Women writing the West Indies, 1804-1939 : a hot place, belonging to us / / Evelyn O'Callaghan

• Autore: O'Callaghan Evelyn
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: x, 224 p
• Disciplina: 810.9/9287/09729
• Soggetto topico: West Indian literature (English) - Women authors - History and criticism; Women - West Indies - Intellectual life; Women and literature - West Indies; Slavery in literature; Women in literature
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Defamiliarizing the mistress -- Representations of white women in the West Indies -- chapter 2 With the utmost familiarity -- Black and white women -- chapter 3 This is another world -- Travel narratives, women and the construction of tropical landscape -- chapter 4 A female El Dorado -- chapter Not at home: the in-betweenity of the white creole woman writer -- chapter 5 Narratives of tainted empire -- chapter 6 Colonial discourse and the subaltern's voice -- chapter Afterword.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women writing the west Indies, 1804-1939
• ISBN: 1-134-44096-0; 1-134-44097-9; 0-203-63377-6; 0-415-28883-5; 1-280-07404-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810509103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; ; 8.