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"In Matria Redux: Caribbean Women Novelize the Past, author Tegan Zimmerman contends that there is a need for reading Caribbean women's texts relationally. This comprehensive study argues that the writer's turn to maternal histories constitutes the definitive feature of this transcult...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zimmerman, Tegan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
Colección:Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
Temas:
Caribbean literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women authors, Caribbean.
Women and literature > Caribbean Area > History.
Caribbean fiction > Women authors.
Femmes et littérature > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies
Caribbean fiction > Women authors
Caribbean literature > Women authors
Women and literature
Women authors, Caribbean
Caribbean Area
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Ex matria
  • Africa's daughters: the neo-slavery novel's Caribbean maternal genealogy
  • 1. Maternal genealogies and the legacy of nonhistory in Dionne Brand's "At the full and change of the moon"
  • 2. Voice, violence, and masculine suffocation in Andrea Levy's "The long song"
  • Dispossessed daughters: searching for Caribbean mother-land/tongue
  • 3. Maternal conflicts, coolitude, and colonialism in Jan Lowe Shinebourn's "The last English plantation"
  • 4. "Matriz", transgressive sexuality, and national ambiguity in Judith Ortiz Cofer's "The meaning of Consuelo"
  • Politicized mothers: dreaming the matria
  • 5. "Mother of the rivers": maternal tropes in Edwidge Danticat's "The farming of bones"
  • 6. Revolutionary herstory and martial/marital law in Andrea O'Reilly Herrera's "The pearl of the Antilles"
  • Ancestral mothers: the Caribbean daughter's homecoming
  • 7. The return of daughterly reincar(nation) and rituals in Paule Marshall's "Praisesong for the widow"
  • 8. Cartography, "hystérie", and matrilineage in Marie-Elena John's "Unburnable"
  • Conclusion: Matria redux
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • index.

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