Evelyn O'Callaghan

Women Writing the West Indies, 1804-1939 (eBook, PDF)

'A Hot Place, Belonging To Us'

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Produktbeschreibung

This pioneering study surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole. It introduces a fascinating wealth of relatively unknown material and constitutes a timely interrogation of the supposed homogeneity of Caribbean discourse, especially with regard to 'race' and gender.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134440979
• Artikelnr.: 42981033

Autorenporträt

Evelyn O'Callaghan is a senior lecturer in English at the University of the West Indies, Barbados. Her publications include Woman Version: Theoretical Approaches to West Indian Fiction by Women (1993). She recently edited an early Antiguan novel, With Silent Tread by Frieda Cassin (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Defamiliarizing 'The Mistress':Representations of White
Women in the West Indies 3. 'This is Another World':Travel Narratives,
Women and the Construction of Tropical Landscape 4. A Female 'El Dorado' 5.
Narratives of Tainted Empire 6. Colonial Discourse and the Subaltern's
Voice