Women Writing the West Indies, 1804-1939 - A Hot Place, Belonging to Us

Zusatztext 'The scope and depth of this book which covers much historical and social ground make it essential reading for students and academics.' - Michel Fabre! Revue AFRAM Review Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This pioneering study surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole, with special regard to 'race' and gender. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: &apos, E callaghan, Eve O&apos callaghan, callaghan Eve O&apos, O CALLAGHAN EVE O CALLAGHAN EVE, O&apos, Eve O'Callaghan, Evelyn O'Callaghan, O'Callaghan Eve, Eve O''callaghan O''callaghan Eve O''callaghan
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.08.2006
• EAN: 9780415418584
• ISBN: 978-0-415-41858-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Routledge Research in Postcolo; Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research