Colonialism Gender Relations From Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica - East Caribbean Connections

Informationen zum Autor Moira Ferguson Klappentext In this book the author examines connections between gender and colonial relations in texts by British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and Caribbean writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Zusammenfassung Against the historical background of slavery and colonialism! this study investigates how white and Afro-Caribbean women writers have responded to feminist! abolitionist and post-emancipationist issues. It aims to reveal a relationship between colonial exploitation and female sexual oppression.

Product details

• Authors: Moira Ferguson
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.09.1994
• EAN: 9780231082235
• ISBN: 978-0-231-08223-5
• No. of pages: 175
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies