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In Praise of New Travelers : Reading Caribbean Migrant Women's Writing /
Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an accessible and concrete appraisal of current developments in postcolonial criticism. Detailed readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts from the late 1980s and 1990s lead to sharp insights int...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Cultural Memory in the Present
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- 1 Introduction: Place, Voice, and Silence
- 2 Tropes of Women's Exile: Violent Journeys and the Body's Geography
- 3 Homemaking, Woman-Talk, Time-Waste: Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani House
- 4 Writing for Listeners: Merle Collins's Angel
- 5 The Pleasures of Address: Grace Nichols's Whole of a Morning Sky
- 6 Jamaica Kincaid Is Getting Angry
- 7 A Dog with a Foaming Mouth: Michelle Cliff and the Dangers of the Interior
- 8 The Castration of Livingstone: Marlene Nourbese Philip's Successful Seduction of the Father of Silence
- 9 Conclusion: On the Hybridity of Cross-Cultural Dialogue
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index