Alien-Nation and Repatriation - Translating Identity in Caribbean Literature

Informationen zum Autor Patricia Joan Saunders is assistant professor of English at the University of Miami. She lives in Miami, Florida. Klappentext AlieNation and Repatriation is a critical examination of race, sexuality, gender and migration in Caribbean nationalist literatures. The more complex contribution made in this book, however, is its insistence on centering the philosophical implications of interpreting (or translating) black female subjectivity back into the literary landscapes of Caribbean literary and cultural texts from which they were erased or disciplined into silence. This book suggests that reading strategies reproduce hegemonic constructions of black women's identities and postionalities as subjects and citizens in Caribbean literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 The Trinidad Renaissance: Building a Nation, Building a Self Chapter 2 The Pleasures/Privileges of Location: Reading Race, Gender, and Sexuality in George Lamming'sWater with Berries Chapter 3 Gender and Genre: The Logic of Language and the Logistics of Identity Chapter 4 Routes and Roots: Race, Class, and the Meaning of Black Female Subjectivity Chapter 5 Boundaries, Borders, and the Unhoused: Re-Routing Black Identity in North America

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Joan Saunders
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2007
• EAN: 9780739114698
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1469-8
• No. of pages: 181
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Caribbean Studies (Lexington B; Caribbean Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies