Women writing the West Indies, 1804-1939 : "a hot place, belonging to us" /

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This pioneering study surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole, with special regard to 'race' and gender.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: O'Callaghan, Evelyn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Series:Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 8.
Subjects:
West Indian literature (English) > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women > West Indies > Intellectual life.
Women and literature > West Indies.
Slavery in literature.
Women in literature.
Femmes > Antilles > Vie intellectuelle.
Femmes et littérature > Antilles.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
West Indian literature (English) > Women authors.
Women and literature.
Women > Intellectual life.
West Indies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Defamiliarizing ~the mistress~: representations of white women in the West Indies; ~With the utmost familiarity~: black and white women; ~This is another world~: travel narratives, women and the construction of tropical landscape; A female ~El Dorado~; Narratives of tainted empire; Colonial discourse and the subaltern's voice; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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