03321nam 2200613 a 450 991081084750332120240418045044.01-283-57922-70-8139-2672-6(CKB)2670000000241538(OCoLC)658148241(CaPaEBR)ebrary10597148(SSID)ssj0000752416(PQKBManifestationID)11451734(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000752416(PQKBWorkID)10786029(PQKB)11610047(MiAaPQ)EBC3444056(EXLCZ)99267000000024153820150424d2007|||| s|| |engurcnu||||||||txtccrNew World Studies : Vulnerable States : Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction1st ed.Charlottesville, VA, USAUniversity of Virginia Press20071201University of Virginia Press1 online resource (271 p.) New World studies Vulnerable states Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8139-2646-7 Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Myth of the Vulnerable Body -- Chapter 1: Lurking Shadows: Ethnography, Colonialism, and Crime in Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnifique -- Chapter 2: Illness and Utopia in Severo Sarduy's Pájaros de la Playa -- Chapter 3: Coming of Age in the Tropics: Girlhood and the Making of the Colonial Body -- Chapter 4: Erotic Interventions: The Political and the Intimate in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother -- Chapter 5: Abjection and Aesthetic Violence in Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Trilogía sucia de La Habana -- Notes -- References -- Index.While vulnerability thus addresses the role historically played by race in determining systems of social and political powerlessness, it prefigures other ways in which Caribbeanness is currently negotiated at local and international levels, ranging from the stigmatization of the ill to the global fetishization of the region's physical beauty, material degradation, and political stagnation.Positioned at the intersection of literary and anthropological study, Vulnerable States will appeal to Caribbeanists of the three major language areas of the region as well as to postcolonial scholars interested in issues of race, gender, and nation formation.LITERARY CRITICISMbisacCaribbean & Latin AmericanbisacCaribbean fiction (Spanish)History and criticism20th centuryRomance LiteraturesHILCCLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCSpanish LiteratureHILCCLITERARY CRITICISMCaribbean & Latin AmericanCaribbean fiction (Spanish)History and criticismRomance LiteraturesLanguages & LiteraturesSpanish Literature863/.6409729De Ferrari Guillermina704695PQKBBOOK9910810847503321New World Studies : Vulnerable States : Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction4031476UNINA