Kaiama L. Glover

A Regarded Self

Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being

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Produktbeschreibung

Kaiama L. Glover examines Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean literature whose female protagonists enact practices of freedom that privilege the self, challenge the prioritization of the community over the individual, and refuse masculinist discourses of postcolonial nation building.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9781478011248
• ISBN-10: 1478011246
• Artikelnr.: 59964007

Autorenporträt

Kaiama L. Glover is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is coeditor of The Haiti Reader: History, Culture, Politics, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction  1
1. Self-Love Tituba  39
2. Self-Possession Hadriana  68
3. Self-Defense Lotus  111
4. Self-Preservation Xuela  146
5. Self-Regard Lilith  188
Epilogue  219
Notes  225
Works Cited  249
Index