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In praise of new travelers : reading Caribbean migrant women writers / Isabel Hoving.

By: Series: Cultural memory in the presentPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.Description: ix, 374 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0804729476
  • 9780804729475
  • 0804729484
  • 9780804729482
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.5099287/09729 21
LOC classification:
  • PR9205.4 .H68 2001
Other classification:
  • 18.07
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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PR 9199.3 .J54 E5 2002 Enemy women PR 9199.3 .O5 A84 2000 Anil's ghost / PR 9199.4 .Y696 S53 2007 The Shack. PR 9205.4 .H68 2001 In praise of new travelers : reading Caribbean migrant women writers / PR 9369.3 .C58 D5 1999 Disgrace / PR 9369.3 .P37 C7 2003 Cry, the beloved country / PR 9387.9 .A3 A83 1987 Anthills of the Savannah /

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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