Jamaica's Difficult Subjects : Negotiating Sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism /

"Recognizing that in the contemporary postcolonial moment, national identity and cultural nationalism are no longer the primary modes of imagining sovereignty, Sheri-Marie Harrison argues that postcolonial critics must move beyond an identity-based orthodoxy as they examine problems of sovereig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Harrison, Sheri-Marie, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sovereignty in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Motion pictures.
Jamaican literature.
Caribbean literature (English)
Cinema > Caraïbes (Region) > Histoire.
Jamaïquains > Dans la litterature.
Litterature jamaïquaine (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Souverainete dans la litterature.
Postcolonialisme dans la litterature.
Litterature antillaise (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Motion pictures > Caribbean Area > History.
National characteristics, Jamaican > In literature.
Caribbean literature (English) > History and criticism.
Jamaican literature > History and criticism.
Caribbean Area.
Critiques cinematographiques.
Critiques litteraires.
Film criticism.
Literary criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The politics of sovereignty in postcolonial West Indian literary discourse
  • "Who worked this evil, brought this distance between us?" : sex and sovereignty in Sylvia Wynter's 'The hills of Hebron'
  • "What you say, Elsa?": postcolonial sovereignty and gendered self-actualization
  • "No, my girl, try Bertha" : race, gender, nation, and criticism in 'Wide Sargasso Sea' and 'Lionheart gal'
  • Beyond inclusion, beyond nation : queering twenty-first-century Caribbean literature.

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