In praise of new travelers : reading Caribbean migrant women writers / Isabel Hoving.
Series: Cultural memory in the presentPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.Description: ix, 374 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0804729476
- 9780804729475
- 0804729484
- 9780804729482
- 1900-1999
- Caribbean fiction (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Immigrants' writings, English -- History and criticism
- Women and literature -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 20th century
- Women immigrants -- Caribbean Area -- Intellectual life
- Emigration and immigration in literature
- Immigrants in literature
- Women in literature
- Écrits de femmes antillais (anglais) -- Histoire et critique
- Roman anglais -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Écrits d'immigrants anglais -- Histoire et critique
- Femmes et littérature -- Caraïbes (Région) -- Histoire -- 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
- 813/.5099287/09729 21
- PR9205.4 .H68 2001
- 18.07
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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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