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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Zimmerman, Tegan (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
Collection:Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.