LEADER 03321nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910810847503321 005 20240418045044.0 010 $a1-283-57922-7 010 $a0-8139-2672-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241538 035 $a(OCoLC)658148241 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10597148 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000752416 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11451734 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000752416 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10786029 035 $a(PQKB)11610047 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444056 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241538 100 $a20150424d2007|||| s|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNew World Studies : Vulnerable States : Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCharlottesville, VA, USA$cUniversity of Virginia Press$d20071201 210 $cUniversity of Virginia Press 215 $a1 online resource (271 p.) 225 0 $aNew World studies Vulnerable states 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8139-2646-7 327 $aCover -- 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. 330 $aWhile 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. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM$2bisac 606 $aCaribbean & Latin American$2bisac 606 $aCaribbean fiction (Spanish)$xHistory and criticism$y20th century 606 $aRomance Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aSpanish Literature$2HILCC 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM 615 7$aCaribbean & Latin American 615 0$aCaribbean fiction (Spanish)$xHistory and criticism 615 7$aRomance Literatures 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aSpanish Literature 676 $a863/.6409729 700 $aDe Ferrari$b Guillermina$0704695 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810847503321 996 $aNew World Studies : Vulnerable States : Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction$94031476 997 $aUNINA