Alien-nation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature

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Lexington Books, 2007 - 181 من الصفحات
Alien-Nation and Repatriation examines the emergence and transformations in representations of national identity in Anglophone Caribbean literary traditions. Beginning with the short fiction of C. L. R. James, Alfred Mendes, and Albert Gomes, this study examines the extent to which gender, migration, and female sexuality frame the earliest representations of Caribbean identity in literature by West Indian authors. The study develops chronologically to examine the works of George Lamming, Paule Marshall, Erna Brodber, M. Nourbese Philip, and Elizabeth Nunez. Alien-Nation and Repatriation emphasizes the processes of alienation that marginalize women from discourses of citizenship and belonging, both of which are integral aspects of nationalist literature. This text also argues that for Caribbean women writers engaged in discourses on citizenship, 'return' is not focused on reclaiming the nation-state. Instead Saunders argues that closer examinations of discourses on Caribbean identity reveal the ways in which the female body has been disciplined, through form and content, into silence in colonial and post-colonial Caribbean literary traditions.

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The Trinidad Renaissance Building a Nation Building a Self
25
The PleasuresPrivileges of Exile Recovering Race and Sexuality in The Pleasures of Exile and Water with Berries
57
Gender and Genre The Logic of Language and the Logistics of Identity
87
Routes and Roots Reinscribing the Meaning of Home
113
Boundaries Borders and the Unhoused ReRouting Black Identity in North America
131
Mapping Meaning and Identity
153
Bibliography
161
Index
175
About the Author
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الصفحة 2 - All nationalisms are gendered; all are invented; and all are dangerous — dangerous, not in Eric Hobsbawm's sense of having to be opposed but in the sense that they represent relations to political power and to the technologies of...

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Patricia Joan Saunders is assistant professor of English at the University of Miami. She lives in Miami, Florida.

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