Evelyn O'Callaghan

Women Writing the West Indies, 1804-1939

'A Hot Place, Belonging to Us'

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 165mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780415288835
• ISBN-10: 0415288835
• Artikelnr.: 22480096

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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