Women in literature.
Écrits de femmes antillais (anglais)--Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Écrits d'immigrants anglais--Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature--Histoire--Caraïbes (Région)--20e siècle.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Émigration et immigration dans la littérature.
Caraïbes (Région) dans la littérature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
English fiction.
Immigrants in literature.
Immigrants' writings, English.
Literature.
Women and literature.
Women in literature.
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Migranten.
Caribbean Area--In literature.
Caribbean Area--In literature.
Caribbean Area.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR9205.4 / .H68 2001
813/.5099287/09729