Belinda Edmondson

Making Men

Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Compares the intellectual exile of men with the economic migration of women, linking the canonical male tradition to the writing of modern West Indian women

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780822322634
• ISBN-10: 0822322633
• Artikelnr.: 22150277

Autorenporträt

Belinda Edmondson

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Writing the Caribbean: Gender and Literary Authority 1
Part I. Making Men: Writing the Nation 17
1 "Race-ing" the Nation: Englishness, Blackness, and the Discourse of
Victorian Manhood 19
2 Literary Men and the English Canonical Tradition 38
3 Representing the Fold: The Crisis of Literary Authenticity 58
Part II. Writing Women: Making the Nation 79
4 Theorizing Caribbean Feminist Aesthetics 81
5 The Novel of Revolution and the Unrepresentable Black Woman 105
6 Return of the Native: Immigrant Women's Writing and the Narrative of
Exile 139
Notes 169
Bibliography 205
Index 221