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Matria Redux : Caribbean Women Novelize the Past /
"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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2023]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 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, "hysterie", and matrilineage in Marie-Elena John's "Unburnable"
- Conclusion: Matria redux
- Notes
- Works cited
- index.